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The New England Primer |
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The letter X presented difficulties that were gotten around in this way : —
EXHORT one another daily, while it is called To Day, left any of you be hardened thro' the Deceitfulnefs of Sin. |
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The feature of most interest was Rogers burning at the stake, with his wife and ten children looking on. Every youthful primer owner counted those children to make sure the statement of the text as to their number was correct. Of course the readers never suspected that the scene in the engraving was at all fictitious— yet history only records of Rogers's wife and children that they " met him |
the primer that perhaps aroused an illustration depicting Mr. John |
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