Colonial American writing.
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| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Rinehart,
[1950]
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| Series: | Rinehart editions ;
43. |
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Table of Contents:
- John Smith : from A description of New England
- William Bradford : from The history of Plymouth plantation
- John Winthrop : from The journal
- Roger Williams : from The bloudy tenent yet more bloudy ; Letter to the town of Providence
- Thomas Hooker : A true sight of sin
- Urian Oakes : from The Sovraign efficacy of divine providence
- Samuel Sewall : from The diary
- Mary Rowlandson : from The captivity.
- Cotton Mather : from The magnalia christi americana; The christian philosopher
- Anonymous : "Anagram on Thomas Dudley"
- Samuel Danforth : from An almanack for the year of our lord 1647
- Anne Bradstreet : "Contemplations," "The flesh and the spirit," "To my dear and loving husband," "Before the birth of one of her children"
- Michael Wigglesworth : The day of doom
- John Fiske : "Upon the decease of the reverend Mr Tho : Hooker & c."
- Cotton Mather : "Epitaph on Shubael Dummer"
- Edward Taylor : "Huswifery," "Meditation six," "Meditation eight," "Meditation fifty six, second series," "Preface" to Gods determinations, "Upon the sweeping flood"
- Urian Oakes : "An elegy on the death of the reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard"
- John Wise : from A vindication of the government of New-England churches.
- Jonathan Edwards : Personal narrative ; Sinners in the hands of an angry god ; from Images or shadows of divine things ; from The nature of true virtue
- Two views of Nathaniel Bacon : Sir John Berry, Col. Herbert Jeffreys, and Francis Moryson : from A true narrative of the late rebellion in Virginia
- Anonymous : from the Burwell papers
- William Byrd : from The history of the dividing line ; from The secret diary.
- Robert Beverly : from The history and present state of Virginia
- William Penn : Letter from William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders
- John Woolman : from The journal
- Ebenezer Cook : "The sotweed factor"
- William Dawson : "Hymn to the morning," "Song"
- Mather Byler : "Written in Milton's Paradise lost," "To Pictorio"
- Benjamin Church : "The choice"
- Conrad Weiser : Journal to the Ohio
- John Filson : The adventures of Col. Daniel Boon.