Item #17908 SUN-BEAMS MAY BE EXTRACTED FROM CUCUMBERS, BUT THE PROCESS IS TEDIOUS. AN ORATION, PRONOUNCED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1799. AT THE REQUEST OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW-HAVEN. David Daggett.
SUN-BEAMS MAY BE EXTRACTED FROM CUCUMBERS, BUT THE PROCESS IS TEDIOUS. AN ORATION, PRONOUNCED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1799. AT THE REQUEST OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW-HAVEN.

SUN-BEAMS MAY BE EXTRACTED FROM CUCUMBERS, BUT THE PROCESS IS TEDIOUS. AN ORATION, PRONOUNCED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1799. AT THE REQUEST OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW-HAVEN.

New Haven: 1799. Half title, 28pp. Bound in modern cloth. Scattered foxing. Good+ or so.

The title is from Swift's 'Voyage to Laputa.' Daggett quotes abundantly from it, to illustrate his concern that inventions and faddish thinking will cause people to forget "the foolish habit of temperance, industry and exercise."
Daggett attacks modern education, which asserts "that music, and painting, and dancing, and fencing, and speaking French, were the only accomplishments worth possessing." The Connecticut Federalist blames French cultural influences for seeking "to introduce a new order of things as it respects morals and politics, social and civil duties." He attacks Citizen Genet and the Jeffersonians--"French emissaries and American jacobins" who "have been constantly plotting and executing treasons against our government." This is the first of two 1799 editions.
FIRST EDITION. Evans 35370. 29 Decker 075. Item #17908

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