Cyclopædia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Ciritcal Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other IllustrationsC. Scribner, 1856 - American literature |
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... unto Christ . THE BAY PSALM BOOK NATHANIEL WARD Prefatory Lines to the Poems of Anne Bradstreet . JOHN COTTON On my reverend and dear father , Mr. Thomas Hooker , late Pastor of the Church at Hartford , on Connecti- cut . 16 A Song of ...
... unto Christ . THE BAY PSALM BOOK NATHANIEL WARD Prefatory Lines to the Poems of Anne Bradstreet . JOHN COTTON On my reverend and dear father , Mr. Thomas Hooker , late Pastor of the Church at Hartford , on Connecti- cut . 16 A Song of ...
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... unto it as being my dwelling - place , where I have lived these four years , and intend , God willing , to return shortly again . " This tract is divided into two parts , the one treating of the situation and circumstances of the ...
... unto it as being my dwelling - place , where I have lived these four years , and intend , God willing , to return shortly again . " This tract is divided into two parts , the one treating of the situation and circumstances of the ...
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... unto reading Scriptures men persuades , One labour bids for food that never fades . One to redeem their time exhorteth all , One looking round for wary walking calls . One he persuades men buy the truth , not sell , One would men should ...
... unto reading Scriptures men persuades , One labour bids for food that never fades . One to redeem their time exhorteth all , One looking round for wary walking calls . One he persuades men buy the truth , not sell , One would men should ...
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... unto the gentiles . A picturesque account of the country was writ- ten by WILLIAM STRACHEY , the first Secretary of the Colony , in his two books of Historie of Tra- vaile into Virginia Britannia . It is dedicated to Lord Bacon , and ...
... unto the gentiles . A picturesque account of the country was writ- ten by WILLIAM STRACHEY , the first Secretary of the Colony , in his two books of Historie of Tra- vaile into Virginia Britannia . It is dedicated to Lord Bacon , and ...
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... unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils went a smoak , and from his mouth devouring fire : By it the coales inkindled were . 9. Likewise ...
... unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils went a smoak , and from his mouth devouring fire : By it the coales inkindled were . 9. Likewise ...
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