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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T067164 London : printed and sold by Aaron Ward; and H. Whitridge, 1733. 48p. ; 8°
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T089608 London : printed and sold by Aaron Ward; and H. Whitridge, 1733. 4,39,1p. ; 8°
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John Gill was born on May 17, 1732, in Charlestown, Massachusets. He was the third of five children.
He was the son of Capt. John and Elizabeth Abbot Gill, and the grandson of Lieut. -Col. Michael Gill, an immigrant from Dover, England.
The boy was apprenticed to the Boston printer, Samuel Kneeland, whose daughter Ann he afterward married.
On April 7, 1755, Gill and Benjamin Edes began to publish the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, in continuation of the second paper in Boston, started in 1719, but they did not confine their activity to the newspaper.
Evans in his American Bibliography lists more than 150 of their imprints. Some were merely broadsides and pamphlets - sermons, polemics, and the like - but occasionally they printed books, among which were a Latin textbook, various religious imprints, and Volume II, numbers 2 and 3 (1755) of Prince’s Annals of New-England.
They were for several years official printers. After 1764 their imprints were increasingly propagandic, reflecting the character of their journal, for the Gazette became so prominent as an organ of the radicals that in September 1774 the British soldiers were urged to remember “those trumpeters of sedition, the printers Edes and Gill. ”
Their office was a gathering place of the leaders and from it the Boston Tea Party set forth. Gill seems to have confined his activities to his business: his only connection with public affairs was as a member of the committee to demand the removal of the troops after the Massacre.
In April 1775, the partnership was dissolved, Edes escaping with printing materials to Watertown, where he continued the Gazette. Gill remained in town and was arrested on August 4 “by martial authority” for “printing treason, sedition, and rebellion, ” but was, on October 2, “so far liberated as to walk the Town”.
On May 30, 1776, after the siege, he started the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser, a colorless sheet in comparison with the antebellum Gazette, since it was primarily a newspaper with extracts from other prints, including some from “Jemmy Rivington’s lying Gazette. ”
During the war, however, it bore the caption: “The Entire Prosperity of Every State depends upon the Discipline of its Armies, ” and when not concerned with the ever-pressing questions of paper money, taxation, or price fixing, it gave emphasis to the need of supporting the military effort.
Under the new state constitution, the paper was conservative, supporting Bowdoin’s candidacy for the governorship in 1785. Gill became official printer again, continued the line of pamphlets, and for over a year ran in the paper a reprint of Robertson’s History of America.
He disposed of the Journal on April 28, 1785, as a protest against the state stamp act, “not choosing to submit to a measure which Britain artfully adopted as the foundation of her intended tyranny in America. ”
He died insolvent, leaving a numerous issue.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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Gill was married to Ann Kneeland, the daughter of the Boston's printer, Samuel Kneeland.
