Thoughts, Chiefly Designed as Preparative Or Persuasive to Private Devotion

Thoughts, Chiefly Designed as Preparative Or Persuasive to Private Devotion

Sheppard, John

London: Whittaker & Co., 1838

Internet Archive

1838

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 31 July to 02 August 1841. "If you return to town and make a prolongued stay there I really shall beg you to execute some commissions for me of the same kind as those you so nicely performed before. I can enclose the money in a letter as I should be rather extravagant if I had the opportunity. This is altogether a selfish letter, written to gratify my curiosity and obtain my own wishes. I shall so far persist in my self pleasing as to beg you to write me an answer as quickly as possible. Should a work, now I believe out of print entitled ‘Thoughts preparative or persuasive to private devotion’ by John Sheppard fall in your way, read it -- it is a sweet booklet of pious meditation adapted to accompany the Christian in all the windings of his experience. I am sorry to send you a letter that breathes no fragrance my Veronica but you will believe me when I tell you that I have much business for body and mind. Lebe wohl --" GEL 1: 101-2

Sheppard, John, Thoughts, Chiefly Designed as Preparative Or Persuasive to Private Devotion, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57799

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