Miscellanies religious and moral, [1797 and later].

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

English

Binding: Half green morocco with gold tooling, over marbled boards; title on spine: Miscellane M.S.S.

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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.

August 08, 2005

Miscellanies Religious and Moral. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Miscellanies Religious and Moral. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Commonplace books.