Verlag: The Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and Ireland
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Undated. Signed by Author (Unverified). Slight fading to the cover edges. Annotations to some page edges/pages, may include notes, highlighting or underlining. A good condition 32 page booklet.
Verlag: Printed at the Government Press, 1825
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
pp. 25, 8vo, late 20th-century calf backed boards. Scarce. The occasion was the commutation of the death sentence 'in front of the troops', passed on Private William Nowland 'for striking his Captain.' This was printed for distribution among the troops: possibly the troops did not much relish the tract, and so discarded it. In his peroration, the Rev. Hough tells the troops how fortunate they are - 'You are better off than the great bodies of men engaged in manufacturing or in agricultural employments; better off, perhaps, than two-thirds of the whole English population; and incomparably better paid, better fed, better clothed, better lodged, and more humanely and beneficially treated, than any other Military Service of Europe. Act in all things from a sense of gratitude and duty.' (Medelssohn pp.737-38).