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The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys

Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid

Humphreys, David (1752-1818)

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ADDRESS TO THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A POEM ON THE HAPPINESS OF AMERICA.

PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION OF THE POEM ON THE HAPPINESS OF AMERICA.

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A POEM ON THE FUTURE GLORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A POEM ON THE INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT OF PORTUGAL.

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A POEM ON THE LOVE OF COUNTRY. IN CELEBRATION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

TO HIS MAJESTY LOUIS, KING OF ETRURIA, HEREDITARY PRINCE OF PARMA, INFANT OF SPAIN, &c. &c. &c.

ORIGINAL PREFACE On the first Publication of the two following Poems, which were written when the Author was Minister in Spain.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A POEM ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.

TO Mrs. WASHINGTON, At Mount-Vernon.

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OCCASIONAL POEMS.

ELEGY ON THE BURNING OF FAIRFIELD, IN CONNECTICUT.

ELEGY ON LIEUTENANT DE HART,

AN EPITAPH. ALEXANDER SCAMMEL,

A LETTER TO A YOUNG LADY IN BOSTON,

AN EPITHALAMIUM.

ALEXANDER's FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC:

AN EPISTLE TO DR. DWIGHT.

THE GENIUS OF AMERICA.

PROLOGUE TO THE WIDOW OF MALABAR:

EPILOGUE TO THE WIDOW OF MALABAR.

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FAREWELL, FROM THE ABBE O'MOORE, ADDRESSED TO THE HONOURABLE DAVID HUMPHREYS,

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Him young a model for our youth behold!
No dupe to pleasure and no slave to gold;
Above low pride, nor smit with love of pow'r,
Nor idly changing with the changing hour:
Each headstrong passion curb'd, each sense refin'd,
Devote to virtue all his mighty mind!—
That mighty mind, correct, capacious, strong,
Discriminating clearly right from wrong;
By Meditation's lamp soon learn'd to scan
The dark recesses of the heart of man—
Modest, not bashful, ev'n in timid youth,
Nor obstinate, but nobly firm for truth;
Of others' counsels, his own judgment such,
He priz'd them nor too little nor too much;
And chief, that happiest skill to him was known,
When others' to prefer and when his own.

General Washington constantly declined receiving any thing from the public, but merely for the purpose of defraying his expenses. At the close of the war he rendered an account to government, in his own hand-writing, of all the public money which had been expended by or for him.