The proper objects of education in the present state of the world: represented in a discourse, delivered on Wednesday, the 27th of April, 1791, at the meeting-house in the Old-Jewry, London to the supporters of the New College at Hackney / by Joseph Priestley ... To which is subjoined, a prayer delivered at the same time. By Thomas Belsham.

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