Full Title:
The Prompter: Or, A Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects; Which are Full of Common Sense, The Best Sense in the World. “To see all others’ faults and feel our own.”
Printed in Philadelphia by Matthew Carey, 1796.
Number XIX
When a man is going down hill, every one gives him a kick.
This, it is said, [...]
Entries from February 2006
February 28, 2006
Item of the Day: Noah Webster’s The Prompter (1796)
February 23, 2006
Item of the Day: The Laws of Harvard College (1790)
Full Title: The Laws of Harvard College. Printed in Boston by Samuel Hall, 1790.
Chap. I. — Of Admission into the College
I. Candidates for admission into Harvard College shall be examined by the President, and two, at least, of the Tutors. No one shall be admitted, unless he can translate Greek, and Latin Authors in common [...]
February 21, 2006
Item of the Day: Letter from Timothy Pickering to Rufus King (1798)
Full Title: [ALS] Timothy Pickering, Trenton, to Rufus King, Esq, London September 15, 1798.
[Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) was serving as John Adams' Secretary of State when he wrote this letter in September 1798 to Adams' minister plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, Rufus King. In this letter, Pickering expresses his outrage over the XYZ affair. [...]
February 15, 2006
Item of the Day: Almon’s Asylum for Fugitive Pieces (1785)
Full Title:
An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection: With Several Pieces Never Before Published.
Edited by John Almon, 1737-1805. Continuation of The Foundling Hospital for Wit [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. With contents and publisher’s advertisement. Printed in London for J. Debrett, 1785.
From “A Political Receipt-Book for the [...]
February 9, 2006
Item of the Day: Mr. Mayhew’s Discourse Concerning Submission (1750)
Full Title: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: With some Reflections on the Resistance made to King Charles I and on the Anniversary of his Death: In which the Mysterious Doctrine of that Prince’s Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: The Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon preached in [...]
February 8, 2006
Item of the Day: The Young Woman’s Companion (1811)
Full Title:The Young Woman’s Companion: or, Frugal Housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary, managing and colouring foreign wines and spirits, making English wines, compounds, &c. &c. Also the art of cookery, containing directions for dressing all kinds of butchers’ meat, poultry, game, fish, &c. &c. &c. with the complete [...]
February 6, 2006
Item of the Day: Letter from John Tabor Kempe to Daniel Horsmanden (1763)
Full Title: Letter from John Tabor Kempe to Daniel Horsmanden with response from Horsmanden, July 14, 1763.
[John Tabor Kempe (1735-1795) served as the last Royal Attorney General of the Colonial Province of New York in 1759 . A Loyalist, Kempe returned to England after the Revolutionary War in 1783. Daniel Horsmanden (1691-1778) was appointed Chief [...]
