Dwight Sentence Examples

He graduated at Yale College in 1807, studied theology under Timothy Dwight, anfl in 1812 became pastor of the First Church of New Haven.

From 1822 until his death in New Haven on the 10th of March 1858 he was Dwight professor of didactic theology at Yale.

He was a descendant of one of the founders of the New Haven colony, worked as a boy in an uncle's blacksmith shop and on his farm, and in 1797 graduated from Yale, having studied theology under Timothy Dwight.

The first owed its origin to Jonathan Edwards (the elder) and was carried on by Samuel Hopkins (17 2 I-1803), Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), Nathaniel Emmons (1745-1840), Jonathan Edwards (the younger) and Timothy Dwight (1752-1817).

Lane Theological Seminary is situated in Walnut Hills, in the north-eastern part of the city; it was endowed by Ebenezer Lane and the Kemper family; was founded in 1829 for the training of Presbyterian ministers; had for its first president (1832-1852) Lyman Beecher; and in 1834 was the scene of a bitter contest between abolitionists in the faculty and among the students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, and the board of trustees, who forbade the discussion of slavery in the seminary and so caused about four-fifths of the students to leave, most of them going to Oberlin College.

The legislatures of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and town meetings in Cheshire and Grafton counties (New Hampshire) and in Windham county (Vermont) accepted the invitation, and the convention, composed of 12 delegates from Massachusetts, 7 from Connecticut, 4 from Rhode Island, 2 from New Hampshire and 1 from Vermont, all Federalists, met on the 15th of December 1814, chose George Cabot of Massachusetts president and Theodore Dwight of Connecticut secretary, and remained in secret session until the 5th of January 1815, when it adjourned sine die.

His father died in 1841, and young Dwight, a mischievous independent boy, got a scanty schooling.

Among the prominent men who have lived in Fairfield are Roger Sherman, the first President Dwight of Yale (who described Fairfield in his Travels and in his poem Greenfield Hill), Chancellor James Kent, and Joseph Earle Sheffield.

Dwight, Minot Pratt (c. 1805-1878), the head farmer, who, like George Partridge Bradford (1808-1890), left in 1845, and Warren Burton (1810-1866) a preacher and, later, a writer on educational subjects.

Timothy Dwight (1752-1847) urged the use of the means of grace, thought Hopkins and Emmons pantheistic, and boldly disagreed with their theory of " exercises," reckoning virtue and sin as the result of moral choice or disposition, a position that was also upheld by Asa Burton (1752-1836), who thought that on regeneration the disposition of man got a new relish or " taste."

Among the vessels expects off Scotland, probably in March 2000, will be the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower.

Much to his parents ' chagrin the company moved to Washington and Dwight toured extensively for two years progressing into bigger and better roles.

Dwight (the American Gareth) looks down-right creepy with glasses that exactly run across the top of his eyebrows and his hair parting.

In every role Dwight earned the praises of the critics who voted him one of the ten best actors currently on the stage.

The pottery was founded in 1672 by John Dwight, the first person in England to make salt-glazed stoneware commercially.

President Dwight Eisenhower, lifelong military man and five-star general, had much to say on the waging of war.

She dropped out of the Dwight School but eventually earned her GED, though she never attended college.

Born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947 to a Royal Air Force musician, Elton began playing piano at the age of four-he was able to play any song by ear-and by the time he was 11, he had won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.

Rainn Wilson, born on January 20, 1966, is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the sitcom The Office.

There is a reason why Dwight on The Office is a joke character; his short-sleeved yellow shirts show he doesn't understand how to be a serious corporate player.

Dilbert of the eponymous comic strip first popularized them (or not) and they have gained new laugh power as the wardrobe of uber-dweeb Dwight on the TV show The Office.

It doesn't help that Dwight's shirts slope in the shoulders and are usually an unfortunate shade of yellow.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc., the same company behind First Response, manufactures the products.

The first Harkins movie house was established in the early 1930's by Dwight 'Red' Harkins, who began a legacy for innovation and quality in theaters.

You Could Be Mine performed by Guns N' Roses, Bad To The Bone performed by George Thorogood & The Destroyers, and Guitars, Cadillacs performed by Dwight Yoakam, were all left out of the soundtrack.