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Charles Nisbet was born on January 21, 1736 in Haddington, Scotland. He was the son of William and Alison Nisbet.
Graduating from the University of Edinburgh at the age of eighteen, Nisbet studied theology for six years at Divinity Hall. In 1783 the College of New Jersey conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1760 Nisbet was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh. After preaching for two years in Glasgow, on May 17, 1764, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Brechin and installed as pastor at Montrose.
He soon rose to an influential position in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, participating freely in discussion as a champion of strict Calvinistic theology.
Nisbet ardently defended the cause of the American Colonies in the Revolutionary struggle. This fact together with his renown as a scholar led Benjamin Rush and John Dickinson, in 1784, to offer him the presidency of Dickinson College at Carlisle, chartered in 1783. After considerable urging, he accepted the invitation and arrived in Philadelphia, June 9, 1785. The bright prospects with which he entered upon his duties were soon obscured. A lingering fever fastened upon his body, while the poverty, demoralization, and gloom of the post-war period depressed his spirit.
Within a few months he resigned, intending to return to Scotland, but a strong prejudice of his own forbade his sailing in a vessel commanded by an Irish captain. In the ensuing delay his health so improved that he consented to an unanimous reelection, and served at his post with unabating vigor until his death eighteen years later.
As college president Nisbet lectured on logic, mental and moral philosophy, and belles-lettres, and in addition, for the accommodation of students for the ministry, he prepared and delivered a course of 418 lectures on systematic theology and twenty-two lectures on pastoral theology.
Many of Nisbet's classroom lectures are preserved in manuscript in the Museum of Dickinson College.
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Nisbet was anti-republican, had no faith in American institutions, did not believe in their stability. The class was good-natured about such utterances, but would not write them down; against such views from any other professor they would have rebelled.
Nisbet possessed natural abilities of a high order, enhanced by an extraordinary memory.
In the solidity and variety of his erudition he excelled most of the learned men of his age; he was master of nine languages, ancient and modern, was versed in their literatures, and was equally distinguished for his acquirements in sacred and secular knowledge. His manner of speaking was calm and dignified, his style clear and direct; he appealed to intelligent and serious minds. He was a man of fixed habits and prejudices, outspoken in his opinions and inclined to caustic expression. According to Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court, who was a student under the Scotch divine, Nisbet's classes were warmly and affectionately attached to him. He was cheerful and animated, full of anecdote and classical allusion, seasoned with playful and lively wit. His sarcasm and wit were at times severe and cut deep. His lectures were written out and read slowly that the students might copy them. In his examinations he always preferred an answer in the student's own language, though it might not be as accurate; his object was to teach the student to study, to think, to reason, to form an opinion.
Nisbet was of portly habit and florid complexion. In his youth he was remarkable for physical agility and endurance, frequently jogging twenty miles before breakfast as a morning exercise.
In 1766 he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Tweedie of Quarter, by whom he had four children.