SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY CONTRASTED. AN ORATION PRONOUNCED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY, IN MIDDLEBOROUGH ON WEDNESDAY, THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1797
Providence, Rhode Island: Carter & Wilkinson, 1797. Pamphlet. 24pp. Light foxing to first & last pages. With the words to two Odes sung on the Anniversary of the Society, 1797. Evans 31892. Good only. Item #80580
"...The solitary man has entire fruition of natural liberty. He is arbiter of his own actions. He knows no other law than that which the hand of nature has inscribed on the pages of his own mind..." (p. 5)
Burges served as member of the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1811 and a prominent member of the Federalist Party.[1] He was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in May 1815,and that same year was named as professor of oratory and belles letters at Brown University delivering lectures in rhetoric and oratory. He was elected to the US Congress in 1825 as a Federalist and served for ten years..."
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