Authority Cited: Delany
Author name and dates: Patrick Delany (1685?-1768)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish Anglican theologian; well-off by marriages; friend and supportive biographer of Swift; source for SJ Swift “Life”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: two Delaney cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Delaney cite in 1755 Dict. vol.2. Two Delany cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. vol. 2, indicated in bold italic below. The editions used by SJ are unknown.]
Author name and dates: Patrick Delany (1685?-1768)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish Anglican theologian; well-off by marriages; friend and supportive biographer of Swift; source for SJ Swift “Life”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: two Delaney cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Delaney cite in 1755 Dict. vol.2. Two Delany cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. vol. 2, indicated in bold italic below. The editions used by SJ are unknown.]
- Revelation examined with candour. Or, a fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, To be given to Mankind from the Creation, as they are found in the Bible. By a professed friend to an honest freedom of thought in religious inquiries. ... . Containing Dissertations on the following Subjects; viz. I. Of the Forbidden Fruit. II. Of the Knowledge of the Brute World conveyed to Adam. III. Of his Knowlege of Marriage. IV. Of the Skill of Language infused into Adam. V. Of the Revelations immediately following the Fall. VI. Of the Mosaic Account of the Fall. Vii. Of Sacrifices. Viii. Of the Corruptions of Mankind, which caused the Deluge. IX. Of the natural Causes made use of by God to flood the Earth. X. Of the Ends of Divine Wisdom answered by the Deluge. XI. Of the Objections to the Mosaic Account of the Deluge. XII. Of the Concurrence of all Antiquity with the Mosaic Account of the Flood. XIII. Of other Testimonies relating to the Deluge. XIV. Of the Difficulties relating to Noah's Ark, 1745, London: printed for John and James Rivington, At the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard (the 1st edition was Dublin, 1732); accuracy (vol 2, p.xxix); ascend (vol. 1, p.177, cited as Delane's Revelation examined in 1755 Dict., Delaney's Revelation examined in 1773 Dict., perhaps from memory); mighty (vol. 2, p.xlvii, inexact quote, perhaps from memory; Dict: "The enemies of religion are but brass and iron, their mischiefs mighty, but their materials mean." Text: " . . . instruments . . . of brass and wood, their mischiefs mighty! but their materials, mean.")
- Sixteen discourses upon doctrines and duties, more peculiarly Christian; and against the reigning vanities of the age. By the author of the life of David, 1754, London: printed for John and James Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; vainly (p.17, a severely abridged quotation that might have appeared in an earlier publication)
- Observations upon Lord Orrery's remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Containing several singular anecdotes relating to the character and conduct of that great genius, and the most deservedly celebrated Stella. In a series of letters to his Lordship. To which are added, two original pieces of the same author (excellent in their kind) never before published, 1754, London: printed and sold by W. Reeve at Shakespear's Head near Serjeants-Inn Gate, Fleet-Street, and by A. Linde in Catherine-Street in the Strand (Preface signed J.R., published posthumously in 1772 with Delany as author); starter (p.107, Dict.: "If Sheridan was [text: If he were] not the staunchest hound in the pack, he was at least the best starter.")
- Delany (no work cited);