Commonplace book of Hector Orr, 1789-1804

Hector Orr began recording entries in this commonplace book during his first year as a student at Harvard and continued writing in the volume sporadically until 1804. The entries written while he was a student, from 1789 to 1792, include themes written on the following topics: Time, Discontent, Patriotism, Virtue, Conscience, Patience, Avarice, Compassion, Mortality, Self-knowledge, Benevolence, Morning, Anger, Profanity, Bribery, Autumn and Winter, Hermitage, Conscience and Anticipation. He also wrote detailed entries about the forensic disputations in which he and his classmates participated, explaining both the affirmative and negative positions. One of these disputations involved discussion of the Stamp Act, which was then quite recent history. Orr's entries about the disputations list the names of students involved and specify their position in the argument.

Account book of David Townsend, 1774-1791

Account book kept by Dr. David Townsend (1753-1829) that records patients treated, illnesses, and fees charged in Boston, Massachusetts, and neighboring towns from 1774 to 1791. His patients included a number of soldiers and sailors, as well as figures like the French-American writer John Hector St. John (1735-1813). Townsend's treatments typically consisted of delivering cathartics or emetics. For the family of Samuel Appleton, Townsend administered smallpox inoculation in 1776, charging him 4 pounds, 4 shillings. Townsend sometimes recorded the occupation or race of the patient. For example, he attended the delivery of a child of Sappho Henshaw, "black girl," in 1786; in 1787 he attended to an unnamed "black man at [who lived at the] corner of Board Alley" in the North End of Boston. Other patients included John Hancock (1736-1793) and members of Hancock's household, as well as Federalist publisher John Fenno (1751-1798).

The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world, and its traditions referred to the events in Paradise : proving the temptation and fall of man by the instrumentality of a serpent tempter /

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Old family letters: copied from the originals for Alexander Biddle.

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Plutarch's Lives : translated from the Greek with notes, critical and historical and a life of Plutarch /

Includes index.

An Answer to the Observations on the Papers relative to the rupture with Spain.

Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴ F².

The works of William Hogarth : with descriptions and explanations /

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Historical gleanings: a series of sketches: Wiklif. Laud. Wilkes. Horne Tooke.

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Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures (now first collected) : to which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall : with a preliminary essay, notes, facsimiles, &c. : in three volumes.

Edited by John Mason Good (cf. NUC pre-1956).

The Scots Worthies /

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Monetary panics and their remedy ; with special reference to the panic of 11th May 1866 /

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Carta a Don Antonio Hernandez medico titula de la villa de Beniganim, sobre el sistema de Guillermo Cullen en órden á la causa próxima de la calentura, y su impugnacion por el Dr. Juan Brown, con una censura del sistema Browniano /

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Discurso sobre la incertidumbre y perjuicios del sistema del doctor Juan Brown, con una breve respuesta a las reflexiones de D. Juan Bautista Llopis /

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Médecine portative, ou Guide de santé, à l'usage de tout le monde /

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Ioannis Brunonis M. D., De medicina praelectoris ... Elementa medicinae.

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