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The American Mechanic and Working Man

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1847 essays urging American mechanics to find dignity in honest labor, home pleasures, education, music, and temperance; warns against tavern vice and advocates self-improvement.

Thoughts on Family Worship

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A Presbyterian defense and guide to daily family worship—its warrant, history, and benefits for parents, children, households, church, and commonwealth. Includes practical directions for domestic devotions.

Life of Hegel

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Reviews of Bingham’s history of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands and Rosenkranz’s Life of Hegel, outlining Hegel’s upbringing, studies, travels, and philosophical development.

Teaching a Science: The Teacher an Artist

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Reviews religious instruction for enslaved Black people and critiques public schooling. Argues for teachers’ independence and the necessity of religion in education.

Turrettin’s Institutes

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Review of Turrettin’s Institutes and Francis Turrettini’s life, emphasizing his Reformed theology, scholarly influence, and opposition to Popery, Socinianism, and Arminianism.

Beecher and Wilson on Baptism

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Critical review of Beecher and Wilson on the baptism controversy—mode (immersion vs. sprinkling), biblical exegesis and patristic evidence, with Dr. Carson’s rejoinders.

Hymn to Christ

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1849 Presbyterian essays defending justification by faith and imputed righteousness against Finney’s works-righteousness. Also meditations on death, heaven, and progressive sanctification.

Review of The Life of Ashbel Green

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Review and excerpts of Ashbel Green’s autobiography, tracing his Presbyterian ministry, role in founding institutions, Revolutionary-era recollections, and spiritual formation.

The History of Catechizing

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Historical survey of catechizing: early church catechumens, Augustine’s methods, catechists, and baptismal instruction shaping catechetical practice.

Trees

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Reprints official papers on Virginia’s 1651 surrender. Also contains an essay praising trees’ cultural and aesthetic worth, and a favorable review of Macaulay’s History of England.

Books and Business

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Advice for businessmen to simplify libraries, select a few excellent books, and read them deeply to maximize scarce time. Includes a reminiscence of John Robinson and a note on aesthetics.

Education Among Merchants

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Travel reminiscence of Princeton (1801) followed by essays critiquing merchants’ neglect of liberal education and urging freedom in literary expression and composition.

German Church History

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Review of K. R. Hagenbach’s lectures on 18th–19th century German Protestantism, outlining pietism, rising rationalism, toleration, and confessional conflicts.

German Hymnology

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Survey of German hymnology focusing on Luther’s hymns, editions, melodies, and the rise of congregational singing in the Reformation.

Le Pays Latin

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1850 Princeton Magazine pieces on Gothic language scholarship and on ‘Le Pays Latin’—Latin student life, verses, and reflections on Wordsworth. Covers grammars, Sorbonne anecdotes, and classical verse.

Letters on the Early Latin Writers

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Explores the ‘physiognomy’ of houses and introduces letters on early Latin writers, tracing Rome’s literary origins, Greek influence, and the development of the Latin language.

Machinery and Labour

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Argues that labour-saving machinery, while displacing some jobs short-term, expands overall employment, raises living standards, and creates new trades; workers should adopt or adapt.

Merry Men

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Short essays: praise and critique of Wordsworth, a moral sketch of ‘merry men’ warning against convivial excess and ruin, and counsel on economy of thought and honesty.

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