Papers of William Merchant Richardson, 1797-1806

The collection contains a four-page handwritten poem titled "Invention" composed by graduate William Richardson for the 1797 Harvard College Commencement, and an 1806 letter of introduction written by Richardson. The rhyming poem begins, “Long had creations anthem peal been rung…” and contains classical references, and mentions scientists and philosophers including Voltaire, Franklin and Newton. The poem is accompanied by a one-page handwritten letter of introduction for lawyer Benjamin Ames (Harvard AB 1803) written by William M. Richardson to Reverend William Jenks (Harvard AB 1797). The letter is dated November 10, 1806.

Life of William M. Richardson, LL. D., late chief justice of the Superior court in New Hampshire ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The New-Hampshire town officer /

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William K. Richardson : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Claims, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, second session, on House joint resolution 498, for the relief of William K. Richardson. April 22, 1936.

William A. Ekwall, chairman of subcommittee.

Kognitiva system i namngivningen av finländska handelsfartyg 1838-1938

This dissertation is an onomastic study of Finland s stock of ship names (nautonomasticon) recorded over the period 1838 1938. The primary material investigated consists of 2 066 examples of ship names from the fleets of coastal towns, distributed over five sample years. The material is supplemented with two bodies of comparative data; one that consists of 2 535 examples of boat names from the archipelago area at the corresponding time, and another that comprises 482 examples of eighteenth century Finnish ship names. This study clarifies the categories of names that appear the frequency of the names, formation, morphology, linguistic origin, functions, and semantic qualities. By comparing the material with boat names from previous centuries, and from other countries, the characteristics of Finnish vessel names are further highlighted. Additional clarification is brought to the chronological, regional, and social variations, and to the emergence of various forms of systematic naming. This dissertation builds on older research from other countries, and uses traditional onomastic methods alongside a more modern methodology. The approach is interdisciplinary, meaning that the names are explored using facts not only from nautical history, but also from a range of other historical disciplines such as economics, culture, art, and literature. In addition, the approach is socio-onomastic, i.e. that the variations in names are studied in a societal context. Using a synchronised perspective, cognitive linguistic theories have provided the tools for this exploration into the metaphorical and the prototypical meaning of the names, and the semantic domains that the names create. The quantitative analysis has revealed the overall picture of Finnish boat names. Personal names, names from mythology, and place names, emerge as significant categories, alongside nonproprial names in Swedish and Finnish. The interdisciplinary perspective has made it possible to explain certain trends in the stock of boat names, for example, the predisposition towards names from classical mythology, the breakthrough of names taken from the national epos Kalevala, names in the Finnish language from around the middle of the nineteenth century, and the continuing rise of place names during the latter part of the period 1838 1938. The socio-onomastic perspective has also identified clear differences between those ship names used in towns, and those ship names used in the archipelago, and it has clarified how naming conventions tend to spread from town centres to peripheral areas. The cognitive linguistic methods have revealed that the greater part of the vessel names can be interpreted as metaphors, in particular personifications, and that many names are related in their content and also form semantic networks and cognitive systems. The results indicate that there is a mental nautonomasticon that consists of a standard set of traditional ship names, but they also reveal the existence of conscious or unconscious cognitive systems (rules and conventions) that guide the naming of boats.

Sermons and other selections from the writing of William C. Hanscom : with a memoir by J. G. Adams.

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Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of England : from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II, with a continuation to the year 1832 : with questions for examination at the end of each section, besides a variety of valuable information, added throughout the work, consisting of tables of contemporary sovereigns ...

Spine title: Pinnock's Goldsmith's England.

Selections from the Epistles, &c. of William Bennit : an early minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, who, after suffering long and patiently ... : a memoir of his religious experience and character.

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A memoir of the Right Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, M.P., O.M., LL. D., D.C.L., LITT. D., member of the French Institute and of the British Academy,

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History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe,

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Far out: rovings retold.

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Charles George Gordon,

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An eulogy on the Hon. Wm. H. Woodward, late a member of the corporation of Dartmouth University, who died Aug. 9, 1818 : pronounced at the request of the trustees on Commencement Day, at Hanover, N.H., Aug. 26, 1818 ...

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Sir Charles Napier,

First published 1890; reprinted.