Sprague. A Discourse on True Magnanimity (1844) Attacks Dueling

Sprague, William B. A Discourse on True Magnanimity, addressed particularly to Young Men, and delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany, February 25, 1844. Albany: Erastus H. Pease, 1844. First Edition. [9348] Yellow waxed paper wrapper, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, 56 pp., small hole in the margin of the last leaf. Good. Pamphlet. A sermon on the text Genesis 14:5, in which Joseph comforts his brothers who sold him into slavery. The author seeks to persuade young men that being magnanimous towards others is the mark of a real man, and of a real Christian. He attacks dueling, which may pass for the satisfaction of honor, but makes a man a murderer, the opposite of honorable.William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), born in Andover, Connecticut; graduated at Yale in 1815, and afterwards studied at Princeton for two years. He was ordained in the Congregational Church at West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1819 and was pastor there for ten years. In 1829 he accepted a call to the Second Presbyt