Parents and their children meeting at the day of judgment : the substance of a sermon, delivered in Granville, Mass., Lord's-Day, May 20, 1810, at the funeral of Nancy Tinker ... /

Shaw & Shoemaker

Una lección de Dámaso Alonso sobre 'Góngora y el Polifemo'.

Se desarrolla una lección sobre 'Góngora y el Polifemo' impartida por el Catedrático y poeta don Dámaso Alonso, donde se abordan temas como: el gongorismo y cultismo literario, el gongorismo y el conceptismo, las modas literarias en Europa en la época de Góngora y diferenciación histórica entre el gongorismo y el puro conceptismo. Por último, se incluye el comentario a dos estrofas: 'frutas del zurrón de Polifemo' y 'amor de Polifemo a Galatea'.

Journal typographique et bibliographique /

Mode of access: Internet.

Species plantarum exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas ... secundum systema sexuale digestas.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mistakes in religion exposed: an essay on the prophecy of Zacharias.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards the Earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780.

Mode of access: Internet.

Los vagabundos y la justicia de Buenos Aires durante el período tardo colonial (1785-1810) : Construcciones jurídicas y criminalidad

Fil: Casagrande, Agustín Elías. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Los vagabundos y la justicia de Buenos Aires durante el período tardo colonial (1785-1810) : Construcciones jurídicas y criminalidad

Fil: Casagrande, Agustín Elías. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Los vagabundos y la justicia de Buenos Aires durante el período tardo colonial (1785-1810) : Construcciones jurídicas y criminalidad

Fil: Casagrande, Agustín Elías. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Arguments prepared by Daniel Appleton White for meetings of Phi Beta Kappa, 1796-1797

Three handwritten arguments prepared by Phi Beta Kappa member Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861; Harvard AB 1797) for discussion at meetings of the Alpha chapter at Harvard University in 1796 and 1797. The documents consist of a small paper notebook with a response to the prompt, "Whether the deeper studies, such as metaphysics, mathematics & natural philosophy, are entitled to our chief attention?" dated September 27, 1796, and prepared for debate with classmate Isaac Wellington (died 1797); a one-leaf document with a disputation on, "Whether civilized nations have a right to drive uncivilized nations from the lands they occupy?" dated December 8, 1796; and a small paper notebook containing White’s argument to the prompt, "Would a national university be beneficial for America?" that he debated with John Collins Warren (1778-1856; Harvard AB 1797) during the chapter’s May 16, 1797, meeting.

Student lecture notes of Benjamin Peirce, 1797-1798

This collection contains approximately twenty-three handwritten lecture summaries on six leaves made by Harvard undergraduate Benjamin Peirce between September 1797 and November 22, 1798. The summaries generally provide a few sentences describing the topic covered and primarily pertain to lectures on English grammar delivered by Eliphalet Pearson, the Hollis Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. There are also summaries for single lectures by David Tappan, the Hollis Professor Divinity; Samuel Webber, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John Snelling Popkin, the Greek Tutor from 1795 to 1798, and later the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. There is also an undated summary of a lecture by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic.

Letter from Lemuel Shaw to Susanna Shaw, January 3, 1797

This single page handwritten letter was sent from Lemuel Shaw to his mother, Susanna, during his freshman year at Harvard. In the letter, he requested that his mother wash and return his dirty laundry and send him clothes, including a pair of overalls, some neck-handkerchiefs, and a new hat. Shaw also asked for money to be sent to pay off his debt of $21.25 to Mr. Richard Hunnewell for board and rent, $18.93 for the previous quarter’s bill, and $1.15 for Mr. Timothy Alden, the College Butler.

Letters from Timothy Pickering to his brother and father, 1797-1798

These two handwritten letters by Timothy Pickering were written on February 14, 1797 and June 14, 1798 to his brother John Pickering and his father Timothy Pickering, respectively. The letter to his brother, John, discusses mutual friends, classmate Thomas Lee, and John’s recent attendance at a sermon by Dr. Joseph Priestley. The letter from Timothy to his father includes a discussion of Timothy’s expenses and the amount of money needed to pay his debts, a request for new shoes for commencement, the news of Timothy’s invitation to join honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and a few comments on his forensics course at Harvard.