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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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.
[…] Ask no further; Let this Writing […] the Wall to […], wh•re the ⟨p. 7⟩Hand only was to be seen, and not who's it was. The History is compiled with Incontestable▪ Veracity; and since there is no Ingenuity in it, but less than what many Pens in the Land might Command, he knows not why his Writing Anonymously may not […] him, from the Inconveniences of having any Notice, one way or other, taken of him Though among his other small Furniture, he hath not le•t himself unfurnished with skill in the Spanish Language, yet he never could bring himself to the Belief of the Spanish Proverb, Quien no parece, perece; i. e. He that appears not, perishes; He that Shows not himself to the world, […] undone. At Milan, there is an Academy o• Sensible Persons, called The Nascosti, or, Hidden men; At Venice, there is one of such persons called, The Incogniti; and at Parma, there is one of them, called, The Innominati. If there were nothing else Disagreeable in them, the Author of this History, would be glad of an Admission into such an Academy.
〈…〉 Ask no further; Let this Writing 〈…〉 the Wall to 〈…〉, wh•re the ⟨p. 7⟩Hand only was to be seen, and not who's it was. The History is compiled with Incontestable▪ Veracity; and since there is no Ingenuity in it, but less than what many Pens in the Land might Command, he knows not why his Writing Anonymously may not 〈…〉 him, from the Inconveniencies of having any Notice, one way or other, taken of him Though among his other small Furniture, he hath not le•t himself unfurnished with skill in the Spanish Language, yet he never could bring himself to the Belief of the Spanish Proverb, Quien no parece, perece; i. e. He that appears not, peri•hes; He that Shows not himself to the world, ndone. At Milain, there is an Academy o Sensible Persons, called The Nascosti, or, Hidden men; At Venice, there is one of such persons called, The Incogniti; and at Parma, there is one of them, called, The Innominati. If there were nothing else Disagreeable in them, the Author of this History, would be glad of an Admission into such an Academy.