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05-03-2008, 08:12 PM
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05-03-2008, 08:45 PM
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| | | The Full title: Milk For Babes Out of the Two Breasts of the Old and New Testaments. |
05-03-2008, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by nleshelman  The Full title: Milk For Babes Out of the Two Breasts of the Old and New Testaments. | Actually, the full title is: Milk for Babes Drawn of the Breasts of both Testaments. Chiefly, for the spiritual nourishment of Boston Babes in either England: But may be of like use for Children. | | The Following User Says Thank You to VirginiaHuguenot For This Useful Post: | |
05-03-2008, 10:15 PM
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| | That is the full full title. 
Thanks for it though. It is a useful catechism. |
05-04-2008, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot Quote:
Originally Posted by nleshelman The Full title: Milk For Babes Out of the Two Breasts of the Old and New Testaments. | Actually, the full title is: Milk for Babes Drawn of the Breasts of both Testaments. Chiefly, for the spiritual nourishment of Boston Babes in either England: But may be of like use for Children. | What a brilliant title.  |
05-04-2008, 02:04 PM
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| | | What is a Boston Babe? I am wondering if it is as simple as it seems or if there is some contemporary reference that I am missing. |
05-04-2008, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by py3ak What is a Boston Babe? I am wondering if it is as simple as it seems or if there is some contemporary reference that I am missing. |  |
05-05-2008, 08:10 PM
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| | | What's this? Is the PuritanBoard Librarian stringing me along? |
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Originally Posted by py3ak What's this? Is the PuritanBoard Librarian stringing me along? | Well, I think the expression pre-dates "chicks" or any reference to Babe Ruth. "Babes" is compared to "children." Another edition of this catechism is entitled "Milk for Babes, rendred [sic] now a little more Easy & Proper for Children of the Smallest Capacity." Therefore, I take "Babes" to mean little ones but I'm not able to define it more precisely at the moment. I am just remembering my youth in Boston and how "Boston Babes" had a different meaning for me in days gone by. |
05-05-2008, 08:41 PM
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| | | Yes, Andrew, I definitely picked up on the "babes" as "babies" or "toddlers". It just seemed a little strange to make a Catechism for Boston small children in either England if Boston was meant as the name of the New England city. |
05-05-2008, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by py3ak Yes, Andrew, I definitely picked up on the "babes" as "babies" or "toddlers". It just seemed a little strange to make a Catechism for Boston small children in either England if Boston was meant as the name of the New England city. | There is a Boston, Massachusetts (New England) and a Boston, (Old) England. |
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| | | I suppose he was just being cute. I regret his exclusion of Liverpool babes, but you can't please anyone. | |
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