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
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TextManufacturer: 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: | Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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"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.