Evidence: | 'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I read through the whole four volumes of this sensible pleasing work; it was wrote by the late Mr Amory of Wakefield, and I know not of any work more proper to be put into the hands of a poor ignorant bigotted superstititous methodist... In short I saw that true religion was no way incompatible with or an enemy to rational pleasures of any kind. ... I now also began to read with great pleasure the rational and moderate divines of all denominations.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Feb 1776 and 28 Feb 1767 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Reader: | James Lackington |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 11 Sep 1746 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journeyman shoemaker |
Religion: | Wesleyan |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Amory |
Title: | The life of John Buncle |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1756-66 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 8554 | |
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Author: | James Lackington | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1791 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 164-7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Lackington, Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington (London, 1791), p. 164-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8554, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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