Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

* John Greenleaf Whittier

* December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and abolitionist ( d. 1892 )

* September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist ( b. 1807 )

" In a similar vein, poet John Greenleaf Whittier detested what he deemed to be the " wicked " and " heathenish " message of Walden, decreeing that Thoreau wanted man to " lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs.

* Chaleur Bay is mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, " Skipper Ireson's Ride.

The New York Times published an enthusiastic review in 1863 noting that the author brought the " old Christmas … of bygone centuries and remote manor houses, into the living rooms of the poor of today " while the North American Review believed Dickens ’ s " fellow feeling with the race is his genius "; and John Greenleaf Whittier thought the book charming, " inwardly and outwardly ".

In the 19th century, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem called The Brewing of Soma.

The city is named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is home to Whittier College.

As the city grew, the citizens named it after John Greenleaf Whittier, a respected Quaker poet.

Named after Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.

In addition, poet John Greenleaf Whittier was an outspoken abolitionist.

* John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead

* John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 – 1892 ), poet ; his poem Snow-Bound is set in Haverhill

Center Harbor was a favorite spot of John Greenleaf Whittier, and the home of Dudley Leavitt, author of the first Farmers ' Almanac in 1797.

* John Greenleaf Whittier, poet ( summer resident )

* John Greenleaf Whittier, poet ( summer resident )

The village of Whittier, like Mount Whittier in Ossipee, is named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

A cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier, Cartland named the village where the school was located Clinton Grove, in honor of Dewitt Clinton, chief sponsor of the Erie Canal.

* John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 – 1892 ), poet and activist

Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.

Whittier, named after the New England poet John Greenleaf Whittier, opened in 1948, Furr opened in 1961, and Holland opened in 1979.

A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned.

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

Around this time Major – who in an unfortunate phrase denounced the Labour Leader John Smith as " Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels " – tried to demand an increase in the Qualified Majority needed for voting in the newly-enlarged European Union ( i. e. making it easier for Britain, in alliance with other countries, to block federalist measures ).

John denounced the dedication ceremonies.

At first, although Lollardy was denounced as a heresy, Wycliffe and the Lollards were sheltered by John of Gaunt and other anti-clerical nobility, who may have wanted to use Lollard-advocated clerical reform to acquire new sources of revenue from England ’ s monasteries.

In order to secure the cooperation of all his vassals in his plans for the invasion, Philip denounced John as an enemy of the Church, thereby justifying his attack against him as being solely for religious reasons.

Anne instructed her chaplains to preach against the vicegerent, and on 2 April 1536 her almoner, John Skip, denounced Cromwell before the entire court as an enemy of the Queen.

He denounced the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Sir John Kerr, and unsuccessfully stood for an Australian Capital Territory Senate seat at the 1975 election as an independent.

By 1798 however, he supported President John Adams and the Federalists ; he denounced passage of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions as he feared the social unrest and widespread executions that had followed the increasing radicalism of the French Revolution.

A belief that the disciple whom Jesus loved would not die before the Second Coming was apparently popular enough in the early Christian world to be denounced in the Gospel of John:

During the 1984 presidential race, when Geraldine Ferraro, who was a Roman Catholic, was the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Law and then Archbishop of New York John Joseph O ' Connor both denounced her support of abortion rights for women.

David Syme and Co. became a subsidiary of John Fairfax and Co. Macdonald was denounced as a traitor by the remaining members of the Syme family ( who nevertheless accepted Fairfax's generous offer for their shares ), but he argued that The Age and Fairfax flagship The Sydney Morning Herald were natural partners and that the greater resources of the Fairfax group would enable The Age to remain competitive.

He was fiercely denounced by the young Nationalist John Dillon, who continued his attacks with considerable support from other Home Rulers at a meeting of the Home Rule League in February 1879.

He controverted and denounced John Lilburne, and called on Parliament to crush the sectaries.

Prynne also came into collision with John Milton, whose doctrine on divorce he had denounced, and was replied to by the poet in a passage in his Colasterion.

Its influence was such that other Jackson rivals, including John Quincy Adams, denounced the Masons.

In 1962, Buckley denounced Robert W. Welch, Jr., and the John Birch Society, in National Review, as " far removed from common sense " and urged the GOP to purge itself of Welch's influence.

Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois, a Democrat, denounced Cleveland and said he could handle all disturbances in his state without federal intervention.

Some years after the publication of De Revolutionibus John Calvin preached a sermon in which he denounced those who " pervert the course of nature " by saying that " the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns ".

" John of Damascus denounced the ideas of some Arab Christians as thnetopsychism (‘ soul death ’).

The new parliament met on 6 March 1679, and on 25 March, Shaftesbury delivered a dramatic address in the House of Lords in which he warned of the threat of popery and arbitrary government ; denounced the royal administration in Scotland under John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale and Ireland under James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde ; and loudly denounced the policies of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby in England.

In 1861, when U. S. Senator John J. Crittenden proposed that the 36 ° 30 ' parallel north be declared as a line of demarcation between free and slave territories, some Republicans denounced such an arrangement, saying that it " would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and State owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego.

Jackson was denounced as a tyrant by opponents on both ends of the political spectrum such as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

In 1831 and 1832 Dudley was active in a group, headed by former Secretary of the Navy John Branch, that denounced Martin Van Buren, whom Dudley opposed more vehemently than he did Jackson, while professing to support Jackson.