The Character of the Gentleman: An Address to the Students of Miami University, on the Evening Before Commencement Day, in the Month of August, 1846

by Franis Lieber

$275 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Cincinnati: J. A. James, 1846. First Edition. Leather and marbled boards. Octavo. 31 pages. A glimpse into the moral imagination of one of America's great jurists as he turns his attention from the law to personal character in this address to the young men graduating from Ohio's Miami University in 1846. Lieber had immigrated to the United States from Prussia in 1827, and here, in true

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