NOTE: This was a little more detail here than I wanted, but it was interesting enough to keep me going all the way through. Over the course of two months, I plodded through these six hundred pages with overall less enjoyment than I had hoped for, particularly during the order-of-battle sections, ...
Martha was a widow with two children, twenty-eight years old, pretty rather than beautiful, and extraordinarily wealthy. Her children—Patsy, two years old, and Jack, four—were healthy and much loved by their mother. More than her money made Martha attractive to young men. She was a gentle person,...
Here the State, acting with the churches, still might play its part. Mather's expectations that in a nation committed to do-good the old alliance would retain its value is clearly put in Bonifacius: "When Moses and Aaron join to do good, what can't they do?" 37 To seal the league and infuse it wi...