Discourses on public occasions in America
By: by William Smith.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania -- History.; Learned institutions and societies -- New York (State) -- New York.; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Notes: First edition, 1759, has title : Discourses on several public occasions during the war in America. Preached chiefly with a view to the explaining the importance of the Protestant cause, in the British colonies; and the advancement of religion, patriotism and military virtue.  Among which are a discourse on adversity ; and also a discourse, On planting the sciences, and the propagation of Christianity, in the untutored parts of the earth.  With an appendix ...
Contains two additional discourses not found in 1st edition.
Appendix.--I. no. 1. A letter concerning the office and duty of Protestant ministers, especially in times of public danger and calamity ; written to a clergyman on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, on General Braddock's defeat.--no. 2. An earnest address to the colonies, at the opening of the campaign, 1758. --II, no. 1. A general idea of the College of Mirania ; first published in the year, 1753, as a plan for a college in New York.--no. 2. Account of the College and academy of Philadelphia.--no. 3. A charge delivered to the graduates at the first anniversary commencement in the College of Philadelphia.--III. A philosophical meditation, and religious address to the Supreme Being.