A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Dickinson, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1688-1747. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief American
theologians of his day, and the first president of the College of New
Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and much
given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works
are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion;
Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. _See Tyler’s
American Literature._

=Dickinson, Richard William.= _N. Y._, 1804-1874. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from
the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of
John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically
Viewed.

=Dickinson, Rodolphus.= _Ms._, 1787-1863. An Episcopal clergyman in
Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised New and
Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and Statistical
View of Massachusetts.

=Dickson, Andrew Flinn.= _S. C._, 1825-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; The
Light, is it Waning?

=Dickson, John.= _N. H._, 1783-1852. A New York congressman, early
prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation of
Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.

=Dickson, Samuel Henry.= _S. C._, 1798-1872. A physician of eminence
in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858 to
1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote
much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly
admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation
of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its
History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of
Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology
and Therapeutics. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries._

=Didier= [dy´deer], =Eugene Lemoine.= _Md._, 1838- ----. Son of F. J.
Didier, _infra_. A Baltimore littérateur whose style as a critic is
somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte;
Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine
(1884). _Scr._

=Didier, Franklin James.= _Md._, 1794-1840. A Baltimore physician who
was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris; Franklin’s Letters to
his Kinsfolk.

=Dillaye, Stephen Devalson.= _N. Y._, 1820-1884. The Money and Finances
of the French Revolution of 1789.

=Dillon, John Forrest.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A noted jurist of Iowa,
and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit Court Reports;
Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts;
Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America. _Lit._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Dickinson, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1688-1747. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief American
theologians of his day, and the first president of the College of New
Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and much
given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works
are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion;
Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. _See Tyler’s
American Literature._

=Dickinson, Richard William.= _N. Y._, 1804-1874. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from
the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of
John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically
Viewed.

=Dickinson, Rodolphus.= _Ms._, 1787-1863. An Episcopal clergyman in
Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised New and
Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and Statistical
View of Massachusetts.

=Dickson, Andrew Flinn.= _S. C._, 1825-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; The
Light, is it Waning?

=Dickson, John.= _N. H._, 1783-1852. A New York congressman, early
prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation of
Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.

=Dickson, Samuel Henry.= _S. C._, 1798-1872. A physician of eminence
in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858 to
1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote
much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly
admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation
of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its
History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of
Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology
and Therapeutics. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries._

=Didier= [dy´deer], =Eugene Lemoine.= _Md._, 1838- ----. Son of F. J.
Didier, _infra_. A Baltimore littérateur whose style as a critic is
somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte;
Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine
(1884). _Scr._

=Didier, Franklin James.= _Md._, 1794-1840. A Baltimore physician who
was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris; Franklin’s Letters to
his Kinsfolk.

=Dillaye, Stephen Devalson.= _N. Y._, 1820-1884. The Money and Finances
of the French Revolution of 1789.

=Dillon, John Forrest.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A noted jurist of Iowa,
and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit Court Reports;
Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts;
Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America. _Lit._

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A dictionary of American authors

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