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  A discourse concerning the conversion of the heathen Americans, and the final propagation of Christianity and the sciences to the ends of the earth. In two parts. Part I. Preached before a voluntary convention of the Episcopal clergy of Pennsylvania, and places adjacent, at Philadelphia, May 2d, 1760; and published at their joint request. Part II. Preached before the trustees, masters and scholars of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, at the first anniversary commencement. / By William Smith, D.D. provost of the said college and academy.
  Date of publication:
  1760
  

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  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768, dedicatee. ; College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.
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  Dedicated to Thomas Secker. The 1790 edition recorded by Bristol is a ghost of the present edition. Booksellers' advertisement, p. [55-56].
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  A general idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the method of teaching science and religion, in the several classes: and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals, &c. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New-York. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1753
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
  Description:
  Outlining "a purely fictitious institution" to show the kind of college William Smith thought suitable for a new country. The concept informed the founding of the University of Pennsylvania. Cf. Wood, G.B. Early hist. of ...
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  A poem on visiting the Academy of Philadelphia, June 1753. [Three lines in Latin from Virgil]
  Date of publication:
  1753
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
  Description:
  Dedication to the trustees of the Philadelphia Academy signed by the author on p. iv: William Smith, Philadelphia, June 5, 1753. Smith wrote this poem during his first visit to the new Academy. "Ascribed to B[enjamin] ...
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  A sermon on the present situation of American affairs. Preached in Christ-Church, June 23, 1775. At the request of the officers of the Third Battalion of the city of Philadelphia and district of Southwark. / By William Smith, D.D. Provost of the college in that city.
  Date of publication:
  1775
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N11435) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 14460) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A sermon preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, (for the benefit of the poor) by appointment of and before the general communication of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday December 28, 1778. Celebrated, agreeable to their constitution, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. / By William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia.
  Date of publication:
  1779
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee. ; Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
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  Dedicated to George Washington by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing "for the benefit of the poor" in title. With an errata slip. "... short account of the procession of ...
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