. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . f that class of lay-men in the foremost ranks of which stood Otis andHancock and Samuel Adams. Yet his spiritunl in-fluence was as great as ever. He was still a memberof the most learned and respected class in a commu-nity by no means ignorant. He was a divine, andcame of a family of divines. Not a few of thepreachers who witnessed the Revolution could tracedescent through an unbroken line of ministers, stretch-ing back from son to father for
. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . f that class of lay-men in the foremost ranks of which stood Otis andHancock and Samuel Adams. Yet his spiritunl in-fluence was as great as ever. He was still a memberof the most learned and respected class in a commu-nity by no means ignorant. He was a divine, andcame of a family of divines. Not a few of thepreachers who witnessed the Revolution could tracedescent through an unbroken line of ministers, stretch-ing back from son to father for three generations, tosome canting, psalm-singing Puritan who bore armswith distinction on the great day at Naseby, or hadprayed at the head of Olivers troops, and had, at therestoration, when the old soldiers of the protectorwere turning their swords into reaping-hooks andtheir pikes into pruning-knives, come over to NewEngland to seek that liberty of worship not to befound at home. Such a man had usually receivedan education at Harvard or at Yale, and would inthese days be thought a scholar of high attainments. * Copyright, D. Appleton &
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