Authority Cited: Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
Author name and dates: ?Richard Allestree (1619-1681)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Royalist army; SJ childhood reading, W.D. of M. not cited until 4th ed; possible author of Govt. of T., Decay of P.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 6 Whole Duty of Man cites have been identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 1 and 33 cites identified in Dict. vol.2, as indicated by the bold italic headwords below. This title is also variously attributed to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Sterne, John Fell, Humphrey Henchman, and others. See the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 26, January 1754, p.26, for a partial discussion of authorship (image below).]
Author name and dates: ?Richard Allestree (1619-1681)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Royalist army; SJ childhood reading, W.D. of M. not cited until 4th ed; possible author of Govt. of T., Decay of P.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 6 Whole Duty of Man cites have been identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 1 and 33 cites identified in Dict. vol.2, as indicated by the bold italic headwords below. This title is also variously attributed to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Sterne, John Fell, Humphrey Henchman, and others. See the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 26, January 1754, p.26, for a partial discussion of authorship (image below).]
- The practice of Christian graces, or, The whole duty of man laid down in a plaine and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader: divided into XVII chapters, one whereof being read every Lords Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the year: with Private devotions for several occasions..... 1658, London: Printed by D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait at the Little North Door of St. Paul's (multiple subsequent editions, including a 1770 edition) OR The works of the learned and pious author of The whole duty of man. 1726, Printed at the theater in Oxford; and in London, by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most excellent Majesty (also an earlier 1684 edition); bangle; frequent; gesture; glorify; grace; gross; mispend; miss; necessaries; never; obedience; observe; occasional; offender; ourselves; outward (2); pale; particular; place; poison; private; profess; proud; quench; short; shortness; solemn; sudden (same q. as never); suit; sum; supplication; temporal; tender; that; the; time; turn away; warning; wrought; zeal