Miscellanies religious and moral, [1797 and later].

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Miscellanies religious and moral, [1797 and later].

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Manuscript commonplace book. Collection of prose extracts, sermons, anecdotes, and allegories on various moral and theological topics, including: divine providence exhibited in human history; proofs of the existence of God; the nature of the Holy Spirit; interpretation of sermons, parables, and scriptures; description and travel in Jerusalem, Greece, Egypt, and other lands of the Bible; nature and Creation; devotion, obedience, redemptive suffering, education of children, and other aspects of moral development; the dangers of gossip, disobedience, greed, and other vices; historical and biographical anecdotes, epitaphs, and excerpts from memoirs, on Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Byron, Haydn, Louis the 16th, Marie Antoinette, Marie Leszczyńska, and others; travel anecdotes concerning Turkey, Gibraltar, Pompeii, English gardens, abolitionists in Sierra Leone, and a pet monkey on board a ship. Several excerpts are in French. Items attributed to Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, Hannah More, Blair, Euler, Cappe, Jeremy Taylor, Zollickofe, Hunter, Locke, Goldsmith, and others.

1 v. (ca. 350 p.) ; 17 x 11 cm.

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