Entries Tagged as '1790's'

May 6, 2008

Item of the Day: Almon’s Anecdotes (on Wm. Knox) (1797)

Full Title:
Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age.  Never Before Printed.  With an Appendix; Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers.  By the Author of Anecdotes of the Late Earl of Chatham.  In Three Volumes.  Volume II.  London: Printed for T. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley.  In [...]

April 23, 2008

Item of the Day: Rights of Man (1791)

Full Title: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.  Second Edition.  By Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress in the American War, and Author of the Work Intitled “Common Sense.”  London: Printed for J. S. Jordan, No. 166.  Fleet-Street.  MDCCXCI.
Preface to the English Edition.
From the part [...]

April 14, 2008

Item of the Day: The Revolution in France (1794)

Full Title: The Revolution in France, Considered in Respect to Its Progess and Effects. By an AMERICAN. [Noah Webster] New-York: (Printed and Published according to an act of Congress) By George Bunce, and Co. No. 64 Wall-Street. M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
 
PREFACE.
IN the progress of the French Revolution, candid men find much to praise, and much to censure. [...]

April 10, 2008

Item of the Day: Proceedings… Abolition Societies (1797)

Full Title:
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Fourth Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia, on the Third Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Seven, and Continued, By Adjournments, Until the Ninth Day of the Same Month, Inclusive.  Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah [...]

April 7, 2008

Item of the Day: The Universal Merchant (1797)

Full Title: The Universal Merchant, in Theory and Practice: Improved and Enlarged by W. J. Alldridge . . . First American Edition. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick’s=Head, No. 116, High-Street, M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]
DEDICATION,
TO THE
CITIZENS
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
I FEEL the greatest pleasure in presenting the following work to your consideration and use, [...]

March 27, 2008

Item of the Day: Franklin on the Slave Trade (1790/1836)

Full Title:
The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, And Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and A Life of the Author.  By Jared Sparks.  Volume II [of 9].  Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company. 
On The Slave Trade.
To the Editor of the Federal [...]

March 21, 2008

Item of the Day: Gallatin’s Sketch of the Finances (1796)

Full Title:
A Sketch of the Finances of the United States.  By Albert Gallatin.  New York: Printed by William A. David, No. 438 Pearl Street.  1796.
[...]  The tax upon snuff manufactured within the United States, was first laid on the quantity manufactured, at the rate of eight cents per pound, and during the six months ending [...]

March 20, 2008

Item of the Day: Pye’s Poetics of Aristotle (1792)

Full Title:
A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle, By Examples Taken Chiefly from the Modern Poets.  To Which is Prefixed, A new and corrected edition of the Translation of the Poetic.  By Henry James Pye, Esq.  London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly.  M.DCC.XCII.
COMMENTARY.  Chap. I. Note I.
The Epopee and Tragedy, as also comedy and dithyrambics, [...]

March 18, 2008

Item of the Day: Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (1797)

Full Title: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Volume the Third. A New Edition. London: Printed for a. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (Successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, M.DCC.XCVII.
See earlier post here.
Chap. XX.
The Motives, Progress, and Effects of the Conversion of [...]

March 17, 2008

Item of the Day: John Adam’s Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1794)

Full Title: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778. By John Adams . . . In Three Volumes, Vol. I. A New Edition. London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794.
PREFACE.
THE [...]