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The half-way covenant was a concession made on the part of the Church by the New England Synod convened at Northampton in 1657, mainly in order to secure a more facile working in relation to the State. The requirements for church membership were relaxed in order that certain civil privileges might be obtained by those who had neither the ability nor willingness to make profession of religious experience. Such persons were admitted on grounds of baptism, but were still denied the lord's Supper. This half-way covenant aroused much controversy, and was later opposed by Jonathan Edwards and his followers.
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Andrew P Peabody was an American journalist, philosopher and teacher. He was born in 1811 and died in 1893. He was editor of the North American Review from 1854 to 1863, and professor of Christian morals at Harvard from 1860 to 1881. He won esteem as a profound thinker, facile writer and lovable teacher.
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Christopher Smart was an English poet. He was born in 1722 at Shipbourne, Kent and died in 1771. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge of which he became a fellow in 1745, he quickly established a reputation as a facile versifier, but through a liking for drinking and a lavish lifestyle he sank into a position of a book seller's general assistant in London before twice attending a lunatic asylum and finally dying in a debtors' prison.
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James K Paulding was an American writer. He was born in 1779 and died in 1860. He was associated with Washington Irving in the publication of the Salmagundi in 1807. He was Secretary of the US Navy from 1838 to 1841. He was a facile essayist and humorist. He wrote a biography of George Washington, other works of non-fiction and at least one novel.
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Dion Boucicault (real name Dionysisus Lardner Bourcicault) was an Irish author and actor. He was born in 1822 at Dublin and died in 1890. Educated at Bruce Castle School, Tottenham and London University he was intended for an architect, but the success of a comedy, the well-known London Assurance, which he wrote when only nineteen years old, determined him for a career in connection with the stage. He first appeared on the London stage at the Princess' on the 14th of June 1852 in his own play 'The Vampire'. Dion Boucicault being a remarkably facile writer, in a few years had produced quite a lengthy list of pieces, both in comedy and melodrama, and all more or less successful. We may mention Old Heads and Young Hearts, Love in a Maze, Used Up, the Corsican Brothers.
In 1853 he went to America, where he was scarcely less popular than in England. On his return in 1860 he produced a new style of drama, dealing largely in sensation but with more heart in it than his earlier work. The Colleen Bawn and Arrah-na-Pogue are the best examples. Indeed the best Dion Boucicault could do was such pictures of Irish life and manners. As an actor he was clever, but not highly gifted. His dramatic pieces are said to number more than 150.
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FACILE is an abbreviation for Flexibility And Control Interaction Linearized Equations
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Facile princeps is Latin for easily first
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