 | Massachusetts - 1894 - 532 pages
...thus to a friend in London in reference to a revised edition of this book — "I desire to see it done before I die and I am so deep in years that I cannot...that is able to compose the sheets and correct the form with understanding." James was sometimes teacher, both at Nassanawisit and Chaubunagungamaug,... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1894 - 560 pages
...to a friend in London in reference to a revised edition of this book — " I desire to see it done before I die and I am so deep in years that I cannot...that is able to compose the sheets and correct the form with understanding." James was sometimes teacher, both at Nassanawisit and Chaubunagungamaug,... | |
 | John Wright - Prayer books - 1896 - 838 pages
...progress necdeth :m apology, we have last year been much hindered by sickness, — I desire to sec it dour before I die, and I am so deep in years that I cannot expert to live long — besides we have but one man the Indian printer who is able to compose the sheet... | |
 | Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson, Ellsworth Eliot, George Edwin Eliot - Genealogy - 1905 - 414 pages
...is, the printing of the Old Testament, that they may have the whole Bible ... I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot...sheets, and correct the press with understanding". May 29. "We (the Commissioners of the United Colonies) have also found it needful to allow Reverend... | |
 | Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt - Names, Geographical - 1905 - 72 pages
...wrote to a friend in London in regard to a revised edition of the Indian Bible, " we have but one man, the Indian printer, that is able to compose the sheets and correct the press with understanding. ' ' This man was James the Printer, from Hassanamissit (Graf ton). I have also attempted to suggest... | |
 | George Emery Littlefield - American literature - 1907 - 256 pages
...1683, in writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle at London, Rev. John Eliot says : " I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot...sheets, and correct the press with understanding." He is supposed to have been employed by the Greens in printing all their Indian publications, [ 77... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - Indians of North America - 1910 - 548 pages
...the spoiling of the Pequods, Uncas claimed the leaderdeep in years, that I cannot expect to live very long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian...correct the press with understanding.' In another, from the same to the same, dated a year after, he says, 'Our slow progress needeth an apology. We have... | |
 | James Douglas - Canada - 1913 - 680 pages
...Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen: "We have but one man, viz., the Indian Printer, who is able to compose the sheets and correct the Press with understanding." He was an educated Indian, who had been an apprentice of Green, when printing the first edition of... | |
 | Sydney Gould - Eskimos - 1917 - 314 pages
...concerning the printing of the second edition of his famous Indian Bible: "I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot...sheets, and correct the press with understanding." The Indian Printer, or James Printer, or James-the-Printer—for his name or title appears in all three... | |
 | Baptists - 1837 - 658 pages
...leave the Bible among them ; for it is tbe word of life." And in another, " I desire to see it done before I die ; and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long ; and sundry say, if 1 do not procure it printed while I live, it is not within the prospect of human... | |
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I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian Printer, that is able to compose the sheets, and correct the press with understanding. 
