Biographical Sketches (PDF, MOBI, EPUB, FB2, TEXT)
prayer: in the deep midnight their cry rang through the forest; and
daylight dawned upon the lifeless clay of all but one. It was a
circumstance not to be unnoticed by our stern ancestors, in considering
the fate of her who had so troubled their religion, that an infant
daughter, the sole survivor amid the terrible destruction of her
mother's household, was bred in a barbarous faith, and never learned the
way to the Christian's heaven. Yet we will hope that there the mother
and child have met.
SIR WILLIAM PHIPS.
Few of the personages of past times (except such as have gained renown
in fireside legends as well as in written history) are anything more
than mere names to their successors. They seldom stand up in our
imaginations like men. The knowledge communicated by the historian and
biographer is analogous to that which we acquire of a country by the
map,--minute, perhaps, and accurate, and available for all necessary
purposes, but cold and naked, and wholly destitute of the mimic charm
produced