Entries Tagged as '1800's'

March 19, 2008

Item of the Day: Two Discourses on the Commencement of the New Year and the Completion of the Eighteenth Century (1801)

Full Title: Two Discourses, I. On the Commencement of a New Year; II. On the Completion of The Eighteenth Century; Delivered in New Haven: The former, January 4th, The latter, January 11th, 1801. By James Dana. New Haven : Printed by William W. Morse, 1801.
DISCOURSE II.
ON THE COMPETION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
ECCLESIASTES, I. 4.
One generation [...]

March 14, 2008

Item of the Day: Dr. Trumbull’s Discourse on the Death of General Washington (1800)

Full Title: The Majesty and Mortality of created Gods Illustrated and Improved. A Funeral Discourse, Delivered at North-Haven, December 29, 1799. On the Death of George Washington; who died December 14, 1799. By Benjamin Trumbull. New Haven: Printed by Read & Morse, 1800.
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The MAJESTY and MORTALITY of created GODS.
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THAT portion of Scripture which shall lead [...]

March 13, 2008

Item of the Day: Timothy Dwight’s Discourse on the Character of George Washington (1800)

Full Title: A Discourse Delivered at New-Haven, Feb. 22, 1800; On the Character of George Washington, Esq. at the Request of the Citizens. By Timothy Dwight . . . New-Haven: Printed by Thomas Green and Son, 1800.
. . . GENERAL WASHINGTON  was great, not be means of that brilliancy of mind, often appropriately termed genius, [...]

March 11, 2008

Item of the Day: Parkinson’s Medical Admonitions (1803)

Full Title:
Medical Admonitions to Families, Respecting the Preservation of Health, and the Treatment of the Sick.  Also, a Table of Symptoms, Serving to Point out the Degree of Danger, and, to Distinguish one Disease from Another.  With Observations on the Improper Indulgence of Children, &c.  By James Parkinson, M.D.  Hoxton.  First American, from the Fourth [...]

February 25, 2008

Item of the Day: Miscellany, for The Port Folio (9 July 1803)

Found In: The Port folio. Enlarged. By Oliver Oldschool. Vol. III., No. 28. Philadelphia, Saturday, July 9, 1803. [p. 219]
 
MISCELLANY,
FOR THE PORT FOLIO.
 
ADVICE TO THE EDITOR OF THE AURORA.
As you have, for some time, assumed the office, and rather imperiously exercised the functions of perpetual dictator to the good people of Pennsylvania, it may be [...]

February 13, 2008

Item of the Day: General Observations on the Philosophy of Medicine (1809)

Full Title: General Observations on the Philosophy of Medicine; with some Anticipations of its Future State, Arising Out of a Comparison of its Progress with that of the Sciences in General. By Joseph William Gullifer, Esq. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for the Author, 1809.
SECTION FIRST.
WHEN the Statesman sits down to study the [...]

January 30, 2008

Item of the Day: Carr’s Travels (1805)

Full Title: A Northern Summer; or Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804. By John Carr, Author of The Stranger in France, &c. &c. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, by T. Gillet, Salisbury-square, 1805.
CHAP. I.
TIME OF SETTING FORTH—A WESTERN TOWN—HARWICH—THE [...]

January 9, 2008

Item of the Day: Modern Land Steward (1801)

Full Title: The Modern Land Steward; in which the Duties and Functions of Stewardship are considered and explained. With their Several Relations to the Interests of the Landlord, Tenant, and the Public. Including Various and Appropriate Information on Rural and Economical Affairs. By the Author of The New Farmer’s Calendar, &c. &c. London: Printed by [...]

January 4, 2008

Item of the Day: Priestley’s Memoirs (1806)

Full title:  Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795, Written by Himself: With a Continuation, to the Time of his Decease, By His Son, Joseph Priestley: And Observations on his Writings, By Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th District of Pennsylvania: and the Rev. William Christie.  Northumberland: Printed by Jogn Binns.  1806.
Appendix, [...]

December 18, 2007

Item of the Day: Miller’s Retrospect (1803)

Full Title: A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century. Part First; In Two Volumes: Containing A Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that Period. By Samuel Miller, A. M. One of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches in the City of New-York, Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Corresponding [...]