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John Heydon : Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus

'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much nonsense in print.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

John Heydon : Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus

'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much nonsense in print.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Creed      Print: Book

John Hey : Lectures in divinity

'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

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