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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Such was the original Design of erecting Statues, and if in Venice, there were at once, no less than an Hundred and sixty two Marble, and Twenty three Brazen Statues, erected by the Order, and at the Expense, of the Public, in Honour of so many Valiant Soldiers, who had merited well of that Common-Wealth, I am sure New-England has had those, whose Merits call for as good an acknowledgement, and, whatever they did before, it will be well, if after Sir William Phips, they find many as meritorious as he to be so acknowledged.
Such was the original Design of erecting Statues, and if in Venice, there were at once, no less than an Hundred and sixty two Marble, and Twenty three Brazen Statues, erected by the Order, and at the Expence, of the Publick, in Honour of so many Valiant Souldiers, who had merited well of that Common-Wealth, I am sure New-England has had those, whose Merits call for as good an acknowledgment, and, whatever they did before, it will be well, if after Sir William Phips, they find many as meritorious as he to be so acknowledged.
Now I cannot my self provide a better Statue for this Memorable Person, then the Words uttered on the occasion of his Death in a very great Assembly, by a Person of so diffused and Embalmed a Reputation in the Church of God, that such a Character from him, were enough to Immortalize the Reputation of the Person upon whom he should bestow it.
Now I cannot my self provide a better Statue for this Memorable Person, then the Words uttered on the occasion of his Death in a very great Assembly, by a Person of so diffus'd and Embalm'd a Reputation in the Church of God, that such a Character from him, were enough to Immortalize the Reputation of the Person upon whom he should bestow it.
The Grecians employed still the most Honourable and Considerable Persons they had among them, to make a Funeral Oration, in Commendation of Soldiers that had lost their Lives, in the Service of the Public: And when Sir William Phips, the Captain