 | George Berkeley - 1901 - 638 pages
...final ruin.' SECOND PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP 1722-1733 A PROPOSAL FOR THE BETTER SUPPLYING OF CHURCHES IN OUR FOREIGN PLANTATIONS AND FOR CONVERTING THE SAVAGE...IN THE SUMMER ISLANDS OTHERWISE CALLED THE ISLES OF BERMUDAS ' The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few.'—LUKE x. a. First published in... | |
 | Addison Emery Verrill - 1902 - 644 pages
...antiquated. Historical. Berkeley, Bishop Georye. — A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our foreign Plantations, and for converting the savage...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...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... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 pages
...in opposition. Berkeley's plan is outlined in his "Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations and for Converting the Savage...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 Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1905 - 388 pages
...before, 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 pages
...the 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... | |
 | John Daniel Crimmins - 1905 - 532 pages
...conversion of the American Indians to Christianity. He was the author of a pamphlet entitled : " A Proposal for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity,...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - 1905 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | George Watson Cole - 1907 - 316 pages
...(5« No. 997). Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne. A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage...the Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of the Bermuda. London, 1724. 8°. 22 pp. (1309) NOTE.—" 2d Ed., 24 pp., 1725. Reprinted by several... | |
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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,... 
