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The moral instructor and guide to virtue and happiness : In five parts ... with an appendix containing a constitution and form of subscription for the institution of free public libraries, &c. / By Jesse Torrey, Jun., Physician.

By: Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834
Material type: TextTextManufacturer: Ballston Spa, [N.Y.] : Printed for the author by U.F. Doubleday, 1819Description: 228 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Ethics | Moral education -- HistoryLocal Note: Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary copy: Stamped on title page: 'Brooklyn Apprentices' Library' and 'Youths Free Library, Brooklyn Institut[e]' and hand numbered 946 and 4.22.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
pt. I. Essays on the general diffusion of knowledge and moral improvement -- pt. II. Lives and moral precepts of the most eminent ancient philosophers of China, Greece, and Rome -- pt. III. A system of morality, founded on the law of nature -- pt. IV. Summary of moral principles, from the works of eminent German and English philosophers -- pt. V. Miscellaneous articles concerning erroneous national, moral, and political customs; on the prospect of meliorating the condition of the human race by universal education, &c.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Rare Books Collection Special Collections (by appointment only) BJ21 .T6 1819 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 0182903389266

"Designed to be a welcome guest in domestic circles, and seminaries of education" -- Title page.

pt. I. Essays on the general diffusion of knowledge and moral improvement -- pt. II. Lives and moral precepts of the most eminent ancient philosophers of China, Greece, and Rome -- pt. III. A system of morality, founded on the law of nature -- pt. IV. Summary of moral principles, from the works of eminent German and English philosophers -- pt. V. Miscellaneous articles concerning erroneous national, moral, and political customs; on the prospect of meliorating the condition of the human race by universal education, &c.

Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary copy: Stamped on title page: 'Brooklyn Apprentices' Library' and 'Youths Free Library, Brooklyn Institut[e]' and hand numbered 946 and 4.22.

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