Item 180: Photostats by Unknown from the Massachusetts Magazine Depicting Prints of Bethlehem, P[ennsylvani]a, 1793 September
Item — Box: 22, Folder: 3
Dates
- Created: 1793 September
Creator
- Andrews, Ebenezer T., 1766 - 1851 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photostat
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
12 in. x 8 7/16 in.
Title:
Photostat copies of the Massachusetts Magazine
Description:
Three copies of a magazine article from 1793 describing thoughts on social intercourse and lithograph pictures of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bethlehem is located in the Northampton and Lehigh counties in eastern Pennsylvania. Settled along the 109-mile long Lehigh River tributary of the Delaware River, this city historically was inhabited by indigenous people that included the Algonquian speaking Lenape. They traded with Dutch and British colonists up the east coast. William Allen who was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant and politician deeded 500 acres along the Monocacy Creek and Lehigh River to the Moravian Church on April 2, 1741. The Moravians would have a grand settlement here and often held missions.
The Massachusetts Magazine was published from 1789 to 1796 in Boston, Massachusetts. “Also called the Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, it specialized in ‘poetry, music, biography, history, physics, geography, morality, criticism, philosophy, mathematics, agriculture, architecture, chemistry, novels, tales, romances, translations, news, marriages, deaths, meteorological observations, etc. etc.’” Founded by Isaiah Thomas and published by Ebenezer T. Andrews (1789-1793), Ezra W. Weld (1794), Samuel Hill (1794), William Greenough (1794-1795), Alexander Martin (1795-1796), Benjamin Sweetser (1796), and James Cutler (1796), it served as a “thermometer” for behaviors enacted by the nation that read it.
Isaiah Thomas was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19, 1749. He was an American printer, newspaper publisher, and author. He was the first to perform a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and reported the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He was also the founder of the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Magazine. He died April 4, 1831.
Ebenezer T. Andrews was born in 1766 in Boston, Massachusetts. He apprenticed under Isaiah Thomas from 1781 to 1788 and later started a partnership with him. He became a bookseller and publisher, remaining in Boston until he died on October 9, 1851.
Location:
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Massachusetts
Transcription:
THE
Massachusetts Magazine
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1793.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE.
THE present plate exhibits a delightful view of Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania, the principal residence of the Muravian Society. The figures from number [illegible] inclusive, point to the following places. Number 1, Lehigh Mountain. No. 2, Lehigh River. No. 3, Brewery. No. 4, the Widow’s house. No. 5, Houfe for young Women. No. 6, Boarding school for [illegible]. No. 7, Congregation Hall. No. 8, School [illegible] for Boys No. 9, Young Men’s House. No. 10, Store [illegible]. No. 11, Farm Houfe. No. 12, Tavern. No. 13, Grift Mill. No. 14 and 15, Tan Yards and Houses. No. 16, Old Mill. No. 17, Water Works.
Those who are [illegible] of [illegible] beautiful description of Bethlehem and its environs; with a particular amount of the religious customs and social policy of the brethren, are referred to the Massachusetts Magazine, vol. 5, 1791, page 363(?), under the signature of Couflantia(?).
THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
NOBODY but a blockhead proves tedious to a company. A man of the word presently comprehends, whether he ought to stay or go; and knows to a moment the time it is fit for him to leave those who with him at a distance.
If we were furiously to consider how uninteresting, frivolous, and puerile we generally are in ordinary conversation, we would be ashamed both to speak or to listen, and perhaps condemn ourselves to a perpetual silence.
The spirit of the [illegible] conversation does not so much consist in shewing we have some wit, as in behaving in such a manner that others may think they have some themselves. He that goes out of your company well pleased with himself, and with his own parts, is perfectly pleased with you. Men do not love so much to admire others; but they are disposed to draw approbation themselves, and chuse not so much to be [illegible] as to be applauded. The most delicate pleasures that of contriving to please others.
It is both [illegible] and shocking to support all we say in common conversation, be it ever [illegible], by much swearing and repeated [illegible]. An [illegible]to what he says, and makes every body [illegible] him.
He [illegible], that he is a man of [illegible] and integrity, and [illegible] he [illegible] to others, and
AN AUTHOR’S EVENINGS. 325 FOR THE PORT FOLIO. SKETCHES OF AMERICAN SCENERY. THE Susquehanna river enters the state of Pennsylvania about twelve miles from the Delaware, and after winding amount loft hills, turns at the GREAT BEND, to the north, and three miles further passes again through the state line at the twentieth mile stone, On the south west side of the Great Bend, stands a handsome little village. A this place the turnpike road to Newburg, in the state of Newyork, crosses the river, and is carried up the valley formed by the Salt-Lick creek, a part of which is seen in the annexed sketch. The county to which the Susquehanna has given a name, was formerly a part of Luzerne. FOR THE PORT FOLIO--AN AUTHOR’S EVENINGS. HE who is at all acquainted with my inquisitive humor and studious habits, will promptly credit me, when I assert that I am not absolutely a stranger to the comedies of Terence, and the fragments of Menander, and that the sublimity of Grecian tragedy is perfectly familiar to my memory and my heart. But all the plays of Plautus, merry as they unquestionably are, and all the scene, however solemn, of Eschylus and Euripides, are less than nothing, and altogether vanity, in comparison with the sterling gold of Shakespeare. But the bard of Avon, like every other erring mortal, has his egregious faults, and in the middle of his brightest rainbows we sometimes painfully discern the offensive vapour and the murky cloud. For the most part, no writer is more unequal; but, sometimes, like his own sublime eagle, in his pride of place, the Muse of the poet wings the boldest flight of elevated dignity. She scorns the base earth, and ruses on sustained pinion to the brilliant zenith of sunny glory. The peerless tragedy of Othello justifies these preliminary remarks. There is scarcely a character of minor importance in the whole play. We are introduced to the company of gallant
AN AUTHOR’S EVENINGS. 325 FOR THE PORT FOLIO. SKETCHES OF AMERICAN SCENERY. THE Susquehanna river enters the state of Pennsylvania about twelve miles from the Delaware, and after winding amount loft hills, turns at the GREAT BEND, to the north, and three miles further passes again through the state line at the twentieth mile stone, On the south west side of the Great Bend, stands a handsome little village. A this place the turnpike road to Newburg, in the state of Newyork, crosses the river, and is carried up the valley formed by the Salt-Lick creek, a part of which is seen in the annexed sketch. The county to which the Susquehanna has given a name, was formerly a part of Luzerne. FOR THE PORT FOLIO--AN AUTHOR’S EVENINGS. HE who is at all acquainted with my inquisitive humor and studious habits, will promptly credit me, when I assert that I am not absolutely a stranger to the comedies of Terence, and the fragments of Menander, and that the sublimity of Grecian tragedy is perfectly familiar to my memory and my heart. But all the plays of Plautus, merry as they unquestionably are, and all the scene, however solemn, of Eschylus and Euripides, are less than nothing, and altogether vanity, in comparison with the sterling gold of Shakespeare. But the bard of Avon, like every other erring mortal, has his egregious faults, and in the middle of his brightest rainbows we sometimes painfully discern the offensive vapour and the murky cloud. For the most part, no writer is more unequal; but, sometimes, like his own sublime eagle, in his pride of place, the Muse of the poet wings the boldest flight of elevated dignity. She scorns the base earth, and ruses on sustained pinion to the brilliant zenith of sunny glory. The peerless tragedy of Othello justifies these preliminary remarks. There is scarcely a character of minor importance in the whole play. We are introduced to the company of gallant
Creator
- Andrews, Ebenezer T., 1766 - 1851 (Person)
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu