Address At the Celebration of the Building of the Old Meeting-House At Hingham, On the Eighth of August, 1881
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Their minds had narrowed to their fortunes ; their intellectual interests were scanty. Books were few ; in many households the Bible was the only one.
Even the Minister's library was but poorly supplied, and its shelves were for the most part loaded with treatises of controversial theology. The resources of English literature were unknown. Some of the chief glories of literature were prohibited. Shake- speare was a playwright, the minister of corruption.
For a century after the settlement of Ne...w England I find no evidence that there was a copy of Shake- speare in the colonies. 1 Pioneers and farmers have 1 Of course there are likely to have been a few copies in the hands of men not Puritan at heart ; but there is no reference to his works, so far as I know, in any New England book of this period. The student of New Eng- land life would give much for the catalogue of two collections of books, the first, the library of Mr. Winthrop the younger, to which Governor Winthrop refers in his History, under the year 1640, in a passage that curiously illus- trates the superstitious temper of the times, when even the wisest of the lead- ers of the Colony could write : " About this time there fell out a thing worthy 17 little leisure, and less inclination to read.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Their minds had narrowed to their fortunes ; their intellectual interests were scanty. Books were few ; in many households the Bible was the only one.
Even the Minister's library was but poorly supplied, and its shelves were for the most part loaded with treatises of controversial theology. The resources of English literature were unknown. Some of the chief glories of literature were prohibited. Shake- speare was a playwright, the minister of corruption.
For a century after the settlement of Ne...w England I find no evidence that there was a copy of Shake- speare in the colonies. 1 Pioneers and farmers have 1 Of course there are likely to have been a few copies in the hands of men not Puritan at heart ; but there is no reference to his works, so far as I know, in any New England book of this period. The student of New Eng- land life would give much for the catalogue of two collections of books, the first, the library of Mr. Winthrop the younger, to which Governor Winthrop refers in his History, under the year 1640, in a passage that curiously illus- trates the superstitious temper of the times, when even the wisest of the lead- ers of the Colony could write : " About this time there fell out a thing worthy 17 little leisure, and less inclination to read.
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