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The Talking Deaf Man, Or, A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who Is Born Deaf May Learn To Speak, Johann Conrad Amman

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, December 17, 1693, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated December 17, 1693 (December 7, 1693 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas and Phebe Pemberton.

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, December 17, 1693, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated December 17, 1693 (December 7, 1693 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas and Phebe Pemberton.

Mary Bowne, Phebe Pemberton, [1693], Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter likely dated 1693 from Mary Bowne to Phebe Pemberton.

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution., Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster , Editor

Joshua Scottow Papers

This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original.

The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution, Joshua Scottow

Zea E-Books in American Studies

This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original. The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …

The Widdow Ranter, Or, The History Of Bacon In Virginia (1690), Aphra Behn, Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia was probably written in 1688, first performed in late 1689, and published in 1690. It is a highly fictionalized drama of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 in Virginia, when Nathaniel Bacon (c.1640-1676), commander of a volunteer force of Indian fighters, succeeded for several months in overthrowing the government of Sir William Berkeley, who had declared Bacon a rebel and refused to countenance or commission his actions against the Indians. Mrs. Behn’s play casts Bacon as a classical hero, motivated by “Honour,” and in love with an Indian princess. A variety of …

Excerpt, Brevísima Relación De La Destrucción De La Indias, Bartolomé De Las Casas, Alisa Roberts

Early Visions Bucket

In his "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de la Indias, Las Casas describe absymal treatment of the natives."

Peter Hendricks, Roger Longworth Via Thomas Atherton, August 28, 1686, Peter Hendricks

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated August 28, 1686 (August 18, 1686 Old Style) from Peter Hendricks to Roger Longworth, delivered to Thomas Atherton.

The Compleat Troller : Or, The Art Of Trolling, With A Description Of All The Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, And Materials Requisite Thereto : With Rules And Directions How To Use Them : As Also A Brief Account Of Most Of The Principal Rivers In England., Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706?

Angling

Dedication signed: Ro. Nobbes. Advertisement on p. [2] at end.

Phineas Pemberton, Phebe Pemberton, August 18, 1680, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated August 18, 1680 (August 8, 1680 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his wife, Phebe Pemberton. In the letter, Phineas reports on the health of Roger Haydock, recovering from an illness in Carrickfergus. Several Friends went to Carrickfergus to make sure he was alright, and they report his condition as improving.

Didascalocophus : Or The Deaf And Dumb Mans Tutor, To Which Is Added A Discourse Of The Nature And Number Of Double Consonants: Both Which Tracts Being The First (For What The Author Knows) That Have Been Published Upon Either Of The Subjects, George Dalgarno

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

Phineas Pemberton, Ralph Pemberton, September 25, 1676, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated September 25, 1676 (September 15, 1676 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. Phineas expresses his regrets at his father's poor health, telling him to not go to Aspull on business if it will make his health worse. The rest of the letter concerns their business and goods purchased.

An Earnest Exhortation To The Inhabitants Of New-England (1676), Increase Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The work reprinted here, An Earnest Exhortation to the Inhabitants of New-England to Hearken to the Voice of God in His Late and Present Dispensations As Ever They Desire to Escape Another Judgement, Seven Times Greater Then Any Thing Which as Yet Hath Been (1676), is transcribed from the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society. It is Mather's theological explication of King Philip’s War (1675-76) as God’s punishment of his people for their backsliding. Characteristic of the homiletic tradition of the jeremiad is Increase Mather’s paradigmatic response to the war with the Indian Sachem Metacom and his action plan …

A Brief History Of The Warr With The Indians In New-England, Increase Mather

Zea E-Books in American Studies

This ebook represents a new edition of Increase Mather’s influential contemporary account of King Philip’s War, between the English colonists in New England (and their Native allies) and the Wampanoag, Naragansett, and other Indian nations of the region, beginning in 1675. Mather’s account runs through August of 1676, when hostilities in southern, central, and western New England ended; fighting continued in the region of Maine until 1678. The war was disastrous for both sides, but particularly for the hostile Native Americans, who were brought very close to extermination.

Mather describes his history as “brief” (its 30,00 words run to 89 …

A Brief History Of The Warr With The Indians In New-England (1676): An Online Electronic Text Edition, Increase Mather, Paul Royster (Editor)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The following pages represent a new edition of Increase Mather’s influential contemporary account of King Philip’s War, between the English colonists in New England (and their Native allies) and the Wampanoag, Naragansett, and other Indian nations of the region, beginning in 1675. Mather’s account runs through August of 1676, when hostilities in southern, central, and western New England ended; fighting continued in the region of Maine until 1678. The war was disastrous for both sides, but particularly for the hostile Native Americans, who were brought very close to extermination.

Mather describes his history as “brief” (it runs to 89 pages …

Phineas Pemberton, Ralph Pemberton, May 11, 1670, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated May 11, 1670 (May 1, 1670 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. He tells his father about his recent imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, that he does not know when he will come home, and being met with treatment "something harsh & cruel." Despite being told to not attend a meeting in town, Phineas intends to hold a meeting with two fellow Friends imprisoned alongside him, Margaret Fell and Francis Dunn: Initially, they were to be tried at a court session on the second Tuesday after Easter, but lack of judges postponed the trial until …

Phineas Pemberton, Ralph Pemberton, May 11, 1670, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated May 11, 1670 (May 1, 1670 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. He tells his father about his recent imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, that he does not know when he will come home, and being met with treatment "something harsh & cruel." Despite being told to not attend a meeting in town, Phineas intends to hold a meeting with two fellow Friends imprisoned alongside him, Margaret Fell and Francis Dunn: Initially, they were to be tried at a court session on the second Tuesday after Easter, but lack of judges postponed the trial until …

A Brief Description Of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands (1670), Daniel Denton, Paul Royster , Editor & Depositor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Denton’s work was the first English account intended to promote settlement of the region recently seized from the Dutch. It is of particular interest for 1) its description of the geographic and topographic features of the region from Albany in the north to the mouth of the Delaware Bay in the south, and from the eastern tip of Long Island to the interior of modern-day New Jersey; 2) its enumeration of the plants, animals, and commodities of the area; 3) its impressive and extended account of the customs and livelihood of the Indians of the region; 4) its early suggestion …

Codex: Sarzana English

Constitutions and Rules

No abstract provided.

Codex: Sarzana English + Notes

Constitutions and Rules

No abstract provided.

James Harrison, Ann Harrison, October 28, 1666, James Harrison

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter written from jail dated October 28, 1666 (October 18, 1666 Old Style) from James Harrison to his wife, Ann Harrison. Hearing she has not been well, he asks her to send word at her next opportunity. He talks about his shoemaking business, his employees Edward Lingard and Roger Longworth, and impending employment. Finally, he assures her of both his health and those imprisoned with him, and sends her his love.

James Harrison, Ann Harrison, October 28, 1666, James Harrison

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter written from jail dated October 28, 1666 (October 18, 1666 Old Style) from James Harrison to his wife, Ann Harrison. Hearing she has not been well, he asks her to send word at her next opportunity. He talks about his shoemaking business, his employees Edward Lingard and Roger Longworth, and impending employment. Finally, he assures her of both his health and those imprisoned with him, and sends her his love.

A Relation Of A Discovery Lately Made On The Coast Of Florida: (From Lat. 31. To 33 Deg. 45 Min. North-Lat.)., Hilton, William, D. 1675, Long, Anthony, Fabian, Peter, 17th Cent

Florida Heritage

This expedition first visited the neighborhood of Port Royal, then sailed northeastward along the South Carolina coast, concluding with a careful exploration of Cape Fear River.

Includes the relation of the expedition, various letters by William Hilton and Captain Alanso Arguiles, as well as proposals concerning the disposition of land to settlers of the region explored by Hilton.

God’S Controversy With New-England (1662, 1871), Michael Wigglesworth, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Presented here is Wigglesworth’s manuscript poem "God’s Controversy with New-England" (1871)—courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Composed in 1662 on the occasion of a terrible drought, the poem is a versified jeremiad bewailing the backsliding of the rising generation. Thus, God uses nature’s drought as a secondary cause to punish the exsiccation of the spirit among the offspring of New England’s patriarchs, whose children were either unable (or unwilling) to accept the Half-Way Covenant (1662) governing church admission. More than that, "God’s Controversy" encapsulates the Federal Covenant between God and Saints, whose chastisement, paradoxically, is a sign of God’s loving …

Common Rules: English

Constitutions and Rules

No abstract provided.

Case Notes

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Physical Directory; Or A Translation Of The Dispensatory Made By The Colledg Of Physitians Of London, And By Them Imposed Upon All The Apothecaries Of England To Make Up Their Medicines By. And In This Third Edition Is Added A Key To Galen's Method Of Physick., Nicholas Culpeper

Rare Books & Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Phantastes Chapter 19: The Innocent Iii, Abraham Cowley

German Romantic and Other Influences

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was an English poet whose work echoes the metaphysical wit of John Donne. The lines quoted are lines 5-8 of “The Innocent III” (1647).

Milk For Babes. Drawn Out Of The Breasts Of Both Testaments. Chiefly, For The Spirituall Nourishment Of Boston Babes In Either England: But May Be Of Like Use For Any Children, John Cotton

Zea E-Books in American Studies

John Cotton’s Milk for Babes (also known as Spiritual Milk for Babes), a beginning catechism for children and young Christians, was first published in the 1640s and remained in print continuously for over 200 years. In a series of 64 questions and answers, it rehearses sin and the law, the ten commandments, the role of the Church, the nature of grace, the covenant, salvation, the sacraments, and the last judgment. It is annotated with 203 marginal Bible references on which Cotton based his statement of the fundamental Puritan credo. In its 13 small pages, Cotton’s catechism encompasses the Reformed …