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Excerpt from Library of American History, Vol. 1: A Reprint of Standard Works, Connected by Editorial Remarks, Abounding With Copious Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Miscellaneous MatterFarther to the southwest the air was said to be more temperate and the people more civil. They dwelt in cities, built temples, and worshipped idols, to whom they offered human victims, and they had plenty of gold and silver.About the PublisherForgotten Books ...

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Excerpt from Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different Nations and AgesThe next work of Miss Adams was a review of the Christian religion. This is~a most satisfactory and candid work: one can not read it without acknowledging that it is the work of a'capa cions and an enlightened mind. In the abridgment of her his tory of New England, one misfortune did not come alone. The publisher of the first edition failed, ...

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Excerpt from Tales of the Garden of KosciuszkoThese tales are mostly founded on incidents in real life, and several of them are not as singular or romantic as the facts or the chronicles from which they were drawn would warrant. A part of one of these tales, The Lost Child, was written several years since, but circumstances prevented me from finishing it until now. The rest of them are as fresh as the blossoms of June were when I conceived the...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Life of Aaron BurrColonel Burr is still living, making his remarks upon men as well as passing events. Some of these I hope to preserve in this short memoir.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work,...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Life of Timothy Dexter: Embracing Sketches of the Eccentric Characters That Composed His AssociatesTired of dwelling upon the tall, the wise, the reverend head, and of the prow ess of heroes, I was looking over some old papers, and among them 1 found a few pages of memoranda, made many years ago, upon the life and character of that eccentric being, now remembered by thousands, Timothy Dexter. The fame of this singular man was not ...

Excerpt from An Address Delivered in Chauncey Place Church, Before the Young Men in Boston, August 2, 1826, in Commemoration of the Death of Adams and JeffersonOf him as President we shall say nothing, forf fear of bringing up, in the minds of some, an allu'i' sion to politics, which are banished from r'these' consecrated walls on this day, but it can 'givelno' pain to any one to hear it said, that in his admin5 fistration, Truxton, Preble, Sh...

Excerpt from Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksIT is said that the Romans were the first people who set up mile stones along their roads into the country, for the benefit of the way faring man. The wealthy travellers could take guides, when they wanted them, to save themselves labour and trouble, on their excur sions, and the professed tourist had skill and science enough to find his...

Excerpt from Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryThe precarious situation of the first settlers. The colony of Massachusetts Bay. Winthrop, as a magistrate and historian, Dudley, Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Wilson, John Elliot, the apostle to the Indians. The Sheppards and their writings. Nathaniel Ward, Peter Bulkley, Nathaniel Rogers, Ezekiel Rogers. The founding of Harvard College. Presidents,...