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A slight view of the world. Taken July 4th, 1807. : Tune "Black Sloven."
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 12730. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 12730.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fourth of July--Songs and music.
- Fourth of July.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Songs and music.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Broadsides.
- National songs.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 45 x 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Bennington, Vt.] : [Printed by Benjamin Smead], [1807]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- A slight view of the world (first line: Attention my friends, and I'll sing you a song)
- Liberty universal. Tune-Liberty tree (first line: The clarion of Liberty sounds thro' the world)
- A review of past scenes. Tune Yankee Doodle (first lines: When Britain dar'd in former times conspire our desolation)
- Independence. July 4, 1807. Tune, General muster (first line: Come freemen all in chorus join)
- The triumph of principle. A new song (first line: Rejoice Republicans, rejoice)
- Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. By a citizen of the United States (first line: What shouts in the empire of liberty rise).
- Notes:
- Six songs composed by Anthony Haswell for the Fourth of July celebration at Bennington, Vt., in 1807. Cf. the July 6, 1807, issue of the Epitome of the world, Bennington, Vt. Reprinted by Benjamin Smead in the July 13th and 20th issues of that newspaper.
- Text in three columns; printed area measures 39.6 x 22.3 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 12730).
- Contains:
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816. Liberty universal.
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816. Review of past scenes.
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816. Independence. July 4, 1807.
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816. Triumph of principle.
- Haswell, Anthony, 1756-1816. Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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