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While Fairfax's friend Sgt. Meryll and Meryll's amorous daughter Phoebe plot his escape, the convicted sorcerer resolves to deprive his kinsman of the pecuniary benefits of his treachery by wedding an unknown bride before his execution. The rescue comes too late to prevent the marriage of Fairfax to...
In 1786 Massachusetts "decriminalized" fornication, substituting a fine for criminal indictment; in time even that was rarely collected. The law against missing church on Sunday was not seriously enforced after the 1780s; by the 1790s there were only half as many prosecutions a year for religious offenses as before the...
Unfortunately, Bercovitch's own rhetorical strategy is far less compelling. The basic plan of his book--which begins with a close textual analysis of Mather's study of Winthrop and expands into an examination of its cultural context and implications as a testament to American identity--is potentially workable, even...
Geographical mysteries were thus solved, but the region's weakened and debased societies and its fever-ridden travelers remained baffling to each other. In 1854 a German Lutheran explorer named Heinrich Earth was detained in Timbuctoo for eight months before rival political factions agreed to release him. An Arab...
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