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Letters of Shahcoolen, a Hindu philosopher, residing in Philadelphia; to his friend El Hassan, an inhabitant of Delhi.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 .K8 1802
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802.
- Contents:
- General account of the new philosophy
- Mary Woolstonecraft
- Practical influence of her writings upon the women of the United States
- State of the female sex in the United States
- States of American poetry ; American poets, extracts from their writings
- Scenes of nature in America, calculated to excite poetical enthusiasm; comparison of them with those of Hindustan
- Selections from Hindu poetry; remarks
- Poetry of the Scripures; Solomon's song, resemblance between it and the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva
- Solomon's song considered as a poem; selections from it
- Attachment of the writer to poetry; selections from the Gitagovinda
- Dialogue with a modern philosopher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the New York Commercial Advertiser": p. [7]
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: half-title mutilated.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 2490
- OCLC:
- 3419744
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