COLLECTION

OF THE

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

OF

Professor Frisbie,

WITH

SOME NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.

BY ANDREWS NORTON,

Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature in Harvard University.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & Co.

1823.

BJ

CONTENTS.

NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF PROFESSOR

Memoir

Extract from a Letter to the Editor

Address at the Interment of Professor Frisbie

Obituary Notice

FRISBIE.

WRITINGS OF PROFESSOR FRISBIE.

Inaugural Address

Remarks on Tacitus

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lvii

Examination of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments

Remarks on the right and duty of government to

provide for the support of religion by law

Extracts from Manuscript Notes of Lectures.

On Right, as a quality of actions

Absolute Right

On the Theory of Self-love, or Prudence

Theory of Utility

Right, a simple idea

General principles respecting right actions

Moral Obligation

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