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Hace 23 horas · 1727–1820. William Ellery was a Founding Father and Signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a delegate from Rhode Island. His career included roles as a customs collector and commissioner of the Continental Loan Office. Ellery remained active in public service and scholarly pursuits until he died in 1820, at the age of 92.
Hace 1 día · The year was 1838. In Boston, Massachusetts, the Rev. William Ellery Channing, one of the founders of my own Unitarian Universalist religious tradition, delivered a speech on self-improvement to ...
Hace 23 horas · William Ellery Channing distinguished carefully between the autocracy of Roman power and the great moral achievements of the Catholic people, attacking one with bitter irony and praising the other with a sincere tribute. Theodore Parker, nineteenth-century Unitarian, centered his attack on the political and educational policies of the hierarchy
Hace 5 días · The first great apostasy was the declension of evangelical zeal among the New England Puritans. It sparked, by reaction, the Great Awakening. The second great apostasy grew out of that, beginning with the growth of Arminianism among the erstwhile Puritans and culminating in appointment of Henry Ellery Channing to the theology chair at that formerly Puritan institution known as Harvard.
Hace 23 horas · It was here, in America, that human freedom would either reach its zenith or wither and die. “We cannot admit the thought, that this country is to be only a repetition of the old world,” wrote William Ellery Channing, a leading Unitarian preacher and theologian, in 1830.
Hace 1 día · In February 1852 Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Ellery Channing edited the collected works and letters of Margaret Fuller, who died in 1850. In the week of her death, her editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley suggested to Emerson that a biography of Fuller, to be called Margaret and Her Friends, be prepared quickly "before ...
Hace 4 días · Six people were selected in 1950: Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Graham Bell, Josiah Willard Gibbs, William C. Gorgas, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Bell's and Gorgas's busts were dedicated in 1951, followed by those of Anthony and Payne in 1952 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1954.
