Volume 1, Image 11
Pastorius's Description: For as much as our Memory is not capable to retain all remarkable Words, Phrases, Sciences & Makers of Moment, which we do hear and read, It becomes every good Scholar to have a Common-Place Book, & therein to Treasure up what ever deserves his Notice &c. And to the end that he may readily know, both whither to dispose and Insert each particular, as also where upon occasion to find the same again, &c. he ought to make himself an Alphabetical Index, like that of this Bee-Hive beginning infrà page 10 ./. And Seeing it is the largest of my Manuscripts, whch I in my riper Years did gather out of excellent English Authors, whose Names ye may see page 56. &c. My desire, Last Will and Testament is, that my Two Sons John Samuel and Henry Pastorius shall have & hold the same with the Rest of my Writings, mentioned infrà page 386. to themselves & their heirs for ever, and not to part with them for any thing in this World, but rather to add thereunto some of their Own, &c. Because the price of Wisdom is above Rubies, and cannot be Valued with the precious Onyx or Sapphire: and to get Understanding is rather to be chosen than Silver and Gold. &c. / Prov. 16:16. Job. 28:16, 18. / Francis Daniel Pastorius
Sections: Front Matter | Third Version
Content: Introduction to his Common-Place Book
Notes: This leaf was loose prior to rebinding.
Type: Introductory Material
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