. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . earned German wife he owed the publication ofthe volume on Physical Geography. His great project wasbroken off, but his work had been so thorough and funda-mental that it has remained a monument of Americanresearch, scholarship, and exploration. These men, who contributed so largely to the advance-ment and renown of American Biblical scholarship, recom-mended the cause of learning to all men by the uprightnessof their daily lives. The influence of Kingsley on the char-acter of Yale College has been pointed out; Eli S
. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . earned German wife he owed the publication ofthe volume on Physical Geography. His great project wasbroken off, but his work had been so thorough and funda-mental that it has remained a monument of Americanresearch, scholarship, and exploration. These men, who contributed so largely to the advance-ment and renown of American Biblical scholarship, recom-mended the cause of learning to all men by the uprightnessof their daily lives. The influence of Kingsley on the char-acter of Yale College has been pointed out; Eli Smith stillbrings honor to the name of missionary; and what Andoverwould have been without Stuart and Robinson, it is hard toimagine. In keeping with the prevalent interest in divines and divin-ity was the work of William Buel Sprague, a native ofAndover, who graduated from Yale in 1815, just whenthe splendor of pulpit eloquence was potent in publicaffairs. Himself a successful preacher for forty years, receiv-ing degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, his environ- 290. CONNECTICUT AS A STATE ment enabled him to collect the material for the nine volumesof his Annals of the American Pulpit. This work occu-pied twelve years, and secured in permanent form preciousbiographical material. Dr. Sprague was a famous collectorof religious pamphlets, with which he enriched the AlbanyState Library. To Amherst College he presented the let-ters of its patron saint. General Lord Amherst; and to Har-vard College, the papers of General Thomas Gage. Hiscollection of nearly 100,000 autographs is said to be thelargest in the world. Another voluminous treasurer of annals and memories ofthe past was Jared Sparks, who was born in Willington,shortly after the first inauguration of Washington, whoselife he was to write. After some years of teaching, editing,and preaching, he became the editor of the North AmericanReview, finally purchasing and conducting it from 1824 to1831. In 1821, being chaplain
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