Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White

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Excerpt from Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White: Prepared Agreeably to a Resolution of the Massachusetts Historical Society This narrative. From which we shall borrow largely, was written during the winter of 1836 - 7. It fills two hundred and fifty pages, terminating with his college life in 1797. Much of it is little more than an expansion of a journal which he seems to have kept, with more or less regularity, from his schoolboy-days. T The title of this pamphlet reads thus: Some Farraginous Remarks upon an Act for the Due Observation of the Lord's Day. By a Lover of the Truth. Printed by E. Russell, at Concord, for J. Haynes of Haverhill. To indicate its spirit, we give a single passage: Not many of the people know but they are keeping the Jewish sabbath still, nor do they desire to know: and it seems that the clergy does not desire that they should know. And it seems as though some of the clergy don't know it them selves, and may think that ignorance is the best mother of devotion, and brings to them the most gain: and the people seem to be afraid that they shall know more than their teachers, and, when any one attempts to inform them, they are offended. So, it seems, these remarks can't be popular. P. 18. The following is from a manuscript note by Judge White: Upon the passage of the act of the General Court respecting the sabbath, in 1792, my grandfather, then almost eighty years old, was greatly excited, and set about writing these strictures, which sufficiently show his views on the subject. I was then just entering college, and well remember, that, upon my frequent visits to him, the burden of his conversation was about the 'pharisaical General Court, ' as proved by their notions of the sabbath, - a Jewish sabbath, as he maintained. He speaks of him, in the same note, as a venerable and excellent relative, a man of great integrity and benevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.