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Excerpt from Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical Remarks IT is said that the Romans were the first people who set up mile stones along their roads into the country, for the benefit of the way faring man. The wealthy travellers could take guides, when they wanted them, to save themselves labour and trouble, on their excur sions; and the professed tourist had skill and science enough to find his way by the great guides of nature, - the rivers and mountains the sun, moon, and stars - and the landmarks set up by his pre cursors - but 'tlie busmess man required these speaking stories directly in his way, to guide him on his journey. So, in the paths of knowledge, those who have leisure, and are not uhder the noces Sity of measuring time by hours, or distances by time, can course along at Will, and find amusement and instruction in every thing they look upon; and the professed scholar knows the tracks of his predecessors in the walks of literature, and can examine all the monuments they have established without fear or anxiety, for he can easily correct his errors, if he should fall into any. But those engaged in the busy scenes of life, and to whom literature is inci dental, sufl'er for want of a few directions in getting the most inform ation from the best sources in the shortest possible time.' They are thankful for being directed to the most splendid epochs of human knowledge, and fairly introduced to some of the best authors of any age of intelligence. If there be no royal road to geometry, there is a short cut to a respectable share of knowledge, both ancient and modem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American History The precarious situation of the first settlers. The colony of Massachusetts Bay. Winthrop, as a magistrate and historian, Dudley, Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Wilson, John Elliot, the apostle to the Indians. The Sheppards and their writings. Nathaniel Ward, Peter Bulkley, Nathaniel Rogers, Ezekiel Rogers. The founding of Harvard College. Presidents, Dunster, Chauncey, Hoar, Oaks, Rogers, Increase Mather. Methanafical science. John Sherman. Program of literature m the ancient dominion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Lorenzo Knapp was born on January 19, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States, the fifth of the six children of Isaac and Susanna (Newman) Knapp, and the fifth in descent from William Knapp, who settled in Watertown in 1630. His father was a sea-captain.
Samuel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1804 and read law with Theophilus Parsons. Later he received, through the influence of his friend Bishop Cheverus, the degree of Doctor of Laws from a Paris College.
Knapp opened the law office in Newburyport in 1809. He may be the "Samuel Knapp of Haverhill, gentleman, " who changed his name June 10, 1808, to Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. His first book, Letters of Shahcoolen, a Hindu Philosopher, Residing in Philadelphia; to His Friend El Hassan, an Inhabitant of Delhi (1802), was dedicated to John Quincy Adams. To Montesquieu and Goldsmith it owes little except its title; Shahcoolen's lucubrations on Mary Wollstonecraft and woman's rights, American poetry, American landscape, and other topics are steeped in juvenile solemnity.
Having little real aptitude for the law, he readily deviated into politics and the militia. He sat as a representative in the General Court, 1812-1816, acquired the title of colonel by service in the Second Division of the militia, and became the leading spread-eagle orator of the town, but in 1816 his Newburyport career ended abruptly with his imprisonment for debt. While in jail he wrote another pseudonymous volume, Extracts from the Journal of Marshal Soult (Newburyport, 1817). On his release he went to Boston, endeavored with some success to build up a law practice, but soon turned to the more congenial occupation of writing.
He contributed to the New England Galaxy and Masonic Magazine of his client, Joseph Tinker Buckingham; succeeded Alden Bradford as editor of the Gazette, 1824-1826; launched the Boston Monthly Magazine in June 1825 and kept it alive for fourteen impecunious months; delivered, August 2, 1826, the official Boston eulogy on Jefferson and Adams; and started a newspaper, the National Republican, which failed in 1827.
For some time thereafter he edited the National Journal in Washington. Later he lived in New York and was connected with the Commercial Advertiser. During a period of comparative affluence he rebuilt his father's farmhouse in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, as a summer home. Although he published a number of orations, two volumes of tales, and some other matter, his specialty was biography. As a biographer he is ornate, laudatory, and patriotic, and wholly untrustworthy. His Lectures on American Literature (1829) was the first attempt to weigh and measure the national literature. Since the country had not produced a sufficient quantity of literature for his purposes, Knapp had to piece out his book with chapters on "the naval character of our country" and numerous other irrelevancies; his pages glow with the patriotism of the Jacksonian era. In 1835 he returned to Massachusetts in poor health and settled in Hopkinton, where he died in 1838.
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Knabb was a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
On July 18, 1814, Knapp married Mary Ann, daughter of Amasa Davis of Boston, by whom he had two daughters.
