George Washington Burnap

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George Washington Burnap (November 30, 1802, in Merrimack, New Hampshire – September 8, 1859, in Baltimore) was a Unitarian clergyman of the United States.

Biography

His father was a

D.D. from Harvard College.[2]

He was the first person to write "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for" in his Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman.[3] This quote is often misattributed to such writers as Immanuel Kant and Joseph Addison.

Works

He was a voluminous writer, chiefly on theological and controversial subjects. His principal works are:

  • Lectures on the Doctrines in Controversy between Unitarians and other Denominations of Christians (1835)
  • Lectures on the History of Christianity (1842)
  • Expository Lectures on the principal Texts of the Bible which relate to the Doctrine of the Trinity (1845)
  • Life of Leonard Calvert in Jared Sparks' The Library of American Biography, Volume IX (1846)
  • The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures (1848)
  • Lectures to Young Men on the Cultivation of the Mind, the Formation of Character, and the Conduct of Life (1848)
  • Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman (1849)
  • Lectures on the Doctrines of Christianity (1850)
  • Christianity, its Essence and Evidence (1855)

Essentials of happiness quotation

Published in Burnap's The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures (1848), Lecture IV: "The grand essentials of happiness in this life are: Something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Harris Elwood Starr (1929). "Burnap, George Washington". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. ^
    The American Cyclopædia
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  3. OCLC 867830991
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  4. ^ Burnap, George Washington (1848). The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures. J. Murphy. something to do.
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