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Page 12 - Subjects, the Governor and the Company late gone for New England; to the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England...
Page 90 - Juvenile poems on various subjects. With the Prince of Parthia, a tragedy.
Page 26 - John Norton : The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation.2 (?) : The Popish Inquisition Recently Erected in New England; The Secret Works of a Cruel People Made Manifest.
Page 294 - Mr. Gosse's book is one for the student because of its fulness, its trustworthiness, and its thorough soundness of criticisms ; and one for the general reader because of its pleasantness and interest. It is a book, indeed, not easy to put down or to part with.
Page 74 - American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies. There were three numbers, dated January through March. The close rival was Benjamin Franklin's The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for All the British Plantations in America.
Page 50 - Ichabod; or, A Discourse showing what cause there is to fear that the Glory of the Lord is departing from New England," the President recurs to the subject, though incidentally, and more covertly.
Page 56 - THE ENTERTAINING HISTORY OF KING PHILIP'S WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1675. AS ALSO OF EXPEDITIONS MORE LATELY MADE AGAINST THE COMMON ENEMY, AND INDIAN REBELS, IN THE EASTERN PARTS OF NEW-ENGLAND: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE TOWARDS COL. BENJAMIN CHURCH: BY THOMAS CHURCH, ESQ. HIS SON.
Page 247 - Charles Etienne Arthur, 1805. Essai Historique sur Louisiane, 1830. Romance of the History of Louisiana, 1848. Louisiana; Its Colonial History and Romance, 1851.
Page 54 - Bonifacius. An Essay upon the Good, that is to be Devised and Designed by those who Desire to Answer the Great End of Life, and to Do Good While they Live.