Americana; the Literature of American HistoryH. Holt, 1925 - 271 strani |
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Stran 218 - 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!
Stran 245 - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " still on hand, and at last suggesting that he had use for the room they occupied in his cellar. So I had them all sent to me here, and they have arrived to-day by express, filling the man's wagon, 706 copies out of an edition of 1000...
Stran 127 - Ibid. 61. prise, and the means to its success. As a writer his merits are really great — clearness, force, vividness, picturesque and dramatic energy, a diction racy and crisp. He had the faults of an impulsive, irascible, egotistic, and imaginative nature ; he sometimes bought human praise at too high a price ; but he had great abilities in word and deed ; his nature was upon the whole generous and noble ; and during the first two decades of the seventeenth century he did more than any other Englishman...
Stran 224 - Twill have at length a far more active state ; Yea, though with dust thy body soiled be, Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth. Free from errata, new in heaven set forth ; 'Tis but a word from God, the great Creator, It shall be done when he saith Imprimatur.
Stran 246 - Mass.," and deliver them to the expressman at once. I can see now what I write for, the result of my labors. Nevertheless in spite of this result, sitting beside the inert mass of my works, I take up my pen to-night to record what thought or experience I may have had, with as much satisfaction as ever. Indeed I believe that the result is more inspiring and better for me than if a thousand had bought my wares. It affects my privacy less and leaves me freer.
Stran 245 - I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?
Stran 75 - ... the Minion and the Judith, and the Minion was so overcrowded that Hawkins had to put one hundred and seventeen of his men ashore at Tampico; whence seventy of them, marching inland, were captured by the Spaniards. It was an unhappy day for Spain when she put in practice in that far-off harbor the doctrine of the Inquisition that no faith was to be kept with heretics. Among other results she drew down upon her the implacable hatred of two men who, more than any others, contributed to humble her...
Stran 153 - Every Schollar, that on proofe is found able to read the Originalls of the Old and New Testament into the Latine tongue, and to resolve them Logically; withall being of godly life and conversation; And at any publick Act hath the Approbation of the Overseers and Master of the Colledge, is fit to be dignified with his first Degree.
Stran 54 - Brute's narrative of his experiences among the savages on the southern borders of the State of New York, near the Pennsylvania line, and that of the events which occurred in the settlement at Quebec ; it contains illustrations of the dress of the savages in their wars and feasts, of their monuments for the dead, their funeral processions, of the famous fort of the Iroquois in the State of New York, and of the deer-trap.
Stran 245 - The wares are sent to me at last, and I have an opportunity to examine my purchase. They are something more substantial than fame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs to a place similar to that to which they trace their origin.