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Title

Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons / by Theodore Parker, minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Church in Boston ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III].

Author

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

Publication

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLXI. [1861]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ticknor and Fields, publisher.

Description

3 v.; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Unitarianism
• Sermons, American
• Mexican War, 1846-1848
• United States > Politics and government > 1845-1849
• Slavery > United States

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Theodore Parker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page in all volumes.
• Vol. 1: viii, 420 p.; v. 2: iv, 398 p.; v. 3: iv, 410 p.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• Vol. 1. [ch.] 1. The relation of Jesus to his age and the ages : a sermon preached at the Thursday lecture, in Boston, December 26, 1844 -- 2. The true idea of a Christian church : a discourse at the installation of Theodore Parker as minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Church in Boston, on Sunday, January 4, 1846 -- 3. A sermon of war : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, June 7, 1846 -- 4. A speech delivered at the anti-war meeting in Fanueil [sic] Hall, February 4, 1847 -- 5. A sermon on the Mexican War : Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, June 25, 1848 -- 6. A sermon of the perishing classes in Boston : preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, August 30, 1846 -- 7. A sermon of merchants : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, November 22, 1846 -- 8. A sermon of the dangerous classes in society : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, January 31, 1847 -- 9. A sermon of poverty : Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, January 14, 1849 -- 10. A sermon of the moral condition of Boston : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, February 11, 1849.
• Vol. 2. [ch.] 1. A sermon of the spiritual condition of Boston : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, February 18, 1849 -- 2. Some thoughts on the most Christian use of the Sunday : a sermon preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, January 30, 1848 -- 3. A sermon of immortal life : preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, September 20, 1846 -- 4. The public education of the people : an address delivered before the Onondaga Teachers' Institute at Syracuse, New York, October 4, 1849 -- 5. The political destination of America, and signs of the times : an address delivered before several literary societies in 1848 -- 6. A discourse occasioned by the death of John Quincy Adams : delivered at the Melodeon, on Sunday, March 5, 1848 -- 7. A speech at a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, to celebrate the abolition of slavery by the French Republic, April 6, 1848 -- 8. A speech at Faneuil Hall, before the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, May 31, 1848 -- 9. Some thoughts on the Free Soil Party, and the election of General Taylor, December, 1848.
• Vol. 3. [ch.] 1. A speech at a meeting of the citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall, March 25, 1850, to consider the speech of Mr. Webster -- 2. A speech at the New-England Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston, May 29, 1850 -- 3. A discourse occasioned by the death of the late President Taylor : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, July 14, 1850 -- 4. The function and place of conscience, in relation to the laws of men, a sermon for the times : preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 22, 1850 -- 5. The state of the nation, considered in a sermon for Thanksgiving Day : preached at the Melodeon, November 28, 1850 -- 6. The chief sins of the people : A sermon delivered at the Melodeon, on Fast Day, April 10, 1851 -- 7. The three chief safeguards of society, considered in a sermon at the Melodeon, on Sunday, July 6, 1851 -- 8. The position and duties of the American scholar : an address de;overed at Waterville, August 8, 1849.

Call Number

Sc Rare 208-P (Parker, T. Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons)

OCLC

9797703

Author

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

Title

Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons / by Theodore Parker, minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Church in Boston ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III].

Imprint

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLXI. [1861]

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 208-P (accession nos. B593849-B593851) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Ticknor and Fields, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 208-P (Parker, T. Speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons)