...eight years after that date, but we hear nothing of a Second Part, although in his preface he tells us he was (when he wrote it) "enjoying perfect leisure...can throw a ray of light upon the point in question. Some time had probably elapsed between the writing of the preface, or perhaps the printing of it, and...

...ambition to give to Virginia what it greatly needed — a history of itself. " Such a work," said he, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." s Accordingly, in 1747, he published at Williamsburg, in a volume of three hundred and thirty-one pages,...

...ambition to give to Virginia what it greatly needed — a history of itself. " Such a work," said he, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." 3 Accordingly, in 1747, he published at Williamsburg, in a volume of three hundred and thirty-one pages,...

...to straighten into order the confusion of early Virginian history. " Such a work," he reflected, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." What with his scholarly love of documents set forth at length, however, his painstaking recital of...

...to straighten into order the confusion of early Virginian history. " Such a work," he reflected, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." What with his scholarly love of documents set forth at length, however, his painstaking recital of...

...to straighten into order the confusion of early Virginian history. " Such a work," he reflected, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." What with his scholarly love of documents set forth at length, however, his painstaking recital of...

...something done during that eight years towards a Second Part of his History of Virginia; especially aa he says himself, "Such a work will be a noble and...HISTORIcAL MAGAZINE, Vol. II (1858), 61, has this to say under the heading "Replies":— "STITH'S VIRGINIA (Vol. I, pp. 27 and 59), — In the HM for January...

...perhaps best stated in the words of Stith, of Virginia, who said that he began to write his history as "a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant hours,...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." Few of the historians of this class had a large number of readers. Two wrote about Virginia, Robert...

...enjoy a perfect Leisure and Retirement, and am not burthened with any publick Post or Office. So that such a Work will be a noble and elegant Entertainment for my vacant Hours" (iv). Enjoying no similar leisure and retirement, I am grateful for financial assistance from the following,...

...days to straighten into order the confusion of early Virginian history. "Such a work," he reflected, " will be a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant...satisfaction, or the use and benefit of my country." What with his scholarly love of documents set forth at length, however, his painstaking recital of...