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Epes Sargent's biography, ''[[Life and Public Services of Henry Clay|The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay]]'' (1852), mentions three books which were loaned or recommended to a young [[Henry Clay]], when he worked as a copyist for Wythe in Virginia's High Court of Chancery, between 1793 and 1796: | Epes Sargent's biography, ''[[Life and Public Services of Henry Clay|The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay]]'' (1852), mentions three books which were loaned or recommended to a young [[Henry Clay]], when he worked as a copyist for Wythe in Virginia's High Court of Chancery, between 1793 and 1796: |
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by James Harris
Harris' Hermes | |
Title page from Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | James Harris |
Published | London: Printed for John Nourse and Paul Vaillant |
Date | 1771 |
Edition | Third edition, revised and corrected |
Language | English, Latin |
Pages | xix, 442, [27] pages, [1] |
Desc. | 8vo (22 cm.) |
Location | Shelf H-1 |
James Harris (1709 – 1780) was an English politician and grammarian.
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Epes Sargent's biography, The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay (1852), mentions three books which were loaned or recommended to a young Henry Clay, when he worked as a copyist for Wythe in Virginia's High Court of Chancery, between 1793 and 1796:
Barbara Dean's 1975 bibliography for Colonial Williamsburg lists a "Homer" by Harris as a book belonging to Wythe, citing Clarkin's Serene Patriot (1970). Clarkin, however, had apparently consulted Carl Schurz' work, a Life of Henry Clay (1887), and Schurz had misread "Hermes" as "Homer" in Sargent's earlier biography.[2]
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
References
External links
- Read this book in Google Books.