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See also: DWIGHT, See also:TIMOTHY (1752-1817) , See also:American divine, writer, and educationalist, was See also:horn at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 14th of May 1752. His See also:father, Timothy Dwight, a See also:graduate of Yale See also:College (1744), was a See also:merchant, and his See also:mother was the third daughter of See also:Jonathan See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards. He was remarkably precocious, and is said to have learned the See also:alphabet at a single See also:lesson, and to have been able to read the See also:Bible before hewas four years old. In 1769 he graduated at Yale College, and then for two years taught in a See also:grammar school at New Haven. He was a See also:tutor in Yale College from 1771 to 1777; and then, having been licensed to preach, was a See also:chaplain for a See also:year in a See also:regiment of troops engaged in the See also:War of See also:Independence, inspiring the troops both by his sermons and by several stirring war songs, the most famous of which is " See also:Columbia." From 1778 until 1783 he lived at Northampton, studying, farming, See also:preaching, and dabbling in politics. From 1783 until 1795 he was pastor of the Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Greenfield See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:Connecticut, where he opened an See also:academy which at once acquired a high reputation and attracted pupils from all parts of the See also:Union. From 1795 until his See also:death at See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the Irth of See also:January 1817, he was See also:president of Yale College, and by his judicious management, by his remarkable ability as a teacher—he taught a variety of subjects, including See also:theology, See also:metaphysics, See also:logic, literature and See also:oratory,—and by his force of See also:character and magnetic See also:personality, won See also:great popularity and See also:influence, and restored that institution to the high See also:place from which it had fallen before his See also:appointment. President Dwight was also well known as an author. In See also:verse he wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The See also:Conquest of See also:Canaan, finished in 1774, but not published until 1785; a somewhat ponderous and See also:solemn See also:satire, The See also:Triumph of Infidelity (1788), directed against See also:Hume, See also:Voltaire and others; Greenfield Hill (1794), the See also:suggestion for which seems to have been derived from See also:John See also:Denham's See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper's Hill; and a number of See also:minor poems and See also:hymns, the best known of which is that beginning "I love thy See also:kingdom, See also:Lord." Many of his sermons were published posthumously under the titles Theology Explained and Defended (5 vols., 1818-1819), to which a memoir of the author by his two sons, W. T. and Sereno E. Dwight, is prefixed, and Sermons by Timothy Dwight (2 vols., 1828), which had a large circulation both in the See also:United States and in See also:England. Probably his most important See also:work, however, is his Travels in New England and New See also:York (4 vols., 1821-1822), which contains much material of value concerning social and economic New England and New York during the See also:period 1796-1817.
See W. B. Sprague's " See also: Life of Timothy Dwight " in vol. iv. (second See also:series) of Jared See also:Sparks's Library of American See also:Biography, and especially an excellent See also:chapter in See also:Moses Coit See also:Tyler's Three Men of Letters (New York, 1895).
His fifth son, SERENO EDWARDS DWIGHT (1786-1850), See also:born in Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, graduated at Yale in 1803, was a tutor there in 18o6-181o, and successfully practised See also:law in New Haven in 1810-1816. Licensed to preach in 1816, he was the chaplain of the United States See also:Senate for one year, was pastor of the See also:Park See also:Street church, See also:Boston, in 1817-1826, and in 1833-1835 was president of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton College, See also:Clinton, New York. His career was wrecked by accidental See also:mercury poisoning, which interfered with his work in Boston and at Hamilton College, and made his life after 1839 solitary and comparatively uninfluential. His publications include Life and See also:Works of Jonathan Edwards (10 vols., 183o); The See also:Hebrew Wife (1836), an See also:argument against See also:marriage with a deceased wife's See also:sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a See also:biographical See also:sketch by his See also:brother See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Dwight (1795-1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.
President Dwight's See also:grandson, TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1828- ), a famous preacher and educationalist, was born at See also:Norwich, Connecticut, on the 16th of See also:November 1828. He graduated at Yale in 1849, continued his studies there and at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin, was See also:professor of sacred literature and New Testament See also:Greek in the Yale Divinity School from 1858 to 1886, was licensed to preach in 1861, and from 1886 to 1899 was president of Yale, which during his See also:administration greatly prospered and became in name and in fact a university. Dr Dwight was also a member in 1876-1885 of the American See also:committee for the revision of the See also:English Bible, was an editor from 1866 to 1874 of the New Englander, which later became the Yale See also:Review, and besides editing and annotating several volumes of the English See also:translation of H. A. W. See also: Meyer's Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, and See also:writing many See also:magazine articles, published a
collection of sermons entitled Thoughts of and for the Inner Life (1899).
End of Article: DWIGHT, TIMOTHY (1752-1817)
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