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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
rers. Captain John Smith. Newfoundland. William Vaughn. Robert Hayman. Robert Sedgwick. pamphlets of the land companies. narratives of Indian captivities. Mrs. Rowlandson. John Gyles. Jonathan Dickinson. the Quakers. Alice Curwen. George Keith. Sarah Knight. William Byrd. Dr. Alexander Hamilton The English folk who became Americans during the early years of the seventeenth century kept the language of the relatives and friends whom they left, and with it their share in the litrich and poor, came to look upon us. Another traveller who did his best to scour the colonists of heretical opinions, his own opinions being as pronounced when he was directed by the Quaker spirit as when he followed the Anglican order, was George Keith. He knew the controversially-minded Americans better than anyone else at the end of the seventeenth century. The descriptions of his opponents which are scattered through his hundred-odd publications are an invaluable elucidation of the stat
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: Franklin (search)
ntice. In this situation James became jealous and overbearing, and Benjamin became insubordinate. When it grew evident that there was not room enough in Boston for them both, the younger brother left his indentures behind, and in 1723 made his memorable flight to Philadelphia. Shortly after his arrival in the Quaker city, he found employment with the second printer in Philadelphia, Samuel Keimer, a curious person who kept the Mosaic law. In 1724, encouraged by the facile promises of Governor Keith, Franklin went to England in the expectation that letters of credit and recommendation from his patron would enable him to procure a printing outfit. Left in the lurch by the governor, he served for something over a year in two great London printing-houses, kept free-thinking and rather loose company, and, in refutation of Wollaston's Religion of nature, upon which he happened to be engaged in the composing-room, published in 1725 his suppressed tract On liberty and necessity. Returnin
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Convention, 146 Journal of the taking of Cape Breton, a, 9 Journals (Emerson), 351, 355, 357 Judah, S. B., 231 Judd, Sylvester, 324 Julia, or the Wanderer, 220 Julian, 324 Juliet Grenville, 284 Julius Caesar, 225 Junto Club, 95, 105, 122, 161 K Kalm, Pehr, 186 Kaloolah, 320 Kames, Lord, 91, 97 Kant, 332, 334, 357 Katherine Walton, 315 Kean, Charles, 224, 240 Keats, John, 260, 262, 264, 265 Keene, Laura, 232 Keimer, Samuel, 94, 95, 115, 161 Keith, George, 9 Keith, Sir, William, 94 Kelly, Miss, 221 Kemble, Fanny, 189, 191 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 231, 240, 307, 308, 311-312 Kent, James, 288 Kerr, John, 221, 231 Key into the languages of America, 4 Kinsmen, the, 315 Kirkland, Mrs. C. M. S., 318 Knapp, Francis, 159 Knapp, S. H., 233 Knickerbocker History, 237 Knickerbocker magazine, the, 241, 312 n., 322 n. Knight, Sarah, 10, 13 Knight of the golden Fleece, the, 228 Knights of the Hlorse-Shoe, the, 312 K