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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

First-class Telescope to see the MANNERS of a Past
          Age.—Difficulties of Near-sighted and Long-sighted
          People.—Near Objects more embarrassing to the Observer
          than Distant.—Why?—The Ghosts of the Past.—The Manners
          and Dress of Stuyvesant, Eliot, Calvert, Rolfe, etc.
          described.—Manners of the Mass detailed; in their Work,
          Play, Diet, Courtship, Fashions, Treatment of Young
          Ladies and Gentlemen, Children, Servants, etc.—Superior
          Advantages of Paterfamilias then in making Acquaintance
          with his Wife and Children.—Fast Girls and Calicoes.—The
          Isothermal Lines of ETHICS.—Certain Vices, like Eggs,
          laid secretly and hatched afterwards.—The Fashions of
          Crime at various Epochs compared.—Jails and
          Jail-Birds.—The ingenious Crimes of Trade, Corporations,
          Schools, and Seminaries noted.—How Sects are frozen or
          thawed by Temperature.—Northern and Southern
          Sectarianism.—Why Episcopacy flourished in Warm
          Latitudes.—The early Commercial Morality of New
          York.—Baptists, Congregationalists, and
          Independents.—The HABITS of the Century; their Material,
          Color, Durability, and Wear.—The LAWS mainly
          imported.—What a Business the Colonists carried on,
          notwithstanding, in the Domestic Article.—Kindness of
          the Proprietors in furnishing Ready-made Office-holders
          not appreciated.—American Itch for Law-making.—Laws
          against Criminals.—Their Crimson Color.—How the Rains of
          Mercy fell on hard Enactments, and the Thaw which
          followed.—Coroners’ Inquests sat upon.—Verdicts under
          various Lights.—Justices of the Peace, and the Law they
          peddled.—Administrations of Law then and now
          contrasted.—How Colors, although imponderable, turned
          the Judicial Scales.


 XI.    THE COLONIES IN THE LOWER HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY     194

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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