[Commonplace book], [ca. 1830].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1830].

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Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 35 primarily religious prose and verse meditations upon the subjects of affliction, suffering, and death. Prose entries include Abstracts of Admonitions on Subjects for Meditation to Have Recourse to According to Circumstances; Consolatory Texts of Scripture; and Meditation on Death. Verse entries include "On a Butterfly, which hovered into View from some unknown retreat on the 16th March 1830 and remained fluttering in the window while the funeral of a dear friend was passing by," "Verses Supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk during his Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez" by William Cowper, "Death" by Beilby Porteus, and, with slight emendations, the poem "The Old Man's Comforts, And How He Gained Them" by Robert Southey.

1 v. (68 p.) ; 24 x 19 cm.

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