Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America

Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America
Author: Charles Knowles Bolton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1910
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a study of the emigration from Northern Ireland of persons of Scottish and English descent. Chapters are devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlements in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, and Massachusetts and include valuable lists of early pioneers. In addition, considerable space is devoted to the redoubtable settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The book's extensive appendices contain lists of great genealogical importance. Biographical information is to be met with throughout the volume.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616402911

In addition to the writer's 1624 collection of meditations, debates with God, and prayers on the human condition-particularly earthly physical sickness and health-this volume contains the 1631 work "Death's Duel," a sermon said to be his own funeral oration, which he preached shortly before his own death. Readers of 17th-century literature, religious devotionals, and ponderers of human mortality are sure to find something profound in this fascinating, famous work. British metaphysical poet JOHN DONNE (1572-1631), renowned for his satires on English society, wrote this prose work in the latter part of his life, after he became an Anglican priest.