English Translation of Joseph Taylor's Funeral Oration for Edward Wigglesworth

Résumé du livre

This paper notebook, titled "A Funeral Oration," contains a handwritten English translation of Harvard student Joseph Taylor's Latin funeral oration for Harvard Professor Edward Wigglesworth that was published in 1765 following Wigglesworth's death on January 16, 1765. The translation begins, "The Scene is dosed! Wigglesworth, according to divine Appointment, hath finished his course, and paid the last debt to nature."