American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Nahum Tate (1652-July 30, 1715) was honored by England's royalty with the title of poet-laureate, December 24, 1692. He was acclaimed for his version of Shakespeare's King Lear, and for co- authoring Dryden's Absalom and Achitopel. In 1700, in his Christmas Hymn, Nahum Tate wrote: <While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around.> 1652NT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1652NT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Nahum Tate, 1700, in his Christmas Hymn,...

John Clark (October 8, 1609-April 20, 1676) was a medical doctor, Baptist minister and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island. In 1651, John Clarke wrote "Ill News From New England Or A Narrative Of New England's Persecution," after the whipping of Baptist Obadiah Holmes in Lynn, Massachusetts: <No such believer, or servant of Christ Jesus, has any liberty, much less authority from his Lord, to smite his fellow servant, nor yet with outward force, or arm of flesh, to constrain or restrain his Conscience, no nor yet his outward man for Conscience sake, or worship of his God, where injury...

William Dampier (August 1651-March 1757) was an English explorer and privateer, exploring the coasts of Australia, New Guinea and New Britain. In his popular book, A New Voyage Around the World, (1657), William Dampier recorded he: <Gave continual thanks to Almighty God...for His wonderful deliverance from so many and great dangers.... The various and wonderful Works of God in different Parts of the World.> 1651WD001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1651WD001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Dampier, 1657, in his popular book, A New Voyage Around...

Sir William Phips (February 2, 1651-February 18, 1695) was a colonial Governor of Massachusetts, 1692-95, who, during the French and Indian Wars, led the troops to capture the French colony of Port Royal. He stated: <I have divers times been in danger of my life; and I have been brought to see that I owe my life to Him who has given His precious life for me. I thank God He has led me to see myself altogether unhappy without an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to close heartily with Him, desiring Him to execute all His offices on...

Assembly of Maryland (1650) passed a Eulogy Proclamation honoring Leonard Calvert, who had died three years earlier:  <Great and manifold are the benefits wherewith Almighty God hath blessed this colony, first brought and landed within the province of Maryland, at your lordship's charge, and continued by your care and industry, in the happy restitution of a blessed peace unto us, being lately wasted by a miserable dissension and unhappy war. But more estimable are the blessings poured on this province, in planting Christianity among a people that knew not God, nor had heard of Christ. All which, we recognize and acknowledge...