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Item #36528 An Eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq. Late President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America. John WARREN.
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An Eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq. Late President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America

An Eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq. Late President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America

Boston: Benjamin Sweetser, 1796. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches). 31, [1], 3, [1]pp. Half title.

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A valuable lens onto the civic humanism and Protestant idealism that animated Bostons Federalist leadership in the wake of independence.

First edition of Dr. John Warren's moving funeral oration for Thomas Russell, a prominent Boston merchant, philanthropist, and civic leader. Delivered before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America, a key instrument of Anglo-American missionary and educational work, Warren's address pays tribute to Russell's public virtues, his religious devotion, and his commitment to charitable institutions in post-Revolutionary New England. John Warren, a distinguished physician and co-founder of Harvard Medical School, speaks here not only as a colleague and fellow patriot, but as a representative of the intellectual and philanthropic elite that shaped the early American republic.

Evans 31522; Sabin 101470.

Item #36528

Price: $100.00

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