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Richard Allestree

  

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Richard Allestree : Ladies Calling, The

'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... "

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Richard Allestree : The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain

'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner      Print: Book

  

Richard Allestree : The whole new duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain

'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner      Print: Book

  

Richard Allestree : Whole Duty of Man, The

'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could derive no instruction. When, for instance, I had read the chapter on theft, which from my infancy I had been taught was wrong, I was no more convinced that theft was wrong than before; so there was no accession of knowledge".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

Richard Allestree : Government of the Tongue, The

'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our friends, a very worthy man, I, by way of a check, quoted some good admonition from "The Government of the Tongue", that very pious book.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

  

Richard Allestree : The Whole Duty of Man

'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literature of which we had a good deal on our bookshelves — theology, sermons, meditations for every day in the year, "The Whole Duty of Man", "A Call to the Unconverted", and many other old works of a similar character. Among these I found one entitled, if I remember rightly,"An Answer to the Infidel", and this work, which I took up eagerly in the expectation that it would allay those maddening doubts perpetually arising in my mind [...] reading one of the religious books entitled "The Saints Everlasting Rest" in which the pious author, Richard Baxter expatiates on and labours to make his readers realize the condition of the eternally damned [....]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

  

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