Lectures to Young Men on the Cultivation of the Mind, Formation of Character, and the Conduct of Life
Baltimore: Printed and Published by John Murphy, 1840. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth, good with some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, original black paper title label on spine unreadable and half missing, contents very good and clean, light foxing and tanning to outermost pages, ownership signature of a B. F. Elder on flyleaf and title page dated 1840, substantial corner of rear flyleaf torn off. 144 pp. Burnap was a Unitarian minister in Baltimore (d. 1859). He was the first person to write "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for" in his Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman. Good. Item #H40713
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