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...LITERARY KEY to late Puritan ideology, Bercovitch chooses not the jeremiads but Cotton Mather's epic work, the Magnalia Christi Americana--particularly his "Life of John Winthrop." In his "Life," Mather portrays Winthrop as a "Nehemius Americanus," a peculiarly American saviour whose life foreshadows the Second Coming. Mather's ambition, according to Bercovitch, is to be the Winthrop of his generation; writing during the decline of theocracy, Mather, he says, offered himself--in his capacity as a representative American type--as a link between the triumphal era of Winthrop and the millenial future, thus initiating a special mode of defining...
...paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In the musty chaos of books-memoirs, Shakespeare, Chinese history, the Arctic, the Civil War, Egypt-a visitor to Lowdermilk...
Funds for the project will come from the endowments of the Belknap Press, and will be used to print about five or six books a year. Among the works being considered for the first printing are Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Howard Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware, and William Stith's History of Virginia...
Cotton Mather, whose father was in College in Dunster's time paid a tribute in the "Magnalia" to the learning piety, and saintliness of the first President. Of his humaneness we have a few precious contemporary records. Dunster married the widow Glover, whose first husband brought over the famous printing, first in the English colonies. With the widow, Dunster acquired the press--which was operated in his house, on the site of Massachusetts Hall...
...flat Major, Mozart "Mirage," A. L. Steinert '22 Alborado del Grazioso, Ravel "Ebb on with me across the sunset tide," M. M. Smith '20 "Secrecy," Wolf "I attempt from love's sickness to fly," Purcell Sonata for flute, violin and piano, Gluck "The place where the rainbow ends,"from Magnalia Suite, R. N. Dett, Sp. "His Song," from "In the bottoms' Suite, R. N. Dett, Sp. Quintet for flute, clarinet, viola, 'cello and pianoforte, R. Thompson...
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