Oration on the Comparativ [sic] Elements and Dutys [sic] of Grecian and American Eloquence. Deliverd [sic] before the Erodelphian Society of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, on the 23d of September, 1834: being Their Ninth Anniversary Celebration. With Notes by ...

Singerman ID: supp1187

Year: 1834

Entry: Grimké, Thomas. Oration on the Comparativ [sic] Elements and Dutys [sic] of Grecian and American Eloquence. Deliverd [sic] before the Erodelphian Society of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, on the 23d of September, 1834: being Their Ninth Anniversary Celebration. With Notes by ... Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1834. 56, [2] p.

Author/Editor: Thomas Smith Grimké

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Holdings: In most academic libraries

Title: Oration on the Comparativ [sic] Elements and Dutys [sic] of Grecian and American Eloquence. Deliverd [sic] before the Erodelphian Society of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, on the 23d of September, 1834: being Their Ninth Anniversary Celebration. With Notes by ...

Printer/Publisher: Truman and Smith

Language: English

Notes: "And what a striking proof of the divinity of the Scriptures, is aforded [sic] by the fact, that such a people as the Jews, such a land as Canaan, so inferior in natural advantages to the Greeks and their country, should hav [sic] produced, in the Old Testament, a body of political and theological institutes, of historical, poetical, and moral literature, far beyond all that had been accomplished by Greece. Her literature is perfectly explicable by a reference to her history. Hebrew literature, on the contrary, if regarded as human, is an utterly inexplicable phenomenon, in the history of the human race" (p. 18 in both editions; see below). In addition to the 56 p. edition printed by James and Gazlay, another edition with 60 p. was printed by N. S. Johnson. Text also in Oxford Addresses ... (Hanover, Ind.: Joseph G. Monfort, 1835), pp. 227-58. Rinderknecht 24741.