Manuscript on paper, in a single mixed hand, containing a copy of an edition of William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude. This version has 467 numbered precepts, aphorisms, and moral observations
Alternative Title:
Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
Description:
Six additional aphorisms, numbered 468-473, added at the end of the text in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Christian life, Conduct of life, Maxims, Military art and science, and Quakers
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of this collection of lives of saints, Biblical figures, and political persons in recent European history, as well as portraits of ideal figures such as "The Good Wife," "The Good Husband," and "The Handicrafts M...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. and Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Characters and characteristics, English poetry, Ethics, and Maxims
Attributed to Horace Walpole in the British Museum catalogue. Now known not to have been created by Walpole or printed at Strawberry Hill. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Horace Walpole, page 173 and his Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, pag...
