1709, that is. The New Yorker illuminates us with what our ancestors were reading a few hundred years ago.
From the piece...
1. Daniel Leeds. “The American Almanack.” All but three books published in 1709 were religious tracts, printed in Boston, and nearly all of them have to do with the day of judgment. Leeds’s almanac, printed in New York, is the only truly secular publication of the year, which fact alone makes it a stand out. It also boasts some wonderfully bad doggerel: “His neighbours Horse that over his fence doth neigh / Will make his owner, for’s presumption, pay.” At least the horse isn’t dead.
2. Thomas Doolittle. “A Prospect of Eternity,” (pictured above). For its cheering message about the importance of “weaning our hearts of this world.”
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