 | 1894 - 532 páginas
...this worthy man wrote thus to a friend in London in reference to a revised edition of this book — "I desire to see it done before I die and I am so...that is able to compose the sheets and correct the form with understanding." James was sometimes teacher, both at Nassanawisit and Chaubunagungamaug,... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1894 - 560 páginas
...this worthy man wrote thus to a friend in London in reference to a revised edition of this book — " I desire to see it done before I die and I am so deep...that is able to compose the sheets and correct the form with understanding." James was sometimes teacher, both at Nassanawisit and Chaubunagungamaug,... | |
 | John Wright - 1896 - 838 páginas
...progress necdeth :m apology, we have last year been much hindered by sickness, — I desire to sec it dour before I die, and I am so deep in years that I cannot expert to live long — besides we have but one man the Indian printer who is able to compose the sheet... | |
 | Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson, Ellsworth Eliot, George Edwin Eliot - 1905 - 414 páginas
...which I travel about, is, the printing of the Old Testament, that they may have the whole Bible ... I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...sheets, and correct the press with understanding". May 29. "We (the Commissioners of the United Colonies) have also found it needful to allow Reverend... | |
 | Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt - 1905 - 72 páginas
...wrote to a friend in London in regard to a revised edition of the Indian Bible, " we have but one man, the Indian printer, that is able to compose the sheets and correct the press with understanding. ' ' This man was James the Printer, from Hassanamissit (Graf ton). I have also attempted to suggest... | |
 | George Emery Littlefield - 1907 - 256 páginas
...Bible, 1680-1685. In 1683, in writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle at London, Rev. John Eliot says : " I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...sheets, and correct the press with understanding." He is supposed to have been employed by the Greens in printing all their Indian publications, [ 77... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - 1910 - 548 páginas
...depend on James-the-printer. In 1683, in writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle at London, Mr. Eliot says, 'I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so [371] It was through the train of events enumerated in this chapter that one is led to a consideration... | |
 | James Douglas - 1913 - 680 páginas
...Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen: "We have but one man, viz., the Indian Printer, who is able to compose the sheets and correct the Press with understanding." He was an educated Indian, who had been an apprentice of Green, when printing the first edition of... | |
 | Sydney Gould - 1917 - 314 páginas
...to the Hon. Robert Boyle, concerning the printing of the second edition of his famous Indian Bible: "I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...sheets, and correct the press with understanding." The Indian Printer, or James Printer, or James-the-Printer—for his name or title appears in all three... | |
 | 1837 - 658 páginas
...depart joyfully, may I but leave the Bible among them ; for it is tbe word of life." And in another, " I desire to see it done before I die ; and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long ; and sundry say, if 1 do not procure it printed while I live, it is not within the prospect of human... | |
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I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian Printer, that is able to compose the sheets, and correct the press with understanding. 
