THE

COMPLETE WORKS

OF THE

HON. JOB DURFEE, LL. D.,

LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF RHODE-ISLAND;

WITH

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

EDITED BY HIS SON.

PROVIDENCE:

GLADDING AND PROUD.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1849.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848,

By THOMAS DURFEE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode-Island.

PROVIDENCE:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH KNOWLES.

PREFACE,

MEMOIR,

CONTENTS.

POEMS.

WHATCHEER, OR ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMENT,

THE SCHOOL OF QUEEN MAB,

A SUMMONS TO THE COUNTRY,

HYMN BY TWILIGHT,

LIFE'S VOYAGE,

LECTURES.

HISTORY OF THE SUBJECTION AND EXTERMINATION OF THE NAR-

RAGANSETS,

THE IDEA OF THE SUPERNATURAL AMONG THE INDIANS,

DISCOURSE

Delivered befoRE THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

ORATION

DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF BROWN

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