Volume 3, Image 5
Pastorius's Section Header: Several thousand / Crannies / of / F. D. P. s / Alphabetical Hive / in Folio, / Into which he Collected / I. Variety of Words, Phrases & Anglicisms, / II. Verity of Com[m]on Sayings & Proverbs, / III. Rarity of more Important Matters.
Pastorius's Description: NB. In the said Folio there are also above 1700. Onomastical Remarks / with an appropriated Index or Table / every whit as large as this. // A Book which Treasures up all Learning in a Sum[m], / Some other men would call, GAZOPHYLACHIM; / But I intitle mine an Alvear, or Hive: / (At this, (as I suppose), the Reader will connive,) / Because I do prefer a Honey-Comb to Gold, / To Silver and to Plate, belov'd by Young & Old; / Esteeming Jewels less than Knowledge Arts & Wit, / Than Wisdom, valued so much in Holy Writ. &c. / Prov. 1:7. & 3:13.14. & 4:5.6.7. & 7:4. & 8.per totum. & 9:11. / & 10.31. & 14:8. & 16:16. & 18:1,2. & 19:8. & 23:23. / & 24:3./. & 28:2. & 29:3. &c. / Neither are Quakers against true Learning, Knowledge / Arts & Sciences, vid. Rob. Barcl. Apol. prop. 10. §.18./. / Is. Pennington part 2 pag. 259. Wm Penn's Address / to Protestants of all Perswasuins pag. 147.
Section: Octavo Index Front Matter
Content: Title Page to Octavo Index
Type: Introductory Material
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