Authority Cited: Nelson [Robert]
Author name and dates: Robert Nelson (1656-1715)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lay religious writer; non-juror; SJ adds quotes from popular (10,000 copies in four years) theology manual in 1773 Dict.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Nelson cited for etymology of emberweek in 1755 Dict. (see Mareschal). Seven Nelson cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. Vol. 1, 45 Nelson cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. Vol. 2, indicated in bold italic below. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, also counts 45 cites in 1773 Dict. Vol. 2 and indicates that they are from the title below. The edition that SJ used is unknown, the 1st edition of the title below was 1705.]
Author name and dates: Robert Nelson (1656-1715)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lay religious writer; non-juror; SJ adds quotes from popular (10,000 copies in four years) theology manual in 1773 Dict.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Nelson cited for etymology of emberweek in 1755 Dict. (see Mareschal). Seven Nelson cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. Vol. 1, 45 Nelson cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. Vol. 2, indicated in bold italic below. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, also counts 45 cites in 1773 Dict. Vol. 2 and indicates that they are from the title below. The edition that SJ used is unknown, the 1st edition of the title below was 1705.]
- A Companion to the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: with collects and prayers for each solemnity, the Ninth Edition, 1715, London: printed by W. Bowyer, for J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-row; emberweek (ember days in text, pp. 469-470, Nelson cites Mareschal's Observations upon the Saxon Gospels, but there may not be an English translation)
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