American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740-October 24, 1821) was the President of the Continental Congress, 1782-83. He became a U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1789-95, and helped frame the Bill of Rights. He was the Director of the U.S. Mint under Presidents George Washington and John Adams, 1795-97. He became a Christian during the Great Awakening, and was baptized by the Rev. George Whitfield. He helped found and served as the first President of the American Bible Society, 1816-21. On July 4, 1783, in an address given in New Jersey, Dr. Elias Boudinot stated: <No sooner had the great Creator of the...

Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740-August 11, 1778) composed the hymn, Rock of Ages, which originally appeared in the Gospel Magazine, October of 1775: <Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.> 1740AT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1740AT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Augustus Montague Toplady,October 1775, published the hymn, Rock of Ages, in the Gospel Magazine. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 386.

Jonathan French (January 30, 1740-1809) was a pastor at South Church, Andover, 1772-1809, and was a trustee of Phillips Academy. He had served as a drummer during the Revolutionary War, and at Castle William in Boston Harbor. In June of 1746, French Duke of d'Anville sailed for New England, commanding the most powerful fleet of the time-70 ships with 13,000 troops, a full one half the French navy. He intended to recapture Louisburg, Nova Scotia, and destroy from Boston to New York, all the way to Georgia. Massachusetts Governor William Shirley declared a Day of Fasting on October 16, 1746,...

New Guide to the English Tongue (1740) was published first in England by Thomas Dilworth, a distinguished educator and textbook writer. The book's popularity grew in the Colonies, until, by 1765, it was universally adopted in the New England schools. The book contained spelling, reading and grammar lessons, "adorned with proper Scriptures." Its first lesson, having words only three letters long or less, stated: <No Man may put off the Law of God. The Way of God is no ill Way. My Joy is in God all the Day. A bad Man is a Foe to God.> 1740ET001 Noah Webster,...

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (December 14, 1739-August 7, 1817) was a French-born American economist and politician. Along with his son, Eleuthere Irenee, he founded the E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, 1802, near Wilmington, Delaware. They began to produce a higher quality gun- powder which caused their company, especially after the War of 1812, to grow rapidly, eventually becoming the industrial giant of DuPont Industries. Thomas Jefferson had commissioned DuPont de Nemours to survey and report on the status of American education in the early 1800's. He reported: <Most young Americans...can read, write and cipher. Not more than...