 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 Seiten
...more in Ireland, and three years later he was made Dean of Derry. But his heart was set on a ' Scheme for converting the savage Americans to Christianity...by a College to be erected in the Summer Islands,' ie. the Bermudas. He came to London to urge his plans, and every obstacle yielded to the charm of his... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1901 - 628 Seiten
...AUTHORSHIP 1722-1733 A PROPOSAL FOR THE BETTER SUPPLYING OF CHURCHES IN OUR FOREIGN PLANTATIONS AND FOR CONVERTING THE SAVAGE AMERICANS TO CHRISTIANITY...IN THE SUMMER ISLANDS OTHERWISE CALLED THE ISLES OF BERMUDAS EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COLLEGE IN BERMUDA THE Essay towards preventing the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...secured for him the deanery of Deny. The benevolent philosopher had long been cherishing ' a scheme for converting the savage Americans to Christianity,...Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda.' In this college he most ' exhorbitantly proposed,' as Swift commented, ' a whole hundred pounds a year... | |
 | Addison Emery Verrill - 1902 - 644 Seiten
...Bishop Georye. — A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our foreign Plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity,...the Summer islands, otherwise called the isles of the Bermuda. London, 1st. ed., 22 pp., 1724, Oranges, p. 12; 2d. ed., 24pp., 1725. Reprinted by several... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 Seiten
...his chaplain, and in 1724 gave him the Deanery of Derry, worth .£ 1,100 (say $20,000) a year. scheme for converting the savage Americans to Christianity...Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda." The plan found immense favor, and abundant promises of pecuniary support. Sir Robert Walpole, the British... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 Seiten
...plan is outlined in his "Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity...Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda." Shortly after the publication of the pamphlet, a royal charter was granted him, for St. Paul's College,... | |
 | John Daniel Crimmins - 1905 - 532 Seiten
...the conversion of the American Indians to Christianity. He was the author of a pamphlet entitled : " A Proposal for Converting the Savage Americans to...Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda." The British parliament voted him £10,000, as an instalment, to be paid him when the projected college... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1905 - 388 Seiten
...was to have joined him again at the Bermudas. Lawrence Washington, however, hurried home to die. and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity,...Summer islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda.' Well situated, health}., and secure, the little group of islands seemed to the Dean of Derry (as he... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1905 - 392 Seiten
...reorganized French East India Company (1784) may be compared. See vol. i. of this work, p. 150. and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity,...Summer islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda.' Well situated, healthy, and secure, the little group of islands seemed to the Dean of Deny (as he then... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - 1905 - 530 Seiten
...A Proposal for the Better Supply of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for the converting of the savage Americans to Christianity, by a College...Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda,"* and, in accordance with the views therein explained, had applied to the Government of that day for... | |
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A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 •'[ Fothergill,... 
