The moral instructor, and guide to virtue and happiness : in five parts : with an appendix, containing a constitution and form of subscription for the institution of free public libraries, &c. : designed to be a welcome guest in domestic circles, and seminars of education / by Jesse Torrey, Jun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torrey, Jesse, fl. 1787-1834.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Moral education--History.

Moral education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p., [1] leaf of plates ) port. ;

Other Title:

Moral instructor, and guide to virtue and happiness

Place of Publication:

Ballston Spa [N.Y.] : Printed for the author by U.F. Doubleday, 1819.

Contents:

pt. 1. Essays on the general diffusion of knowledge and moral improvement

pt. 2. Lives and moral precepts of the most eminent ancient philosophers of China, Greece, and Rome

pt. 3. A system of morality, founded on the law of nature

pt. 4. Summary of moral principles, from the works of eminent German and English philosophers

pt. 5. Miscellaneous articles, concerning erroneous national moral and political customs, on the prospect of meliorating the condition of the human race, by universal education, etc.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 96288.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG00-B1800

OCLC:

85794814