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

=Edwards, George Wharton.= _Ct._, 1860- ----. An artist and writer of
short stories living at Plainfield, New Jersey. P’tit Matinic’, and
Other Monotones; Thumb-Nail Sketches; The Rivalries of Long and Short
Codiac; Break o’ Day and Other Stories. _Cent._

=Edwards, Harry Stillwell.= _Ga._, 1854- ----. A littérateur and
journalist of Macon, Georgia. Two Runaways and Other Stories; Sons and
Fathers. _Cent. Ra._

=Edwards, James Thomas.= _N. J._, 1838- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
educator of Baltimore. The Grass Family; The Voice Tree; The Silva of
Chautauqua Lake.

=Edwards, John.= _W._, 1806-1887. A Welsh poet who came to America in
1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent amongst
Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes of
verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God.

=Edwards, John Ellis.= _N. C._, 1814-1891. A Methodist clergyman of
Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random Sketches and
Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log Meeting-House.

=Edwards, Jonathan.= _Ct._, 1703-1757. A Congregational clergyman
who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World has ever
produced. He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational minister
of East Windsor, Connecticut, and was minister at Northampton,
Massachusetts, 1727-50. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to
the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president
of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was
the greatest defender of Calvinism that has ever lived, and as a
preacher had an extraordinary influence. His famous sermon, “Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God,” is the best example of the pitiless,
ferocious realism of his style. His chief work is the celebrated
Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise,
and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind
and Natural Science, written when he was between 15 and 16 years of
age; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of
the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God’s Last End in the Creation;
Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the
Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion;
History of the Redemption; Life of David Brainerd. _See Lives by S. E.
Dwight, supra; S. Hopkins, infra; A. V. G. Allen, 1889, supra; Sparks’s
American Biography, vol. 8; Tyler’s American Literature; Duyckinck’s
Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Edwards, Jonathan, Jr.= _Ms._, 1745-1801. Son of Jonathan Edwards,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman of great ability who was president
of Union College. Treatise on Liberty and Necessity; Discourses on the
Atonement. _See Memoir by Tryon Edwards, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

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

=Edwards, George Wharton.= _Ct._, 1860- ----. An artist and writer of
short stories living at Plainfield, New Jersey. P’tit Matinic’, and
Other Monotones; Thumb-Nail Sketches; The Rivalries of Long and Short
Codiac; Break o’ Day and Other Stories. _Cent._

=Edwards, Harry Stillwell.= _Ga._, 1854- ----. A littérateur and
journalist of Macon, Georgia. Two Runaways and Other Stories; Sons and
Fathers. _Cent. Ra._

=Edwards, James Thomas.= _N. J._, 1838- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
educator of Baltimore. The Grass Family; The Voice Tree; The Silva of
Chautauqua Lake.

=Edwards, John.= _W._, 1806-1887. A Welsh poet who came to America in
1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent amongst
Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes of
verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God.

=Edwards, John Ellis.= _N. C._, 1814-1891. A Methodist clergyman of
Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random Sketches and
Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log Meeting-House.

=Edwards, Jonathan.= _Ct._, 1703-1757. A Congregational clergyman
who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World has ever
produced. He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational minister
of East Windsor, Connecticut, and was minister at Northampton,
Massachusetts, 1727-50. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to
the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president
of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was
the greatest defender of Calvinism that has ever lived, and as a
preacher had an extraordinary influence. His famous sermon, “Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God,” is the best example of the pitiless,
ferocious realism of his style. His chief work is the celebrated
Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise,
and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind
and Natural Science, written when he was between 15 and 16 years of
age; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of
the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God’s Last End in the Creation;
Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the
Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion;
History of the Redemption; Life of David Brainerd. _See Lives by S. E.
Dwight, supra; S. Hopkins, infra; A. V. G. Allen, 1889, supra; Sparks’s
American Biography, vol. 8; Tyler’s American Literature; Duyckinck’s
Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Edwards, Jonathan, Jr.= _Ms._, 1745-1801. Son of Jonathan Edwards,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman of great ability who was president
of Union College. Treatise on Liberty and Necessity; Discourses on the
Atonement. _See Memoir by Tryon Edwards, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit._

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