“if you had not taken advantage of her easy nature, some other would, and where is the difference, pray?”

from this instant our connexion is at an end

tax her with her falsehood,

brat

little foolish, fond girl chose to leave her friends, and run away with you to America

farewell

each him to lament my miseries,

which heaven forbid

But sure you cannot refuse to protect my innocent infant: it partakes not of its mother’s guilt.

urged to take the fatally imprudent step, by one of my own sex, who, under the mask of friendship

and I will see that the letter is sent by the first packet

His visit was not long, but before he went he fixed a scorpion in the heart of Charlotte, whose venom embittered every future hour of her life.

friendship

she saw a note

“I am a villain,”

ardour and sincerity

impulse

melancholy Charlotte, and endeavour to forget this fascinating Julia

he forgot Charlotte, and indulged himself in saying every thing that was polite and tender to Julia

Montraville was introduced to her

JULIA Franklin

he may leave her in a moment to shame and want; he may marry and forsake her for ever

but the poor girl by thoughtless passion led astray, who, in parting with her honour, has forfeited the esteem of the very man to whom she has sacrificed every thing dear and valuable in life

deep regret and anguish of heart, no kind friend of her own sex to whom she can unbosom her griefs, no beloved mother, no woman of character will appear in my company, and low as your Charlotte is fallen, she cannot associate with infamy

Let not the reader imagine Belcour’s designs were honourable.

Belcour as a villain who had seduced her from her friends under promise of marriage, and afterwards betrayed her,

make her not a mother, lest she should one day feel what I now suffer.”

seduced her from her duty

shall not be surprized at any outrage which Montraville may commit, when he finds himself disappointed

“to ask the assistance of heaven that you may continue to deserve their love. Continue, my dear Charlotte, in the course you have ever pursued, and you will insure at once their happiness and your own.”

I have forgot all that I ought to have remembered, in consenting to this intended elopement.

I see you never loved me.

Montraville therefore concluded it was impossible he should ever marry Charlotte Temple; and what end he proposed to himself by continuing the acquaintance he had commenced with her, he did not at that moment give himself time to enquire.

young men frequently rush into matrimonial engagements

“I know not what to say,” cried Charlotte, struggling to draw her hands from him: “let me leave you now.”

Self, darling self, was the idol he worshipped

Charlotte had taken one step in the ways of imprudence; and when that is once done, there are always innumerable obstacles to prevent the erring person returning to the path of rectitude: yet these obstacles, however forcible they may appear in general, exist chiefly in imagination.

at yonder lovely Virgin

ell me, ye thoughtless daughters of folly, have ye ever found the phantom you have so long sought with such unremitted assiduity?

the sense of shame in her own bosom, when once she has lost sight of the basis on which reputation, honour, every thing that should be dear to the female heart, rests, she grows hardened in guilt

foolish little prude

In affairs of love, a young heart is never in more danger than when attempted by a handsome young soldier. A man of an indifferent appearance, will, when arrayed in a military habit, shew to advantage; but when beauty of person, elegance of manner, and an easy method of paying compliments, are united to the scarlet coat, smart cockade, and military sash, ah! well-a-day for the poor girl who gazes on him: she is in imminent danger; but if she listens to him with pleasure, ’tis all over with her, and from that moment she has neither eyes nor ears for any other object.

The levity of the gentlemen and the freedom of their conversation disgusted her.

young officer

Hymen

Miss Weatherby

But in whose breast no virtues glow

his heart had not been rendered callous by being convinced of its fraud and hypocrisy

goes to a lodging near the bridge

How she supported herself in these trying moments, I know not: heaven, no doubt, was with her

omething like satisfaction darting across his features

ut in vain; they forced open her arms; she shrieked, and fell prostrate. But pardon me. The horrors of that night unman me

soldier.

protect that fair bud of innocence

pellucid

sorrow had nipped the rose in her cheek before it was half blown

and he beheld his sisters legally prostituted to old, decrepid men, whose titles gave them consequence in the eyes of the world, and whose affluence rendered them splendidly miserable.

three whole days

a musket ball from our friends, the Americans,

she being then only thirteen

but conscious that I wrote with a mind anxious for the happiness of that sex whose morals and conduct have so powerful an influence on mankind in general;

but from the more dangerous arts of the profligate of their own

silent tomb:

fair sex

Tale of Truth

ignoramuses

animal powers, I yield them undisputed to that sex, which enjoys them in common with the lion, the tyger, and many other beasts of prey

you are by nature formed for our protectors; we pretend not to vie with you in bodily strength; upon this point we will never contend for victory

Nay, we have even more leisure for sedentary pleasures, as our avocations are more retired, much less laborious,

Though sensibility, soft compassion, and gentle commiseration, are inmates in the female bosom

et serious studies equally employ our minds,

ye haughty sex

minds are by nature equal

slander

variety of fashions

imagination, reason, memory and judgment

.

manly fires

They rob us of the power t’improve,

Neither should those to whom nature had been parsimonious,

sweet form, shall serve but as a polished casket

will smile at your undoing

you must learn “to reverence yourself,” that is, your intellectual existence;

rational being

to teach young minds to aspire, ought to be the ground work of education

they arrest the stream of due admiration, and endeavour to divest her of all idea of the bounties of nature:

compass of mortality, was placed within their grasp, and that, the avidity of application, the intenseness of study

in the path of wisdom

Self-estimation

Ne’er taught to “rev’rence self,” or to aspire, Our bosoms never caught ambition’s fire

geometry

chequered world

Spaniards

Ten Dollars for me

But the Providence of God

Devils

Molatto

being now destitute of every Help, we knew not what to do or what

inhuman Barbarity of the Indians in murdering the whole Ship’s Crew

that shall have been collected, at a later time, they shall be exactable and reimbursed in the year that follows the lifting of sequestration of goods.

it shall be at the charge of the city or town for which it performs services

Courts of first instance and by Courts of appeal

Governor

propose laws

chief commander

General or the senior General of equal rank, who is in active service in the colony, shall take, of right, if provisionally, the control the govermnent.

Generals and Chief Commanders of Departments, shall meet at the ordinary place of hearing of the Central Assembly. to the effect of nominating, concurrently with the members of this Assembly, the new Governor or continue the administration of the one who is in function.

attribute exclusively to this general the right to designate the citizen who, in the unfortunate event of the general’s death, shall immediately replace him

remainder of his glorious life.

constant family, of which the owner of the land or his representative shall be the father.

Property is sacred and inviolable

shall be the only publicly professed faith.

abolished

French.

Toussaint’s Constitution (Excerpt)

sound morality.

household economy

Reason and fact, plain and unadorned, are rejected

novels, and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed

solid education

It is not their condition then, but nature, which has produced the distinction.

scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid;

In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection.

require less sleep

odour

difference of no importance

when they should be colonized to such place

narrow streight

exempt them from excessive drudgery

The stronger sex therefore imposes on the weaker.

barbarous people

his vivacity and activity of mind is equal to ours in the same situation

Notes on the State of Virginia

study of nothing.

produces only atheists and fanatics.

derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity

evidence

The history of him is altogether the work of other people;

The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.

Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.

The Almighty hath implanted in us these unextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes

Ye that tell us of harmony and reconciliation, can ye restore to us the time that is past? Can ye give to prostitution its former innocence? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and America. The last cord now is broken

But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony, be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.

THE LAW IS KING

CONTINENTAL CHARTER, or Charter of the United Colonies; (answering to what is called the Magna Carta of England

Let each colony be divided into six, eight, or ten, convenient districts, each district to send a proper number of delegates to Congress,

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

I offer the following hints

No man can assign the least pretence for his fears, on any other grounds, than such as are truly childish and ridiculous, viz. that one colony will be striving for superiority over another

And a government which cannot preserve the peace, is no government at all

Pharaoh

Bunker-hill

As Britain hath not manifested the least inclination towards a compromise,

as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the Persecuted in future years

the trade of America goes to ruin

directly to involve this continent in European wars and quarrels;

not a single advantage is derived.

that her motive was INTEREST not ATTACHMENT; that she did not protect us from OUR ENEMIES on OUR ACCOUNT, but from HER ENEMIES on HER OWN ACCOUNT, from those who had no quarrel with us on any OTHER ACCOUNT, and who will always be our enemies on the SAME ACCOUNT

America

struggle between England and America.

unmanly

Mr. Pelham

Common Sense (Excerpt)

It was a pure delight, which fed and satisfied the soul. It was peasure

sweet

nothing that you can do

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you

bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow

nothing but the mere pleasure of God that holds the waters back,

were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you

were made for men to serve God with

he earth would not bear you one moment

APPLICATION The use may be of awakening to unconverted persons in this congregation.

God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death,

arbitrary

God’s appointed time is not come

sweet,

express, emptied and annihilated; to lie in the dust, and to be full of Christ alone; to love him with a holy and pure love; to trust in him; to live upon him; to serve and follow him; and to be perfectly sanctified and made pure, with a divine and heavenly purity

panted

opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory

ejaculatory prayer,

longings

sweet, and gentle

sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ

self­righteous pleasure;

awakening

This Rampant Hag

One Lacy, who likewise confessed her share in this Witchcraft, now testify’d, that she and the prisoner were once Bodily present at a Witch-meeting in Salem Village;

greatly swollen, and very painful; as also part of her Face; whereof she can give no account how[Pg 158] it came

lost his Cattle, by strange Deaths, whereof no natural causes could be given.

He was brought unto Death’s Door

Gallons of Corruption

Opinion in these Matters

whole PLOT of the Devil, against New-England,

And because I was concern’d, when I saw that no abler Hand emitted any Essays to engage the Minds of this People

Time of the Devils

Dan­vers gets posi­tioned, against Salem, as the free, unmarked, real site of the trials…and this keeps the tourists away

free to enter

Though most tourists would get a thrill from stand­ing in the exact place that Sarah Osborne once lived, the promise of this thrill is not strong enough to over­come the promises that Salem can make. By script­ing and then stag­ing his­tory, Salem can pro­duce an authen­tic­ity that Dan­vers fails to pro­vide.