Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361).
Summary
Examines how the spiritual beliefs and vision of America's founders shaped the country's history and culture and assesses the influence of the spiritual traditions of African slaves, Native Americans, and early mystical communities on colonial America.
"An eclectic mixture of autobiography, U.S. intellectual history, philosophical inquiry, and spiritual wonderment, this extended meditative essay examines "America as an Idea" by uncovering the latent wisdom of many of its shining lights: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. Needleman, a philosophy professor and author of Money and the Meaning of Life, reinterprets the lives of each of these leaders in the context of their strong spiritual beliefs and their contributions to unifying a deeply divided body politic. The author liberally quotes classical philosophers, historians, biographers, and the subjects themselves, and he often interjects his own life experiences and spiritual beliefs into his loosely structured narrative. Needleman also tackles what he considers to be America's two most grievous historical blemishes: the murder of Native American culture and slavery and suggests how America should confront these wrongs." [from the "Library Journal"]
Ancestry of Margaret Ann (Fritchey) Trahan; including the families of her great-great-grandparents: Barden, Bower, Fritchey, Hoon, House, Hover, Jackson, Losey, Maurer, Mead, Miller, Moore, Scheffer, Segraves, Stucker, Warren, with ancestral charts to Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and to royalty
"Limited to one hundred fifty copies"--V. 1, t.p. verso.
"Limited to one hundred copies"--V. 2,t.p. verso. LCHS has copy no. 57.
"Limited to two hundred copies"--V. 3, t.p. verso.
Limited ed. of 100 copies (v. 4).
"Limited to two hundred seventy-five copies"--V. 5, t.p. verso. LCHS has copy no. 175.
Errata slip inserted in v. 3.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents
v. 1. The genealogy of Otho Stevens, 1702-1771, together with Kent, Hills, Hastings, Smith, Proctor, Sproule, and associated lines -- v. 2. The genealogy of John Christian Croll, 1707-1758, together with Garber, Ivins, Shreve, Knowles, Freeman, Prence, Brewster, Mayo, Higgins, Linnell, and associated lines -- v. 3. The genealogy of Christian Gottlob Knauss, 1830-1885, together with Bahret, Binetsch, Nickse, Reumann, Weigand, Speer, Feierabend, Hess, and associated lines -- v. 4. The genealogy of Robert Pond, ?-1637, together with Shepard, Lindsay, Churchill, Foote, Dunbar, Conant, Benjamin, and associated lines -- v. 5. Errata and addenda to volumes I through IV.
An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.