A character of the province of Maryland : described in four distinct parts ; also a small treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland ..together with a collection of historical letters . GOWANS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. Tliy fathers went down into Eg^^it witli three score and ten])ersons, and now the Lord thy (iod hath made thee as the stars ofheaven for multitude. Moses. Two thing;s are to he considered iu writiii«r historj, truth andelocution, for in truth cousisteth the soul, and in elocution the hodyof history ; the latter without the former, is hut a picture of liis
A character of the province of Maryland : described in four distinct parts ; also a small treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland ..together with a collection of historical letters . GOWANS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. Tliy fathers went down into Eg^^it witli three score and ten])ersons, and now the Lord thy (iod hath made thee as the stars ofheaven for multitude. Moses. Two thing;s are to he considered iu writiii«r historj, truth andelocution, for in truth cousisteth the soul, and in elocution the hodyof history ; the latter without the former, is hut a picture of liistory ;the fonner without the latter, una])t to instruct. The ])riucii)le andproper work of history, being to instruct, and enaVde men by theirknowledge of actions past, to bear themselves prudently in tliepresent, and providently towards the future. T. NEW YORK:WILLIAM GOWANS 1869. Dm •^
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