REV. JASPER ADAMS, D. D.,

PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND (EX OFFICIO) HORRY
PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES, AT COPENHAGEN; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES, AT BOSTON, &c.

"Nulla enim vitæ pars, neque publicis neque privatis, neque forensibus neque domesticis
in rebus; neque si tecum agas quid, neque si cum aliquo contrahas, vacare officio potest :
in eoque colendo sita vitæ est honestas omnis, et in negligendo turpitudo."

CICERO, DE OFFICIIS, LIB. I. c. 2.

UNIVERSITY OF

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NEW YORK:

WILEY AND PUTNAM,

No. 161, BROADWAY.

1837.

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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1837,

by JASPER ADAMS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the District of South Carolina.

(6074)

..CAMBRIDGE

FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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TO

THE HONORABLE

JOSIAH QUINCY, LL.D.,

PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

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MINNESOTA

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