Murray's English reader ... Vocabulary ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Theology; explained and defended in a series of sermons;

Memoir by his son Sereno E. Dwight.

History of the Church of England, from the earliest periods to the present time, being principally an abridgement of Grant's.

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Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield ...

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Treatises on various theological subjects : published at different times, and now collected into volumes ... From the Philadelphia ed.

II. Essays on the most important subjects in religion. An evening prayer for a family.

Treatises on various theological subjects, published at different times, and now collected into volumes.

v.1. A discourse upon repentance.--A treatise on growth in grace.--Answer to Paine's Age of Reason.--A collection of family prayers.

Military tactics: adapted to the different corps in the United States, according to the latest improvements,

Largely extracted from "... Infantry tactics; or, Rules for the exercises and manoeuvres of the Infantry of the U. S. Army. Washington, 1825", and from "General regulations for the army ... Washington, 1825". cf. Pref.

Sports and amusements for the juvenile philosopher : a present for the young : part first.

No more published?

An appeal to Christians : on the immorality of using or vending distilled liquors, as an article of luxury or diet.

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The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili.

Appendix has special t.-p.: An appendix to the civil and political history of Chili, consisting of a sketch of the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla, with copious translations from that poem, by William Hayley, esq. and the Rev. H. Boyd. New York: Published by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, City-hotel, Broadway, 1808.

Olla Podrida

Mode of access: Internet.

And master of none : an autobiography in the third person.

Mode of access: Internet.

Centennial, 1836-1936.

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The state of history and the empire of metaphysics [Review]

One of the curious things about this challenging book is that its ostensible subject— the Saxon medical and political scientist Hermann Conring (1606–1681)— is not mentioned in the title. Constantin Fasolt argues that we cannot know what Conring really thought or meant in his writings, which means that his topic cannot be Conring as such and must instead be that which occludes our knowledge of him, the titular limits of history. Given that we do in fact learn a good deal about Conring from Fasolt’s book, we can only hope that the decapitation of its subject will be rectified in a subsequent edition, or perhaps by the restorative work of librarians putting together subject headings. And yet Fasolt’s decision is understandable, for Conring is indeed a stalking-horse for a much bigger quarry: historiography and the historical consciousness. By “history” Fasolt understands a way of imposing intelligibility on the world, which is founded on the twin assumptions that the past is gone and unchangeable, and that the meaning of texts can be determined by placing them in their historical contexts (ix). In challenging this mode of intelligibility, Fasolt is not attempting to improve professiona history—it’s already as good as it can be—but to displace it. He regards his work as a declaration of “independence from historical consciousness” (32). At the same time, Fasolt insists that he is not simply jumping from historiography to philosophy, or attempting to preempt history with ontology (37-39). That has been tried by Nietzsche and Heidegger, who have been tainted by Nazism (Fasolt thinks unfairly). It has also been attempted by modern philosophers from Gadamer to Foucault and Charles Taylor who, in failing to address the “violence” that its mode of intelligibility does to the world, have not succeeded in outflanking history. Perhaps, Fasolt wonders, it is only the personal experience of those who have been subject to this violence—the experience of those who have been subject to historical examination—that can break the spell of history. Fasolt’s disclaimer notwithstanding, in the course of these remarks I shall argue that he is indeed jumping from history to philosophy, or attempting to outflank history by subjecting it to a particular metaphysical understanding. I shall do so in part by sketching the recent intellectual history of this move—a historical examination that I hope inflicts as little violence as possible on Fasolt’s argument.

MEMORIA DESCRIPTIVA DEL MAPA GEOFISICO PRELIMINAR DE COSTA RICA

Estudio de la geología del país, y sus aspectos estructurales con información gravimétrica y magnetométrica existente, incluyendo datos de circulación restringida, facitada por instituciones del estado. Con el fin de realizar una interpretación geológica, tectónica local y regional,  la creción de un mapa geofísico del país.