Catalogue of the Private Library of Samuel Gardner Drake, A. M., Parts 1-2 |
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... memorial of the founders of New England , and his devotion to the work was boundless . To reach the source whence the earliest testi- mony might be drawn , he visited England in 1858 ; and , putting aside the temptation to explore her ...
... memorial of the founders of New England , and his devotion to the work was boundless . To reach the source whence the earliest testi- mony might be drawn , he visited England in 1858 ; and , putting aside the temptation to explore her ...
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... memorials , and genealogies are the fruit . It was , at first , like laying down a railway in a country destitute of population ; but these pioneers lived to see a numerous and intelligent class arise to push the spirit of inquiry into ...
... memorials , and genealogies are the fruit . It was , at first , like laying down a railway in a country destitute of population ; but these pioneers lived to see a numerous and intelligent class arise to push the spirit of inquiry into ...
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... Memorial , " Trumbull's “ Con- necticut , " Smith's " New York , " Beverley's " Virginia , " Backus's " Church History , " etc. It is full and compact in whatever relates to the Colonial or Revolutionary wars , or to those of 1812 and ...
... Memorial , " Trumbull's “ Con- necticut , " Smith's " New York , " Beverley's " Virginia , " Backus's " Church History , " etc. It is full and compact in whatever relates to the Colonial or Revolutionary wars , or to those of 1812 and ...
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... Memorial Volume of Essex St. Ch . and Soc . , Boston . 25th Anniversary of his Installation . Boston : 1860. 12 ° . [ Portrait . ] 86 South - side View of Slavery : or , Three Months at the South in 1854. Boston : 1854. 12 ° . - 87 ...
... Memorial Volume of Essex St. Ch . and Soc . , Boston . 25th Anniversary of his Installation . Boston : 1860. 12 ° . [ Portrait . ] 86 South - side View of Slavery : or , Three Months at the South in 1854. Boston : 1854. 12 ° . - 87 ...
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... Memorials , Letters , etc. wh . relate to the present Disputes between Great Britain and her Colonies . Containing many Origi- nal Papers never before published . No. 1. [ Five in all . ] 3d . ed . London : 1768. 8 ° . 232 AMERICAN ...
... Memorials , Letters , etc. wh . relate to the present Disputes between Great Britain and her Colonies . Containing many Origi- nal Papers never before published . No. 1. [ Five in all . ] 3d . ed . London : 1768. 8 ° . 232 AMERICAN ...
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Page iii - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Page 163 - SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES ; including the Biography of the Poet ; Criticisms on his Genius and Writings ; a...
Page 279 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 161 - SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED. Who is or may be a Pattern to stirre up all Heroicke and active Spirits of these Times, to benefit their Countrey and eternize their Names by like Noble Attempts. Being a Summary and true Relation of foure severall Voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the WestIndies, viz.
Page 98 - Counter-Revolution in England for the Re-establishment of Popery under Charles II. and James II., by Armand Carrel ; with Fox's History of James II. and Lord Lonsdale's Memoir of James II.
Page 65 - An Appeal to the World; or a Vindication of the Town of Boston, from Many false and malicious Aspersions...
Page 110 - Divi Britannici, being a remark upon the lives of all the kings of this isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660.
Page 191 - PASTON LETTERS. ORIGINAL LETTERS, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various Persons of Rank or Consequence.
Page 77 - The lives of the Puritans : containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the act of uniformity, in 1662 . . . London, 1813.
Page 257 - Hooker, Thomas. A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline Wherein the Way of the Churches of New England is Warranted Out of the Word, and All Exceptions of Weight, Which Are Made Against It, Answered . . . London, 1648.