"Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse seros" (manuscript essay), 1798 December 6
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31/12/1969
31/12/1969
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| Resumo |
Three-page handwritten essay in English by Buckminster on the role of the arts in humanity's progress. The essay is titled with a quote from Ovid that can be translated, "A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness." The essay begins, "To a philosophic mind it is highly interesting to mark the progress of refinement." |
| Identificador |
HUC 8799.386.10 Box 1, Folder 2 http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/51126475?width=150&height=150&usethumb=y http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:16084460 http://colonialnorthamerican.library.harvard.edu/prod/cna/hua12011c00002 |
| Publicador |
Harvard University Archives |
| Relação |
Harvard University Archives: Student essays of Joseph Stevens Buckminster, 1798-1799 |
| Direitos |
The student essays are open for research. |
