A Discourse, Delivered in Boston, at the Solemn Festival in Commemoration of the Goodness of God in Delivering the Christian World from Military Despotism, June 15, 1814.
Boston: Henry Channing, 1814.
Price: $150.00
About the item
1 vols. 8vo. Modern brown buckram, bright crimson morocco title label on upper cover, original wrappers bound in. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. Some fading to covers, some foxing, else very good.
Item #48997
This William Ellery Channing (1782-1842) was the uncle of the more famous William Ellery Channing. The elder Channing graduated with distinction from Harvard at the ripe age of 18. His first and only pastoral settlement was a small church on Federal Street in Boston, June 1803. Shortly thereafter, Channing became closely identified with the intellectual movement that ultimately spawned the North American Review, and a number of other journals. Channing gradually grew into a significant opponent of slavery without ever joining forces with the abolitionists or approving of what he deemed their "extremist" tactics. Channing's writings on Bonaparte (such as the present title) and other political figures earned him a solid literary and critical reputation in Europe as well as America.
