A History of American Literature, Volume 1G.P. Putnam, 1878 |
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... Notable passages - The fable of his rescue by Poca- hontas ― The place of the book at the head of American litera- ture - Summary of its literary traits .. 16 17 20 IV . His second American writing - A bold letter XV.
... Notable passages - The fable of his rescue by Poca- hontas ― The place of the book at the head of American litera- ture - Summary of its literary traits .. 16 17 20 IV . His second American writing - A bold letter XV.
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... head of American literature - Summary of its literary traits . IV . His second American writing - A bold letter to his London patrons— His knowledge refusing to be commanded by their ignorance - The kind of men to make good colonists of ...
... head of American literature - Summary of its literary traits . IV . His second American writing - A bold letter to his London patrons— His knowledge refusing to be commanded by their ignorance - The kind of men to make good colonists of ...
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... head sat a woman ; at his feet , another ; on each side , sitting upon a mat upon the ground were ranged his chief ... heads painted in red ; and with such a grave and majestical countenance as drave me into admiration to see such state ...
... head sat a woman ; at his feet , another ; on each side , sitting upon a mat upon the ground were ranged his chief ... heads painted in red ; and with such a grave and majestical countenance as drave me into admiration to see such state ...
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... head of the bay the rocks are of a composition like mill - stones , some of marble and so forth . And many pieces like crys- tal we found , as thrown down by water from those moun- tains . These waters wash from the rocks such ...
... head of the bay the rocks are of a composition like mill - stones , some of marble and so forth . And many pieces like crys- tal we found , as thrown down by water from those moun- tains . These waters wash from the rocks such ...
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... head somewhat gray , his beard so thin that it seemeth none at all , his age near sixty ; of a very able and hardy body to endure any labor . About his person ordinarily attendeth a guard of forty or fifty of the tallest men his country ...
... head somewhat gray , his beard so thin that it seemeth none at all , his age near sixty ; of a very able and hardy body to endure any labor . About his person ordinarily attendeth a guard of forty or fifty of the tallest men his country ...
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Page 269 - The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America; or, Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight; wherein especially is contained a complete discourse and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year; together with an exact epitome of the four monarchies, viz., the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman; also, a dialogue between Old England and New concerning the late troubles; with divers other pleasant and serious poems. By a gentlewoman...
Page 6 - Frighting the wide heaven; And in regions far, Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came , And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our North...
Page 87 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 100 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Page 112 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, againe to set their feet on the firm and stable earth,. their proper element.
Page 128 - This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all the ordinances of God are bent against, to restrain and subdue it. The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal ; it may also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant between God and man, in the moral law, and the politic covenants and constitutions amongst men themselves.
Page 225 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 128 - There is a twofold liberty — natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt), and civil or federal. The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.
Page 228 - I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cipher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either honored or humored.
Page 254 - There goes many a ship to sea with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship ; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges — that none of the papists, protestants, Jews or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers...