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Candid remarks on Dr. Witherspoon's Address to the inhabitants of Jamaica, and the other West-India Islands, &c. In a letter to those gentlemen. [Three lines from Virgil]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am1772 Can AR72 C46
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [2],59,[3]p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed [by William Goddard], in the year MDCCLXXII. [1772]
- Notes:
- In reply to John Witherspoon's admonition against a British education in favor of American colleges, specifically Princeton.
- Caption title: To the inhabitants of Jamaica, and the other West-India Islands.
- "This is not the same text as Vardill's [i.e., John Vardill, or Poplicola's] newspaper attack, but it is ascribed to him in a contemporary hand in the NYSL copy."--Shipton & Mooney.
- Name of printer supplied by Evans.
- With an errata note. In some copies, the errata page is inserted following the title page, in others at the end of the text.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 12346; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2754
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