Colonial Prose and Poetry ...: Pioneer literatureWilliam Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1901 - American literature |
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... mind in the process of its differ- entiation . That the survey might be full yet not prolix the selections have often been shortened by the omission of passages that would weary a modern reader , but such omissions have always been ...
... mind in the process of its differ- entiation . That the survey might be full yet not prolix the selections have often been shortened by the omission of passages that would weary a modern reader , but such omissions have always been ...
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... mind , congenial theme , in treating which he displayed not a little curious ingenuity . He was the most facile and prolific of what we may call the school of Sternhold and Hopkins . Wigglesworth and Folger are , however , reserved for ...
... mind , congenial theme , in treating which he displayed not a little curious ingenuity . He was the most facile and prolific of what we may call the school of Sternhold and Hopkins . Wigglesworth and Folger are , however , reserved for ...
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... mind , and justly , is its theology . Not indeed in the Middle Colonies or in the South , though there were a few noteworthy divines even there , but in New England where a practical theocracy was to be seen in full flower . Easy ...
... mind , and justly , is its theology . Not indeed in the Middle Colonies or in the South , though there were a few noteworthy divines even there , but in New England where a practical theocracy was to be seen in full flower . Easy ...
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... minds . To dominate them the clergy had to be acute logicians and powerful reasoners . Narrow they might be ; but of power , of sheer indomitable force , no body of citizens and no caste have ever been such complete exemplars as the New ...
... minds . To dominate them the clergy had to be acute logicians and powerful reasoners . Narrow they might be ; but of power , of sheer indomitable force , no body of citizens and no caste have ever been such complete exemplars as the New ...
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... mind can be more pleasant , than planting and build- ing a foundation for his posterity , got from the rude earth , by God's blessing and his own industry , without prejudice to any ? If he have any grain of faith or zeal in Religion ...
... mind can be more pleasant , than planting and build- ing a foundation for his posterity , got from the rude earth , by God's blessing and his own industry , without prejudice to any ? If he have any grain of faith or zeal in Religion ...
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Page 282 - When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Page 13 - ... being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 40 - ... occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship — That when they came a shore they would use their owne libertie; for none had power to command them...
Page 101 - Mr. Hopkins, the governor of Hartford upon Connecticut, came to Boston, and brought his wife with him (a godly young woman, and of special parts), who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of her understanding and reason...
Page 252 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ; and as willing never to be paid for his work by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses. By Theodore de la Guard. ' In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima quaeque consilia tutissima sunt.
Page 12 - At last they brought him to Meronocomoco, where was Powhatan, their emperor. Here more than two hundred of those grim courtiers stood wondering at him, as he had been a monster, till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest braveries.
Page xiii - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 282 - I heard the merry grashopper then sing. The black clad Cricket, bear a second part. They kept one tune, and plaid on the same string. Seeming to glory in their little Art.
Page 139 - Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion ? But I would refer you to David's war. When a people is grown to such a height of blood, and sin against God and man...
Page 40 - James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie...