A series of letters on education. : Ascribed to J. Witherspoon, D.D. President of Princeton-College, N.J..
Witherspoon, John,1723-1794.
Cotton, Nathaniel,1705-1788.
Buel, John,1768?-1800,printer.
Davis, Cornelius,1758?-1831,bookseller.
Cortelyou, Ruth J.,former owner.StEdNL
New-York: : Printed by J. Buel, for C. Davis.,
1797..
"Education intended to fortify the mind, against criminal excess in all enjoyments, exhibited, in the vision of pleasure. By Dr. [Nathaniel] Cotton."--p. 99-108; in verse.
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John Witherspoon was the only ordained Minister (and one of only two native-born Scots) to sign the Declaration of Independence. He became President of the College of New Jersey (i.e. Princeton University) and set the institution on a course where it was very quickly able to compete with Yale and Harvard as one of the premier colleges in the United States.
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Provenance of Ruth J. Cortelyou whose partial signature is on the title page and full signature on page 108.
Circa 1830-1840 red leather-backed decorated blue/grey cloth-covered boards, the leather lightly tooled in gilt.
Education
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