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...other ministers who also show "the vast political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel...
...recent meeting of the Yale Alumni Association in New York, Chauncey M. Depew, its newly elected president, said in the course of his address...
Charles Thornton Adams, Richard Seabrook Albert, Andrew Hussey Allen, William Ethan Allen, William Hall Allen, Willis Boyd Allen, Edward Richardson Bacon, Edwin Swift Balch, William Amos Bancroft, Charles Foster Batchelder, William Zebina Bennett, Frederic Ogden de Billier, Charles Chauncey Binney, Emmons Blaine, Lafayette Gilbert Blair, Warren Kendall Blodgett, George Keely Boutelle, Arthur Henry Brown, George Henry Browne, William Henry Brune, Howard Mendenhall Buck, Stephen Bullard, Herbert Channing Burdett, Charles Abernethy Catlin, Eugene Tyler Chamberlain Charles Frederic Chamberlayne, Edward Perkins Channing, George Locke Cheney, Herbert Morison Clarke, Edward Howard Cobb, Charles Rich Comey, Osborne Sargent Curtis, Arthur Percy Cushing. Charles Daniels...
FROM the "Letters" collected by Professor Thayer, we glean some interesting facts about the college life of the man pronounced by the London Academy "one of the finest philosophical minds which America or any country has produced," - Chauncey Wright...
...Indeed, it seemed at one time as if his shortcomings in this study would hinder him from entering. Means were taken to secure his admission that in these stern days would hardly be thought efficacious: "I have seen the President," writes a lady, "and said all I could for Chauncey, and I have no doubt he will get in." The lady's influence, however, was not strong enough to get him in without conditions...