5, 1692. Quincy's _History of Harvard_, i. 71.] which he
gave himself between the approval of the bill by Phips and its rejection
at London. The compliment was the more flattering, however, as it was the
first ever granted in New England. But the clouds were fast gathering over
the head of this good man. Like many another benefactor of his race, he
was doomed to experience the pangs inflicted by ingratitude, and indeed
his pain was so acute he seldom lost an opportunity of giving it public
expression; to use his own words of some years later, "these are the last
lecture sermons... to be preached by me.... The ill treatment which I have
had from those from whom I had reason to have expected better, have
discouraged me from being any more concerned on such occasions."
[Footnote: Address to Sermon, _The Righteous Man a Blessing_, 1702.]
Certainly he was in a false position; he was necessarily unappreciated by
the liberals, and he had not only alienated many staunch conservatives by
his acceptance of the charter, but he had embittered them, by rigorously
excluding all except his particular faction from Phips's council. To his
deep chagrin, the elections of 1693 went in favor of many of these
thankless men, and his discontent soon took the form of an intense longing
to go abroad in some official position which would give him importance.
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