AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL, SENIOR SOPHISTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DELIVERED NOVEMBER 25, IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL; An Oration on the Death of Mr. John Russell, Senior Sophister at Harvard University, Delivered November 25, in the College Chapel

Boyd, William

Editore: John W. Folsom, Boston, 1795

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Sewn as issued. Very clean, except a bit of smudging to title page. 18pp. With a list of senior sophisters (upperclassmen). Evans 28330 The language is a trifle flamboyant, as befits a sophister. Bujt as the tone is perhaps inflated and full of itself, we cannot really see Mr. Russells personality clearly, so we actually whether the death of this Harvard upper classman was the first death of anyone known to William Boyd, who, according to the list of Senior Sophisters at Harvard which appears on pp. 5-6. was himself a Senior Sophister. Evans 28330. Upperclassmen were called sophisters ("users of sophisms).

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• Titolo: AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL, SENIOR SOPHISTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DELIVERED NOVEMBER 25, IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL; An Oration on the Death of Mr. John Russell, Senior Sophister at Harvard University, Delivered November 25, in the College Chapel
• Editore: John W. Folsom, Boston
• Data di pubblicazione: 1795
• Rilegatura: Pamphlet
• Condizione: Very Good Plus
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