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Bonifacius: an Essay Upon the Good, That is to Be Devised and Designed by Those Who Desire to Answer the Great End of Life, and to Do Good While They Live ...
Cotton Mather
Bonifacius: an Essay Upon the Good, That is to Be Devised and Designed by Those Who Desire to Answer the Great End of Life, and to Do Good While They Live ...
Cotton Mather
Title: Bonifacius : an essay upon the good, that is to be devised and designed by those who desire to answer the great end of life, and to do good while they live ...
Author: Cotton Mather
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP02234200
CollectionID: CTRG97-B1502
PublicationDate: 17100101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Later editions published under the running title: Essays to do good. "An appendix, concerning the essays that are made, for the propagation of religion among the Indians, in the Massachuset-province of New England": p. 194-199. "Advertisement [of the author's Biblia americana]": p. 200-206. "A book offered, first in general, unto all Christians, in a personal capacity, or in a relative, then more particularly, unto magistrates, unto ministers, unto physicians, unto lawyers, unto scholemasters, unto wealthy gentemen, unto several sorts of officers, unto churches, and unto all societies of a religious character and intention, with humble proposals, of unexceptionable methods, to do good in the world."
Collation: 206 p. ; 16 cm
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 22, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781275711884 |
Publishers | Gale, Sabin Americana |
Pages | 210 |
Dimensions | 11 × 189 × 246 mm · 385 g |
Language | English |
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