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"A pleasant Land to see" Part Two
No full textThis is the concluding portion of an article, the first half of which appeared in the Journal for June, 1962, and consisting of a collection of passages by various authors describing New Jersey scenery. In this part there are passages about The Raritan River Valley, The Highlands of Navesink, Sandy Hook, Manasquan, Barnegat, The Pine Barrens, Timber Creek, Great Egg Harbor, and Cape May County
Thomas Paine and Robert Treat Pain: A Case of Mistaken Identity
No full textLesser points out there is a confusion, unusual in these days of precise scholarship, in the Thomas Paine bibliography, caused not by the authorship of the song, "Adams and Liberty," also known as "The Boston Patriotic Song," but by the errors which enabled the work to appear in two of the four complete editions of Thomas Paine's works. The real author of the song is Robert Treat Paine, Jr., a prominent Massachusetts Federalist, and the son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The author corrects this error
Earthquakes, Sin and John Shower
No full textThe article is about the earthquake of September 8, 1692, that hit the southeastern counties of England and parts of the Continent. It focuses on the contemporary account of John Shower in his "Practical Reflections on the Late Earthquakes in Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. Anno 1692. With a Particular, Historical Account of Those, and Divers Other Earthquakes" (1693). It represent a preacher's view of a natural disaster that moderates between religion and the new scientific spirit