A Characterof the Province of Maryland byGeorge Alsop
A Character of the Province of MARYLAND.
BY GEORGE ALSOP.
1666.
Baltimore, 1880.
ALSOP’S MARYLAND.
1666.
REISSUED AS Fund-Publication, No. 15.
A Character of the Province of MARYLAND.
BY GEORGE ALSOP.
1666.
Baltimore, 1880.
GOWANS’ BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. 5
“Thy fathers went down into Egypt with three score andten persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars ofheaven for multitude.” . . . Moses.
“Two things are to be considered in writinghistory, truth and elocution, for in truth consisteth the soul, andin elocution the body of history; the latter without the former,is but a picture of history; the former without the latter, unaptto instruct. The principle and proper work of history, being toinstruct, and enable men by their knowledge of actions past, to bearthemselves prudently in the present, and providently towards thefuture.” . . . T. Hobbes.
NEW YORK:
WILLIAM GOWANS.
1869.
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A CHARACTER OF THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND. DESCRIBED IN FOUR DISTINCT PARTS. ALSO A SMALL TREATISE ON THE WILD AND NAKED INDIANS (ORSUSQUEHANOKES) OF MARYLAND, THEIR CUSTOMS,MANNERS, ABSURDITIES, AND RELIGION. TOGETHER WITH A COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL LETTERS.
BY GEORGE ALSOP.
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COPIOUSHISTORICAL NOTES.