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.

" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.

Draft of the Rules, Directions, and Statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College, [ca. 1804]

This original draft was probably written by Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826) as a member of the committee charged with the task of establishing the rules, directions, and statutes for the Boylston Professorship by the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. This draft is heavily edited and contains many cross outs through the text.

The end of religious controversy in a freindly correspondence between a religious society of Protestants and a Roman Catholis divine, to which is added the author's postscript.

Includes bibliographical references.

Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica, in the cure of lues venerea, illustrated with cases /

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Histoire de la révolution de Pologne en 1794 /

Contiene en p. 195-291:

Strictures on the poet laureate's Book of the Church /

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Les Polonais en Égypte, 1789-1801.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Essays on Gothic architecture,

Compiled by J. Taylor.

Errata of the Protestant Bible : or, The truth of the English translations examined : in a treatise, showing some of the errors that are to be found in the English translations of the Sacred Scriptures, used by Protestants, against such points of religious doctrine as are the subject of controversy between them and the members of the Catholic Church : in which also, from their mistranslating the twenty-third verse of the fourteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, the consecration of Dr. Matthew Parker, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, is occasionally considered /

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Authentic documents relative to the miraculous cure of Winefrid White of Wolverhampton, at St.Winefrid's well, alias Holywell, in Flintshire, on the 28 th of June 1805.

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Supplementary memoirs of English Catholics, addressed to Charles Butler, esq., author of the Historical memoirs of the English Catholics.

"The ... writer considers the work which he is about to review, though it professes to be the historical memoirs of the English Catholics from the reformation to the present time, as being, in reality, a covert apology for the measures in which their author, with a few of his friends, has been engaged, during the thirty years of his direction of Catholic affairs in this country."--Prefatory address.

An historical and critical account of Winchester Cathedral.

Mode of access: Internet.