Discourses on public occasions in America.
By: By William Smith.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: American culture series -- 471.25.
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar [etc.]
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania -- History; Learned institutions and societies -- New York (State) -- New York; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Sermons
Genres: Sermons.
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.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 471.25)
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: no. 2. An earnest address to the colonies, at the opening of the campaign, 1758.; title: 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.; title: no. 2. Account of the College and academy of Philadelphia.; title: no. 3. A charge delivered to the graduates at the first anniversary commencement in the College of Philadelphia.; title: III. A philosophical meditation, and religious address to the Supreme Being.