Item #26382 An Address, delivered to the candidates for the baccalaureate in Union College, at the anniversary commencement, 30 July, 1806. Eliphalet Nott.
riot not at the banquets of Bacchus!

An Address, delivered to the candidates for the baccalaureate in Union College, at the anniversary commencement, 30 July, 1806

Cambridge: W. Hilliard, 1806. Good. Item #26382

Cambridge: W. Hilliard, 1806. First Edition. Octavo; disbound; 16pp. ([A]4 B4, collated and complete). Title page (serving as upper cover) and following leaf separated but present, textblock rather foxed, trimmed contemporary gift inscription "to Mary Cook" along top margin of title page, else a Good, sound copy of an uncommon pamphlet.

Oration delivered by Union College's fourth president, exhorting the students to "not riot at the banquets of Bacchus; but you may participate in temperance at the board of convivial mirth, and exhilirated [sic] rise from it to give God thanks. You may not steal at midnight to the infamous pleasure of the brothel; but you may cherish at your homes the refined, the hallowed pleasures of connubial friendship" (p. 12).

SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11047.

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