AN ORATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE PBK SOCIETY, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, IN NEW-HAVEN, ON THE FIFTH OF DECEMBER, A. D. 1797.
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1798. 32pp, later plain wraps. Minor scattered foxing, Very Good.
This Oration rebuts the "current" notion "that a knowledge of the learned, or, as they are otherwise denominated, the dead languages, is in no way essential to the study of our own language, and, indeed, that it is productive of no valuable purpose whatever."
Marsh argues that such study "is the key to a great proportion of the sciences."
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