Title: Essays, literary, moral & philosophical /
Authors: Rush, Benjamin,; Bradford, Samuel F.; Bradford, Thomas,; Newsum, William,; Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford
Date: 1798
Publisher: Printed by Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford, no. 8, South Front Street.,
Physical description: [8], 378 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: A Plan for establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania, and for conducting Education agreeable to a Republican form of Government. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of Pennsylvania, in the year 1786 -- On the mode of Education proper in a Republic -- Observations upon the study of the Latin and Greek languages, as a branch of liberal Education, with hints of a plan of liberal Instruction, without them, accommodated to the present state of society, manners and government in the United States -- Thoughts upon the amusements and punishments, which are proper for Schools -- Thoughts upon Female Education, accommodated to the present state of society, manners, and government, in the United States of America -- A defense of the Bible as a School Book -- An address to the Ministers of the Gospel of every denomination in the United States upon subjects interesting to morals -- An inquiry into the consistency of Oaths with Christianity --^ An enquiry into to Effects of Public Punishments upon Criminals, and upon Society -- An enquiry into the consistency of the Punishment of Murder by Death, with Reason and Revelation -- A plan of a Peace Office for the United States -- Information to Europeans who are disposed to migrate to the United States of America -- An Account of the Progress of Population, Agriculture, Manners, and Government, in Pennsylvania, in a letter to a friend in England -- An Account of the manners, of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania -- Thoughts on common sense -- An Account of the Vices peculiar to the Indians of North America -- Observations upon the influence of the Habitual use of Tobacco upon Health, Morals, and Property -- An Account of the Sugar Maple Tree of the United States -- An account of the life and death of Edward Drinker, who died on the 17 of November, 1782, in the 103 year of his age --^ Remarkable circumstances in the constitution and life of Ann Woods, an old woman of 96 years of age -- Biographical Anecdotes of Benjamin Lay -- Biographical Anecdotes of Anthony Benezet -- Paradise of Negro Slaves -- a dream -- Eulogium upon Dr. William Cullen -- Eulogium upon David Rittenhouse.
Notes: "Most of the ... essays were published in the Museum, and Columbian magazine ... soon after the end of the Revolutionary War in the United States. A few of them made their first appearance in pamphlets." - Pref. 2 copies
Subject headings (LCSH): American essays.