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A poem, on religious ignorance, pride & avarice; or, The modern priest : To which is added The gospel minister.

Author/creator Whitcomb, Chapman, 1765-1833
Other author/creatorWhitcomb, Chapman, 1765-1833. Gospel minister.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Massachusetts] : [publisher not identified] Printed for the purchasers, 1795.
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 45 x 20 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47682. ^A478749
General noteTwo poems attributed to Chapman Whitcomb by John C.L. Clark in a letter to Clarence S. Brigham; AAS correspondence for June 26, 1927. Cf. A Concise view of antient [sic] and modern religion ... Printed for Chapman Whitcomb (Bristol B11184).
General noteA poem, on religious ignorance ..., first lines: Ignatus, born somewhere, no matter where, train'd up in school, and taught to say his pray'r.
General noteThe gospel minister, first lines: Theologist, a free-born son of grace, sought first, in Jesus' school, to find a place.
General noteEvans 29332 records a four page edition of A poem, on religious ignorance ... Printed at Boston in 1795. However, between 1795 and 1813, many of Whitcomb's poems were printed, without imprints, at Leominster, Mass. Cf. Clark, John C.L. Notes on Chapman Whitcomb ... Lancaster, Mass., 1911, p. 14.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 37.1 x 15.2 cm.
References Bristol B9425
References Shipton & Mooney 47682
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47682).
Genre/formPoems 1795.
Genre/formBroadsides.

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