The Wanderings of Woe, or Conjugal Affection. A Tribute to the Memory of a Beloved Wife. With an Appendix containing The Wrongs of the Academical Clergy, &c. &c.

Cox, James (Rev.)

Verlag: Published by Mawman, and Cadell and Davies: Parker and Cooke, and Bliss, London, 1813

Beschreibung

Lacking the frontispiece. Joints rubbed. Moderate rubbing to spine and edges of boards. Small loss of leather at tips of corners of boards. ; 6, [2], 123, [1 (blank)] pages. Lacking the frontispiece (stub remaining where it has been cut away). Half-title leaf present. Contemporary acid-etched full calf boards, with red lettering piece on spine, gilt decoration to spine. Page dimensions: 156 x 91mm. Spine title: "WANDER / INGS / OF WOE". The main text of the poem "Wanderings of Woe" is on pages 1-94. This is followed by an Appendix on page 95. The contents of the Appendix are: The Wrongs of the Academical Clergy; The Wrongs of Industry; The Wrongs of Women; A Prayer. "Does ostentation build the hospital, / The naked clothe? The meed of charity / Is cliam'd. Thus bigotry, revenge, may do / Religion's work. The Royal leher thus / DEFENDER OF THE FAITH is styl'd: that faith, / Which, right or wrong, to him no care, he soon / Down from his pulpits thrust. The golden scales / Which weigh out Heaven's indulgences to sin, / Had Luther's Order held, all had been well." - page 14. "Laws should be proportioned in severity to the enormity of the crime. And this offence against morality, as well as that stigma upon humanity, the vice of duelling, might be struck out of the catalogue of crimes and miseries, if there were a determination in the makers and enforcers of laws to effect objects so desirable." - from "The Wrongs of Women", page 114. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22740

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Titel: The Wanderings of Woe, or Conjugal Affection...

Verlag: Published by Mawman, and Cadell and Davies: Parker and Cooke, and Bliss, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1813

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good+

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.