See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- THOMAS COOPER (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
COOPER (1759–1840)
, See also:American educationalist and See also:political philosopher, was See also:born in See also:London, See also:England, on the 22nd of See also:October 1759, and educated at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
Threatened with See also:prosecution at See also:home because of his active sympathy with the See also:French Revolution, he emigrated to See also:America about 1793, and began the practice of See also:law in See also:Northumberland See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania
.
He was See also:president-See also:judge of the See also:Fourth See also:District of Pennsylvania in 18o6–1811
.
Like his friend See also:Joseph See also:Priestley, who was then living in Northumberland, he sympathized with the See also:Anti-Federalists, and took See also:part in the agitation against the See also:Sedition See also:Act, and for a newspaper attack in 1799 on President See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper was convicted, fined and imprisoned for See also:libel
.
Like Priestley, Cooper was very highly esteemed by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Jefferson, who secured for him the See also:appointment as first See also:professor of natural See also:science and law in the University of See also:Virginia—a position which Cooper was forced to resign under the fierce attack made on him by the Virginia See also:clergy
.
After filling the See also:chair of See also:chemistry in See also:Dickinson See also:College, See also:Carlisle, Pa
.
(1811–1814), and in the University of Pennsylvania (1818-1819), he became professor of chemistry in See also:South Carolina College, at See also:Columbia; in 1819, and afterwards gave instruction in politicaleconomy also
.
In r 820 he became acting president of this institution, and was president from 1821 until 1833, when he resigned owing to the opposition within the See also:state to his liberal religious views
.
In See also:December 1834, owing to continued opposition, he resigned his professorship
.
He had been formally tried for infidelity in 1832
.
He was a born agitator: John Adams described him as " a Iearned, ingenious, scientific and talented madcap." Before his college classes, in public lectures, and in numerous See also:pamphlets, he constantly preached the See also:doctrine of See also:free See also:trade, and tried to show that the protective See also:system was especially burdensome to the South
.
His remedy was state See also:action
.
Each state, he See also:con-tended, was a See also:sovereign See also:power and was in See also:duty See also:bound to protest against the tyrannical acts of the Federal See also:government
.
He exercised considerable See also:influence in preparing the See also:people of South Carolina for See also:nullification and See also:secession; in fact he pre-ceded See also:Calhoun in advocating a See also:practical application of the state See also:sovereignty principle
.
The last years of his See also:life were spent in preparing an edition of the Statutes at Large of the state, which was completed by See also:David See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James McCord (1797–1855) and published in ten volumes (1836–1841)
.
Dr Cooper died in Columbia on the , rth of May 1840
.
As a philosopher he was a follower of See also:Hartley, See also:Erasmus See also:Darwin, Priestley and See also:Broussais; he was a physiological materialist, and a severe critic of Scotch See also:meta-physics
.
Among his publications are Political Essays (1800); An See also:English Version of the Institutes of Justinian (1812); Lectures on the Elements of Political See also:Economy (1826); A See also:Treatise on the Law of Libel and the See also:Liberty of the See also:Press (183o); and a See also:translation of Broussaist On Irritation and See also:Insanity (1831), with which were printed his own essays, "The Scripture Doctrine of Material-ism," " View of the Metaphysical and Physiological Arguments in favour of See also:Materialism," and Outline of the Doctrine of the Association of Ideas."
See I
.
See also:Woodbridge See also:Riley, American See also:Philosophy: the See also:Early See also:Schools
(New See also:York, 1907)
.
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