Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Manuscript fair copy, corrected, in Rutherforth's hand, of four controversial letters. The third contains commentary on Blackburne's contribution to the "controversy regarding an intermediate state". The letters are preceded by a table of contents, and all are signed with the initials "T.R."
Alternative Title:
Observations on [Blackburne's] historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
and Observations on Blackburns historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
Description:
Binding: contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards. and Thomas Rutherforth was a Church of England clergyman and moral philosopher who taught at Cambridge and was appointed to the Regius Chair of Divinity there in 1756. His major publications were A System of Natural Philosophy (1748) and Institutes of Natural Law (1754, 1756).
Subject (Name):
Blackburne, Francis,--1705-1787, Church of England.--Thirty-nine Articles--Controversial literature, Rutherforth, T.--(Thomas),--1712-1771, and University of Cambridge--Administration
Subject (Topic):
Intermediate state and Learning and scholarship--Great Britain
The paintings are on mica, and under each is a manuscript caption.
Description:
All versos blank., Manuscript title, occupying two leaves, "written by T. Vardapillay, writing master in the two English schools established by the American missionaries in Madura City"., and The name "Daniel Poor" is in a different hand, presumably that of the donor himself.
Subject (Name):
Poor, Daniel, Twining, William, Rev., and Vardapillay, T