Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting, in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord 1698 ...S. Andrus & son, 1855 |
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Page vii
... reader would expect to discover , in the annals of such a people , characters and events not to be found in the history of other communities . - The geography and natural history of the country were not the principal objects of the ...
... reader would expect to discover , in the annals of such a people , characters and events not to be found in the history of other communities . - The geography and natural history of the country were not the principal objects of the ...
Page xxxvi
... reader's mind is already in advance of the pen - the MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA . This was printed in London , in 1702 , in a moderate sized folio volume , in double column , the aggregate of its pages being seven hundred and ninety ...
... reader's mind is already in advance of the pen - the MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA . This was printed in London , in 1702 , in a moderate sized folio volume , in double column , the aggregate of its pages being seven hundred and ninety ...
Page xxxvii
... Reader , Carthagenia was of the mind , that unto those three things which the ancients held impossible , there should be added this fourth , to find a book printed without erratas . It seems the hands of Briareus , and the eyes of Argus ...
... Reader , Carthagenia was of the mind , that unto those three things which the ancients held impossible , there should be added this fourth , to find a book printed without erratas . It seems the hands of Briareus , and the eyes of Argus ...
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... READER : [ Anagrams , & c . , in the Original. STRUCK with huge love , of what to be possest , I much despond , good reader , in the quest ; Yet help me , if at length it may be said , Who first the chambers of the south display'd ...
... READER : [ Anagrams , & c . , in the Original. STRUCK with huge love , of what to be possest , I much despond , good reader , in the quest ; Yet help me , if at length it may be said , Who first the chambers of the south display'd ...
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... readers expect all that I have promised them , in this Bill of Fare ; and it may be they will find themselves entertained ... reader will doubtless desire to know , what it was that -tot Volvere casus Insignes Pietate Viros , tot adire ...
... readers expect all that I have promised them , in this Bill of Fare ; and it may be they will find themselves entertained ... reader will doubtless desire to know , what it was that -tot Volvere casus Insignes Pietate Viros , tot adire ...
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