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The Life of Jedidiah Morse
As Richard Moss reveals in this compelling biography, Morse was caught in a personal dilemma that reflected the larger tensions within his society. On the one hand, he played the role of self-sacrificing minister - a role drawn from the expectations of his father and the Connecticut traditions in which he was reared. In this capacity, he adopted the language of Christian Republicanism and sought to defend the virtues of communitarian village life, austerity, and deference to the Federalist leadership. On the other hand, Morse recognized the opportunities offered by the emerging liberal, capitalist culture. As an author and speculator, he amassed a small fortune and became enmeshed in a web of financial gambles that ultimately ruined him.
The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D No small embarrassment has been experienced in the preparation of this Memoir, partly from a difficulty of selecting from the multiforrn labors of Dr. Morse those which are most worthy of an enduring record. And partly from the irrrmcnse mass of material out of which such a record was to be formed. So numerous and intimate were his relations with passing events, that his life might have easily been made the germ of the general history of his time; brrt as nothing so extensive as that was contem plated, it has only remained to select those facts' and experiences in his life which have proved of the greatest interest, introducing only so much of the...
A Narrative of the Controversy Between the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. and the Author
The controversy concerns whether Morse's intent to publish a history of New England impinged upon Adams' intent to publish the same, an abridgement of her earlier, longer work.
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A Narrative of the Controversy Between the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. And the Author (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from A Narrative of the Controversy Between the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. And the Author Gently refutes itself, and it is impossible that he can believe, that, if it were circulated, it could have ever injured him. Sec ondly, I remark, that his two charges are inconsistent. He pub lishes my statement, in which there is not only no hint of the, story of the ms. But such an account of his conduct, as makes the story impossible. He cannot think, that I, or my friends should, at the same time, propagate two stories, one of which would instantly destroy the effect of the other. Both of his charges, therefore, cannot be true. Thirdly, I cannot think, that Dr. Morse believes himself, when h...
