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Samuel Devies was born on November 3, 1723 in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. He was the son of David and Martha (Thomas) Davies, both of Welsh extraction.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T054779 Dedication signed: Dennis de Berdt. London : printed for J. Buckland; J. Ward; and T. Field, 1758. 4,36p. ; 12°
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Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880. He joined the Manhattan and New York chess clubs, and soon became champion of the latter, representing it at the British Chess Association Congress in London in 1886. Naturalized in 1888, he was the highest-placed American in the Sixth American Chess Congress the following year. In 1892 he defeated Jackson Showalter to become American champion. Suffering from tuberculosis in 1895, he lost a championship match to Showalter. Searching for a cure, he went to Germany in 1904 and died there late the following year. This book gives an account of Lipschutz's chess career, life and milieu and addresses questions surrounding his first name, his periods away from New York and misconceptions concerning the American championship. There are 249 games included.
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Samuel Devies was born on November 3, 1723 in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. He was the son of David and Martha (Thomas) Davies, both of Welsh extraction.
His mother early determined that the boy should be trained for the ministry, and with that end in view Davies was enrolled in the famous school of Samuel Blair at Fagg’s Manor, Pennsylvania, United States.
Davies was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle on July 30, 1746. Ordained as an evangelist on February 19, 1747, he was forthwith sent to Virginia on evangelical service.
In Virginia dissenters were frowned upon, and the activities of their preachers were made the subject of strict surveillance.
When Davies settled in Hanover County there were many suits in court against Presbyterians for holding forbidden assemblies and preaching without license the non-conformists his own, and was soon regarded as the advocate and defender of their civil rights and liberties. Though always in feeble health he spared neither his body nor his time in his proselytizing efforts. Almost single-handed he built up a strong Presbyterian membership in Virginia.
He conducted services in seven houses of worship scattered through five counties; and in addition traveled over the whole state organizing revival meetings. He was “the animating soul of the whole dissenting interest in Virginia and North Carolina”.
In 1753, with Gilbert Tennant, he was commissioned by the Synod of New York to go to the British Isles and endeavor to raise funds for the College of New Jersey, which since its inception in 1747 had been in straitened circumstances. The envoys were eminently successful. Over £3, 000 were raised; the larger portion among loyal Presbyterians of Scotland. To Davies, despite his youth, for he was but thirty, came renown. In England and Scotland he delivered some sixty sermons, many of which were distributed and widely read. As a result of his work for the college he became intimately associated with Jonathan Edwards, Aaron Burr, Sr. , and others of its supporters.
Immediately after his journey he returned to Virginia, where in the latter part of 1755, largely through his instrumentality, the Presbytery of Hanover, the first presbytery in Viginia, was founded. Two years later occurred the death of President Burr of the College of New Jersey, and within a few weeks that of his successor, Jonathan Edwards. The trustees, after a considerable delay, elected Samuel Davies to the presidency. He felt constrained for a time to reject the offer, since faction was rife among the trustees, but finally, yielding to their importunities, he took office on July 26, 1759. On February 4, 1761, he died of pneumonia. During his brief regime, however, he inaugurated several important changes. The standard for the bachelor’s degree was raised and the requirements for admission were strengthened. Plans for a more suitable library were made, but these were interrupted by his death.
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On October 23, 1746 Davies married Sarah Kirkpatrick. His first wife having died, on October 4, 1748, he was married to Jean, daughter of John Holt of Hanover County, Virginia.