This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... that many more copies of them all may now be found in Great Britain than in this country. It is to be hoped, however, that, of the few that remain, a complete set may yet be collected for some one of the public libraries of Rhode Island. In addition to those works, which were prepared specially for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... that many more copies of them all may now be found in Great Britain than in this country. It is to be hoped, however, that, of the few that remain, a complete set may yet be collected for some one of the public libraries of Rhode Island. In addition to those works, which were prepared specially for publication, there is a large number of letters and documents relating to both public and private affairs. Many of these have been published in the early volumes of the Massachusetts Historical Collections, and also in Mr. Knowles's Memoir. Others are scattered about in the possession of individuals, or in places of public deposit. Of the published letters, that written, in 1670, to Major Mason, of Connecticut, is by far the most interesting and valuable, and contains the fullest account, which he has left on record, of the period of his banishment, and his planting the settlement at Providence. No one can read it without admiring the simplicity of 'he narrative, or without feeling a lively sympathy for the perils he encountered, and the sufferings he endured. LIFE OP TIMOTHY DWIGHT, PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE; BY WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D. D. PREFACE. The great end, which Biography contemplates, is the exhibition of character. There are two ways of reaching this end. One is, by exhibiting the incidents in detail which make up an individual's life, including both the actions which he has performed, and the events which have occurred to him, and then referring the external to the internal, judging of what he is by what he does and what he experiences. The other mode is, by presenting the various qualities of which his character is composed, and then using whatever belongs to his history only as illustrative and confirmatory. Where the life is unusually...
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