The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: a History
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279 lighted now, somewliat dingily, indeed, yet still suffi- ciently to enable us to discern a table covered "with maps and legal parcliments, round whicb are ranged a score of deeply-interested talkers.
That tall, handsome, gentlemanly man, who sits at the head of the table, is John Winthrop, the new governor. See what an easy grace there is in his every movement ; he has the port of one habituated to command, yet he is very gentle withal. His hair is just touched with silver, and he is in the... prime of life — just forty-two, ripe and mellow. Winthrop is not a needy, sour adventurer ; he comes of an an- cient family long seated at Groton, in Suffolk, where he has a property whose income yields him six or seven hundred pounds a year — the equivalent of at least ten thousand dollars now-a-days. Evidently he quits England from some higher motive than to fatten his exchequer. This is he whom Cotton Mather terms the " Lycurgus of New England ;" " as devout as Numa, but not liable to any of his heathenish madnesses ; a governor in whom the ex- cellences of Christianity made a most imposing addi- tion unto the virtues wherein even without these he would have made a parallel for the great men of Greece and Rome whom the pen of Plutarch has eternized."* A calm, unobtrusive, able gentleman, Winthrop had "studied that book, which, profes- sing to teach polities, had but three leaves, and on each leaf, but one word — moderation." He had been initiated into the mysteries of state-craft when Magnalia, vol.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
279 lighted now, somewliat dingily, indeed, yet still suffi- ciently to enable us to discern a table covered "with maps and legal parcliments, round whicb are ranged a score of deeply-interested talkers.
That tall, handsome, gentlemanly man, who sits at the head of the table, is John Winthrop, the new governor. See what an easy grace there is in his every movement ; he has the port of one habituated to command, yet he is very gentle withal. His hair is just touched with silver, and he is in the... prime of life — just forty-two, ripe and mellow. Winthrop is not a needy, sour adventurer ; he comes of an an- cient family long seated at Groton, in Suffolk, where he has a property whose income yields him six or seven hundred pounds a year — the equivalent of at least ten thousand dollars now-a-days. Evidently he quits England from some higher motive than to fatten his exchequer. This is he whom Cotton Mather terms the " Lycurgus of New England ;" " as devout as Numa, but not liable to any of his heathenish madnesses ; a governor in whom the ex- cellences of Christianity made a most imposing addi- tion unto the virtues wherein even without these he would have made a parallel for the great men of Greece and Rome whom the pen of Plutarch has eternized."* A calm, unobtrusive, able gentleman, Winthrop had "studied that book, which, profes- sing to teach polities, had but three leaves, and on each leaf, but one word — moderation." He had been initiated into the mysteries of state-craft when Magnalia, vol.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by W Carlos William Carlos Martyn to read onlineMoreLess
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