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Title: The Belgicke pismire: stinging the slothfull sleeper, and avvaking the diligent to fast, watch, pray, and worke ovt their owne temporall and eternall salvation with feare and trembling.Author: Thomas ScottPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03000700CollectionID: CTRG99-B1221PublicationDate: 16220101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: A tract in favor of the Low Countries and against the marriage of Prince Charles of England and the Infanta of Spain. Authorship attributed to Thomas Scott by Sabin. Fictitious imprint; printed in the Netherlands. Cf. BLC, STC (2nd ed.) This edition is known to exist in at least three states. In the first, the errata listed on the t.p. verso are uncorrected in the text, p. 100 is numbered, and line 9, p. [5] at front contains the word "vvisedome." In the second, the errata listed on the t.p. verso are corrected in the text, p. [100] is unnumbered, and line 9, p. [5] at front contains the word "wisedome." In the third, there is no errata on the t.p. verso, the errata listed in the previous states are corrected in the text, p. [100] is unnumbered, the word "watch" on the t.p. is misspelled "watgh," and line 9, p. [5] at front contains the word "wisdome." Cf. BLC, STC (2nd ed.)Collation: 99 p.; 20 cm
