Entries from April 2007

April 13, 2007

Item of the Day: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1758)

Full Title: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By John Brown. Seventh Edition. London, Printed;  Boston, New-England: Re-printed and sold by Green and Russell, at their Printing-Office in Queen-Street, MDCCLVIII.
PART I.
A Delineation of the Ruling Manners and Principles.
 SECT. I.
THE DESIGN.
SUPERFICIAL, though zealous, Observers, think they see the Source of all our [...]

April 12, 2007

Item of the Day: Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (1778)

Full Title:  Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. By J. Carver, Esq.  Captain of a company of Provincial Troops During the Late War with France.  London:  Printed for the Author; And Sold by J. Walter, at Charing-cross, and S. Crowder, in Pater-noster Row. MDCCLXXVIII.
INTRODUCTION.
No sooner was the [...]

April 11, 2007

Item of the Day: Dr. Mayhew’s Election Sermon (1754)

Full Title:  A Sermon Preach’d in the Audience of His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; Captain General, Governour and Commander in Chief, The Honourable His Majesty’s Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, Of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England May 29th 1754.  Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty’s Council for [...]

April 9, 2007

Item of the Day: The History of the Province of New-York (1776)

Full Title:  The History of the Province of New-York, From the First Discovery, To Which is Annexed a Description of the Country, An Account of the Inhabitants, Their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in that Colony by William Smith A.M.  London: Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, [...]

April 5, 2007

Item of the Day: Preface from the Letters of Junius (1772)

 Full Title:  The Letters of Junius.   Vol. I. London:  Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall, in Pater Noster Row. MDCCLXXII.
 PREFACE.
It remains to say a few words upon the liberty of the press.  The daring spirit, by which these letters are supposed to be distinguished, seems to require that something serious should be said in their defence.  [...]

April 4, 2007

Item of the Day: An Account of the European Settlements by William Burke and Edmund Burke (1758)

Full Title:  An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of the Discovery of that Part of the World.  II.  The Manners and Customs of the Original Inhabitants.  III.  Of the Spanish Settlements.  IV. Of the Portuguese.  V.  Of the French, Dutch, and Danish.  VI.  Of the English.  [...]

April 3, 2007

Item of the Day: Harris’s Hermes (1751)

Full Title:
Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal Grammar, by James Harris. Printed in London by H. Woodfall, for J. Nourse oppostie to Catherine-street, and P. Vaillant facing Southampton-street, in the Strand. 1751.
From the Preface:
THE chief End, proposed by the Author of this Treatise in making it public, has been to excite his [...]

April 2, 2007

Item of the Day: The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America (1788)

Full Title:  The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America:  Including An Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their Origin to that Period. By William Gordon, D.D. Quid Verium***Curo, et Rogo, Et Omnis in Hoc Sum. Horat. 1 Ep. 1 Lib. [...]