Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania volume 5

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the charge of ilHteracy and inelegance, and to prove, that al- though the austerity of their religion and the hardness of their fortunes may have at first prevented any great patronage of the elegant arts, yet that competence and leisure quickly mitigated this severity, and the society of colonists became to soft refinements less ;t foe, Wit grew polite, a
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POSTSCRIPT.
Since the foregoing pages were prepared for the press, I have had in my hands several copy books of the familiar letters of James Logan, and find that his name must be added to the catalogue of our early poets.
It seems that he translated into English verse, for the use of his daughters, the Distichs of Cato, and that this version is in print.
It appears, also, that he was particularly ready at Latin versification, and that he frequently addressed to his learned friends, playful odes or epistles in Roman numbers.


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