A poem, on the rising glory of America; being an exercise delivered at the public commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. : [Six lines from Seneca's Medea]
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A poem, on the rising glory of America; being an exercise delivered at the public commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. : [Six lines from Seneca's Medea]
Author
Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
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Philadelphia: :: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, bookseller, opposite the London-Coffee-House, in Front-Street.,
M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Poetry.
"A poem, on the rising glory of America; being an exercise delivered at the public commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. : [Six lines from Seneca's Medea]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N09743.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025.
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ARGUMENT.
The subject proposed.—The discovery of America by Colum|bus and others.—A philosophical enquiry into the origin of the savages of America.—Their uncultivated state.—The first planters of America.—The cause of their migration from Eu|rope.—The difficulties they encountred from the resentment of the natives and other circumstances.—The French war in North America—The most distinguished heroes who fell in it; Wolf, Braddock, &c.—General Johnson,—his character.—North America why superior to South.—On Agriculture.—On commerce.—On science.—Whitefield,—his character.— The present glory of America.—A prospect of its future glory, in science,—in liberty,—and the gospel.—The conclusion of the whole.
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