American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Known as the "Father of the Science of Hydrostatics," he helped develop the barometer, pioneered hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics, leading to his discovery of "Pascal's Principle," the basis of hydraulics. He made invaluable contributions in the areas of probability and differential calculus, with the invention of Pascal's triangle for calculating the coefficients of a binomial expansion. His influential religious works, emphasizing "the reasons of the heart" over dry logic and intellect, were titled Lettres Provinciales, 1656-57, and Pensees Sur La Religion, published posthumously in 1670. In Pensees,...

Virginia House of Burgesses (1623) ordinance of Jamestown, legislation enacted requiring civil magistrates: <To see that the Sabbath was not profaned by working or any employments, or journeying from place to place.> 1623VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1623VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1623, ordinance of House of Burgesses, Jamestown, "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 2.

New Hampshire History (1622) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <On March 9, 1622, John Mason, called "the founder of New Hampshire," received a Grant from King James I. Samuel de Champlain had previously sailed along the New Hampshire coast in 1605, and Captain John Smith wrote of it in his Description of New England. In August 1622, John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges jointly received a grant. David Thomson, Sir Henry Roswell and Edward Hilton were granted land under the name of New Hampshire. The first settlement was by David...

Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1622-April 23, 1695) was an English physician and poet, who was born in Wales. After receiving an education at Jesus College, Oxford, he practiced medicine in Brecon. Many of his best poems, such as "The Retreate," "The Sap" and "I walkt the other day" are included in his collection titled, Silex Scintillans, 1655. In his poem, The Night, Henry Vaughan wrote: <Dear Night! This world's defeat; The stop to busy fool; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven...

Virginia Colony (March 22, 1622) was able to avert a threatened Indian attack due to the warning of a young Indian named "Chanco." On Jamestown Island, Virginia, the church marker stated: <In memory of Chanco, an Indian youth converted to Christianity, who resided in the household of Richard Pace across the river from Jamestown and who, on the eve of the Indian massacre of March 22, 1622, warned Pace of the murderous plot thus enabling Pace to cross the river in a canoe to alert and save the Jamestown settlement from impending disaster.> 1622VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer,...