This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850* edition. Excerpt: ...exceptions, but my inquiries and observations in every part of my route have led me to a confident conclusion as to the general fact."--Hodgson. No one of distinctness of the fact, if we mention the annual increase of some of the principal denominations: --the Presbyterian official reports for 1831 exhibit a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850* edition. Excerpt: ...exceptions, but my inquiries and observations in every part of my route have led me to a confident conclusion as to the general fact."--Hodgson. No one of distinctness of the fact, if we mention the annual increase of some of the principal denominations: --the Presbyterian official reports for 1831 exhibit a clear increase of nearly 20,000 communicants during the year; the Congregationalists have had an equal number of accessions; and the Baptist denomination, as far as can be ascertained, experienced an increase of about 10,000 members during the same period. But, perhaps the religion thus disseminated is of a spurious and unsatisfactory kind; perhaps, without the pressure of ecclesiastical authority in matters of faith, religious excitement may have run wild, and generated forms of superstition and error, fantastic beyond all former example. Open as the bosom of the states has been to the reception and unshackled utterance of all diversities of opinion from all quarters of the world, it could have been no matter of surprise if this had been the case; but while some of the numerous sects are certainly singular enough, and some may, perhaps, be peculiar to the republic, its condition in this respect presents nothing at all extraordinary.--It is well known that sects do not exist only in America. Their number on that side of the Atlantic does not appear to exceed those which exist in our own country, and they are far fewer than those which have been generated in the bosom of the Romish church, and cloaked in the mantle of her infallibility. For nearly the whole of its diversities the Union is indebted to other countries; and if in any case a vagary of religious enthusiasm has shown itself in America to which Europe is a stranger, how many forms of...
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Very good. With Additions and Corrections, by Samuel L. Knapp; and a Continuation to the Present Time, by John Overton Choules. numerous fine steel engraved plates and portraits. 2 vols., very thick 4to, original full brown morocco with gilt decoration, a.e.g.; (lightly rubbed, otherwise very good). Boston: Walker & White, 1855. Very good (+). Howes H-512.
Add this copy of The History and Topography of the United States of to cart. $1,002.50, very good condition, Sold by Griffin Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stamford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1850 by J & F. Tallis, London, Edinburg & Dublin.
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01/1850
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Very Good. 1850 Tallis 6 volumes bound into 2 vols, 3/4 leather over marbleized boards. 7 hand colored maps 56 plates ownership ink to flyleafs and book dealership pencil. Tight bindings, text unmarked. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
