The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life before the RevolutionGoodwin, Maud Wilder
History
The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life before the Revolution
Goodwin, Maud Wilder
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775; Upper class -- Southern States
The History of ffrance the
first and fourth volumes of the turkish spy Sermons on several
occasions resolutions and devisions of Cases of Conscience Plutarchs
Morals the Second Volume and the third. A Manual Anatomy England's
General Description Shakespears Works. Second Volume of Tom Browns
Works Copies of Certain Letters. Ancient and the present State of the
Empire of Germany. The Shepards oracles. Physoignomie and Chiromancy
The Genral View of the Holy Scriptures The practice of piety The great
law of consideration Trigonometrie Of generosity and constancy in the
faith The History of the Revolutions in Sweeden The Marrow of
Chyrurgery Toleration discuss'd. Letters of Remarkables in Switzerland
The office of Executors a Companion for a Chyrurgeon The Critick The
Lively Oracles The heaven of health The history of the Conquest of
China Valentine and Orson. a Discourse on the Sacraments Some Motives
to the Love of God. an Introduction to the Skill of Musick. Sermons
and Discourses some of which never before printed. The Nature of Truth
discuss'd The Method of physick The new London Dispensatory. a
Compendius Dictionary Milk for Babes an Introduction to the Eight
parts of Latin speech The use of piety The European Mercury The Books
of psalms. Notes on Mr. Lockes Essay of Human Understanding Britains
Remembrancer An Infallible way to Contentment a view of all the
religions in the world A Description of the Little world. The
portraiture of his sacred Maj{ty} in his solitudes and suferings The
London Dispensatory English Examples a Short Introduction to Gramar a
Short Catechisme The Esopps ffables Works of M{r} Tho{s} Southerne
Eight Lattin Books.
Master Ralph Wormeley's library numbered several hundred volumes, and a
man might have found enough among them to gratify any inclination. If his
tastes were frivolous, here were "fifty comodys and tragedies," and "The
Genteel Siner." Were he an epicure, he might regale himself with "the body
of cookery," and revel in its appetizing recipes for potpies and the
proper method of roasting a sucking pig; and if his mind were piously
inclined, the resources of the library were unlimited. Side by side on its
shelves stood "No Cross, No Crowne," "The ffamous Doct{r} Usher's Body of
Divinity," "Doct{r} ffuller's Holy State," and last and longest, the
ninety-six sermons of the good parson Andros.
Some of these old colonial sermons came to an unprofitable end. A bundle
of them was laid away in a drawer, and, when sought for, it was learned
that they had been torn up and used by the damsels of the household as
curling-papers. The writer might have been at least half-satisfied in the
reflection that his discourses had touched the head, if not the heart.
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