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I. 1636-1700. 1 vol. 8vo. 574 pages. $2.50. "To trace the rise and progress of a State, the offspring of ideas that were novel and startling, even amid the philosophical speculations of the Seventeenth Century; whose birth was a protest against, whose infancy was a struggle with, and whose maturity was a triumph over, the retrograde tendency of established Puritanism; a State that was the second-born of persecution, whose founders had been doubly tried in the purifying fire; a State which, more than any other, has exerted, by the weight of its example, an influence to shape the political ideas of the present day, whose moral power has been, in the inverse ratio with its material importance; of which an eminent Historian of the United States has said that, had its territory 'corresponded to the importance and singularity of the principles of its early existence, the world would have been filled with wonder at the phenomena of its history, is a task not to be lightly attempted or hastily performed."
By the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. $1.00. The Ballad of Babie Bell, and other Poems. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. 75 cts. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. By Samuel Greene Arnold. Vol. 1. 1636-1700. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. $2.50.
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