Authority Cited: Decay of Piety; Decay
Author name and dates: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety (1667) Richard Allestree? (1619-1681)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; served in Royalist army; possible author of Govt. of Tongue, Whole Duty of Man, Decay of Piety
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 260 Decay of Piety cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 230 cites in Dict. vol. 2. Nine Decay of Piety cites were identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic in the list below. No additional Decay of Piety cites were identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 2. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.231, n.6) says that the Decay of Piety additions in 1773 Dict. vol.1 were recycled quotes and no new text was added. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown.]
Author name and dates: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety (1667) Richard Allestree? (1619-1681)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; served in Royalist army; possible author of Govt. of Tongue, Whole Duty of Man, Decay of Piety
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 260 Decay of Piety cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 230 cites in Dict. vol. 2. Nine Decay of Piety cites were identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic in the list below. No additional Decay of Piety cites were identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 2. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.231, n.6) says that the Decay of Piety additions in 1773 Dict. vol.1 were recycled quotes and no new text was added. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown.]
- Decay of Piety: The causes of the decay of Christian piety, or, An impartial survey of the ruines of Christian religion, undermin'd by unchristian practice, Written by the author of The Whole Duty of Man, 1667, London: Printed by R. Norton for T. Garthwait in S. Bartholomews Hospital; near Smithfield; OR The causes of the decay of Christian piety. Or an impartial survey of the ruins of Christian religion, undermin'd by unchristian practice. Written by the author of The whole duty of man, 1704, London : printed by J. H. for E. and R. Pawlet, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstree; abet; abhor; actuate; address; affectedly; armature; attribution; bacchanales; barter; combat; command; commend; conspiritory; deadly; deal; designment; diversion; earnest; Easter; eulogy; falsify; fantastik; gainlessness; galley-slave; hank; harmlessly; idolize; illiberally, indulgency (not in 1773 Dict.); joyless; illiberally; joyless; laboratory; laboriously; mad; magistrate; negotiate; notwithstanding; quirk; rank (2); set up; subordinate; tragicalness; transcribe; vastation; unagreeableness; wade; wear; zealous.