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Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened
Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deplorable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the premature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deporable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the praemature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1725
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To the Honourable Col. Isaac Winslow, And his Religious CONSORT.
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.
'TIS too soon, and this is not a place for me to say any thing of his FATHER, except what we find said on Joseph of Arimathea, He has been, An Honourable Counsellor.
'TIS too soon, and this is not a place for me to say any thing of his FATHER, except what we find said on Joseph of Arimath•a, He has been, An Honourable Counsellour.
UNTO such an Honourable Descent, there being added the Liberal Education which his FATHER bestowed upon him, to fit him for doing somewhat considerable in the World, what Expectations might have been reasonably raised of his doing something that should be worthy the Offspring of such Meritorious Ancestors!
UNTO such an Honourable Descent, there being added the Liberal Education which his FATHER bestow'd upon him, to fit him for doing somewhat considerable in the World, what Expectations might have been reasonably raised of his doing something that should be worthy the Offspring of such Meritorious Ancestors!
BUT our Sovereign GOD has Determined it, That all shall be comprised in this one Action; To lay down his Life in the Service of his Country: The Spark that was Mounting Upwards, and we knew not what Lustre he might anon arrive unto, must only give this Coup•d' Eclat, and fall down into the common Heap of Ashes: And instead of proceeding Master of Arts, as if he had Lived a Few Weeks more he would have done, receive the Laurel of, One who Died Fighting the Battles of the Lord.
BUT our Sovereign GOD has Determined it, That all shall be comprised in this one Action; To lay down his Life in the Service of his Country: The Spark that was Mounting Upwards, and we knew not what Lustre he might anon arrive unto, must only give this Coupd' Eclat, and fall down into the common Heap of Ashes: And instead of proceeding Master of Arts, as if he had Lived a Few Weeks more he would have done, receive the Laurel of, One who Died Fighting the Battels of the Lord.