Contents xiii
The Ebb and Flow 152
Upon the Sweeping Flood 152
A Fig for Thee [You] Oh! Death 153
Cotton Mather 154
From The Wonders of the Invisible World 155
From Magnalia Christi Americana 162
From Manuductio ad Ministerium 170
Samuel Sewall 173
From The Diary of Samuel Sewall 174
Mary Rowlandson 183
From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 184
William Byrd II 194
From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover 1709-1712 195
To Lucretia 199
From The History of the Dividing Line 201
John Woolman 207
From The Journal of John Woolman 208
Jonathan Edwards 215
Of Insects 217
Personal Narrative 222
From A Divine and Supernatural Light 231
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 236
From Imagies or Shadows of Divine Things 247
The Literature of Reason and Revolution 252
Benjamin Franklin 257
[Silence Dogood, No. 4] 259
Old Mistress Apologue 261
From Poor Richard Improved, 1758 263
The Sale of the Hessians 266
Speech in Convention 268
The Autobiography 269
Michel-Guillaume-Jean De Crèvecoeur 379
From Letters of an American Farmer 381
Letter III [Three] (What Is an American?) 381
Letter IX [Nine] (Description of Charleston…) 389