American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775-September 17, 1864) was an English author and poet. His best-known work, Imaginary Conversations, was published between 1824-29. Walter Savage Landor declared: <To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.> 1775WL001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1775WL001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Walter Savage Landor. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts-A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H....

Andre Marie Ampere (January 22, 1775-June 10, 1836) was a French electrician and scientific writer. He discovered the relationship between magnetism and electricity, and defined a unit to measure the strength of an electric current. (Amperes equals volts divided by ohms.) Ampere wrote on a piece of paper before his death: <Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human...

Sir Charles Bell (November 1774-April 28, 1842) was a great anatomist and surgeon. He was professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in England and author of numerous volumes. The title of one of his treatise was: <The Hand; Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments, and Evincing Design, and Illustrating the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God.> 1774CB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1774CB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Charles Bell, in his work titled, Bridgewater Treatise. Henry M. Morris, Men of Science-men of God...

Massachusetts Provincial Congress (October 22, 1774) concurred with the declaration of its President, John Hancock: <We think it is incumbent upon this people to humble themselves before God on account of their sins, for He hath been pleased in His righteous judgment to suffer a great calamity to befall us, as the present controversy between Great Britain and the Colonies. [And] also to implore the Divine Blessing upon us, that by the assistance of His grace, we may be enabled to reform whatever is amiss among us, that so God may be pleased to continue to us the blessings we...

Continental Congress (October 14, 1774) passed Declaration and Resolves: <Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various presences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies, established a board of commissioners, with unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty, not only for collecting the said duties, but for the trial of causes...