WorkHugh Blair

“Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres”

Hugh Blair (1718–1800)

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Documented 1824

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  • 1824Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresAttested

    “I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824

    Same explicit studying statement names Blair's Rhetoric.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
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1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1824—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.