Excerpt from Presbyterianism, and Its Services in the Revolution of 1776: A Discourse Among the countless events of history there are those which stand as milestones along the highway of human progress. Though, at the period of their occurrence, few discern their Significance and none their proper magni tude, vet, as time rolls on, their import emerges to View, and men see that God was in them. They make or mark a historic epoch; in them the pen dulum of time swings through one of its sweeping oscilla tions in them the ...
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Excerpt from Presbyterianism, and Its Services in the Revolution of 1776: A Discourse Among the countless events of history there are those which stand as milestones along the highway of human progress. Though, at the period of their occurrence, few discern their Significance and none their proper magni tude, vet, as time rolls on, their import emerges to View, and men see that God was in them. They make or mark a historic epoch; in them the pen dulum of time swings through one of its sweeping oscilla tions in them the clock of time strikes another hour. The event may occur in the recesses ofa human mind as when Galileo discovered the principle of the pendulum in the swaying to and fro of the chandelier in the old Cathedral at Pisa; or, as when the apple, falling from the tree in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, set the mind of Newton at work upon the great principle of gravitation: or, as when Morse, applying the principles of electricity, gave to the world the Electric Telegraph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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