Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . eputation as an accurate chronicler. In 1787, Dr, Belknap was called to thepastoral charge of a congregational church in Boston, and there he spent theremainder of his years, a faithful minister and an assiduous student. The fieldsof literature had great charms for him, and in pursuit of the pleasures to be foundtherein, he spent much time. The last literary labor of his life was an AmericanBiography, in which he exhibited much patient research and
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . eputation as an accurate chronicler. In 1787, Dr, Belknap was called to thepastoral charge of a congregational church in Boston, and there he spent theremainder of his years, a faithful minister and an assiduous student. The fieldsof literature had great charms for him, and in pursuit of the pleasures to be foundtherein, he spent much time. The last literary labor of his life was an AmericanBiography, in which he exhibited much patient research and careful did not live to complete it, for, in June, 1798, he was suddenly prostratedby paralysis of the whole system, and died on the 20th of that month, at theage of fifty-four years. He experienced the privUege for which he aspired,as expressed in the following lines, found among his papers: • When faith and patience, hope and love,Have made us meet for heaven above,How blest the privilege to rise,Snatched, in a moment, to the skies !Unconscious to resign our breath,Nor taste the bitterness of death. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 105.
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