Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: January 1, 1769-March 13, 1776
Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Letters & Papers of Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College, 1778-1795
Author: Ezra StilesThe Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: March 14, 1776-December 31, 1781
Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Jan. 1, 1769l-Mar. 13, 1776
Author: Ezra StilesThe Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ...
Author: Ezra StilesThe Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Jan. 1, 1782-May 6, 1795
Author: Ezra StilesThe Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: January 1, 1782-May 6, 1795
Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860
Author: Henry Walcott FarnamPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770546
Category : Social legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A social history of the class system in the United States from the colonial period through the constitutional era that primarily concerns itself with the issue of slavery. Other legislative areas affected by the social structure of the times covered include laws of debt, land tenure, fair trade, and food supply...Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 809.
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley - all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as thedefinitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776
Author: Philip RanletPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076187142X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.