Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The true means of establishing public happiness : a sermon, delivered on the 7th of July, 1795, before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati, and published at their request.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.817
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcv118rq35p
Publisher
New Haven : Printed by T. & S. Green, and sold by I. Beers, at his book-store, [1795]
Language
English
Date Created
1795
Extent
[2], 40 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 Nelson copy: inscribed on title page 'Matt[hew] Crane, Dec 24th 1795.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W29596
Evans 28610
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Preface signed: 7th July 1795, dedication signed: Timothy Dwight.
Signatures: pi1 [A]⁴ B-E⁴.
Princeton copy 3 Rcpxr copy: No. 1 of a volume of pamphlets.
Princeton copy 2 Nelson copy: No. 4 in a volume of pamphlets.
Princeton copy 2 Nelson copy: Lacking half-title page.

Discovery Information

Subject
Christianity and politics—Sermons—Early works to 1800
Happiness—Religious aspects—Sermons
Sermons, American—Early works to 1800
Fourth of July orations
Sermons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
43

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/816ba65d-2733-465f-957f-d7185f8a5bd5/manifest