On devotion : commencement essay, 1793

Two-page handwritten oration titled "On devotion" composed by graduate Samuel Farrar for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins, "The mind assuming reason for its guide, and the works of nature for its contemplation..."

On freedom : commencement essay, 1793

Four-page handwritten essay titled "On Freedom" composed by graduate Joseph Stowers for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins, "Freedom alone constitutes the happiness of the human race..."

" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man" : commencement essay, 1793

One-page sheet with handwritten essay titled, "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man," composed by graduate Ward Cotton for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins with the quote "'Man is a being composed of an organized body, and a rational soul.'"

" Banish the self debasing principles, and scorn the disingenuity of readers. Humility has depressed many a genius into a hermit" : commencement essay, 1793

Two-page handwritten essay composed for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement by an unattributed author. The title is a quote from William Shenstone's essay "On Allowing Merit in Others." The essay begins, "Notwithstanding Philosophers have ever considered the human mind as a simple being..."

Student notes of Elijah Dunbar, 1792-1793

Three unlined pages with notes written by Harvard undergraduate Elijah Dunbar. The documents consist of two pages of chemistry notes compiled in September 1792 when Dunbar was a junior and an undated, untitled list of theological themes. The chemistry notes include a summary of the discipline and a set of laws regarding the "affinity of composition." The verso of the second page was later annotated: "Borrow- He that discerneth Youth & Beau[ty] Elij. Dunar 2'd 1793. Rec'd David Tappan, Professor of Divinity in the University--Elijah Dunbar, jun." followed by a list of students identified as "Alchemists" in the "Ridiculous Society": Joseph Perkins, Isaac Braman, William Biglow, and Elijah Dunbar. The second document is an untitled list of 27 theological themes beginning "1. Doctrine of the Trinity," and ending "27. Family worship," and may refer to sermon or lecture topics.

Letters from Joseph McKean to William Tudor,

Two letters relaying news from Cambridge regarding student clubs and of mutual friends, and discussing their respective views on women.

Letters from Joseph Lyman to William Tudor,

Two letters regarding Tudor’s research into James Otis.

An address before the alumni of Atkinson Academy, N.H. August 25, 1859.

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The poetical works of Joseph Addison : Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase /

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String quartets, [Vols. I-III] : Revised by Joseph Joachim & Andreas Moser /

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Histoire de Joseph II. empereur d'Allemagne,

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La mission du conventionnel Lakanal dans la Dordogne en l'an II (octobre 1793-août 1794)

"Bibliographie": p. [v]-xxii.

Cartas de Santa Teresa de Jesus ... con notas del ... Fr. Antonio de San Joseph, Religioso Carmelita descalzo ..

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Trabajos de los Apostoles en la fundacion de la Iglesia Cristiana ó Hechos de estos escritos por San Lucas : con notas críticas á varios descuidos ... en la traduccion de la Historia Eclesiástica, escrita por ... Joseph Agustin de Orsi ... /

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Carta consultatoria del doctor D. Joseph Pinilla y Vizcayno, al doctor D. Timoteo O-Scalan : en la que se exponen al juicio de los Teólogos Morales las principales razones y hechos médicos que favorecen y contradicen la Inoculacion de las Viruelas ...

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