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Thomas Gisborne

 

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Thomas Gisborne : The Testimony of Natural Theology

'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Thomas Gisborne : The Testimony of Natural Theology

'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which an argument of so very popular a description should be pressed on the attention of common readers [... ] there is an imitation of Paley's manner of putting an argument but the manner very inferior [to]Paley.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Thomas Gisborne : [conduct books]

[Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a less rigid plan of admonition, especially the volume dedicated to females.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Seward      Print: Book

  

Thomas Gisborne : An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex

'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

 

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