| Content Description | Contents as follows:
Folios 6v-7r: Passage entitled 'Rhetoria' containing headings 'Moral goodness requisite for true eloquence', 'To form a system 2 things are necessary', 'Science and art', and 'Rhetoric accused of being injurious, Arist[otle']s answer' [partly in Greek].
Folios 8v-10r: Passage entitled 'History', quotations taken from Lord Bolingbroke on History p.14 etc [Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 'Letters on the study and use of history', 1752].
Folios 141v-145r: Passages entitled 'Miscellaneous' containing headings 'Criticism', 'Human nature is developed by composition etc', 'There is no such thing as love of injustice treachery, ingratitude etc', 'A Christians privileges & its obligations - their effect', 'Slaves of pleasure & fashion etc are not disciples of Christ.
Note that there is evidence that 5 folios of text have been torn out between folios 145 and 146.
Folios 146-148: Passage entitled 'Account of a Belgian Lady's way of life' from Mrs Trollopes Belgium Vol 1 p.115. [possibly Frances Milton Trollope 'Belgium and Western Germany', 1834]
Folio 147v: Brief note entitled 'Miscellaneous. How sentimental'.
Folios 153v-173r: Passage entitled 'Rome'.
Folio 174v: Note stating that [King] James I died end of March 1625.
Folio 175: Passage entitled 'Clarendon's Rebellion'.
Note that all other folios are blank.
Volume is bound in tan coloured leather, with embossed gold decoration; leaves are edged in gold; contains a lock and key [which does not work].
Date: Volume is undated, but must be later in date that the publications it quotes. |