Mills John Local Deacon Methodist (1 results)

Hardcover. xix, [21]-263, [1] p.; front. (duotone lithographed portrait); 19 cm. Gift inscr.from author's daughter, Susan M. Dean, on ffep On the millennium: `I believe that when six thousand years shall have passed from the time when the earth first brought forth sin, it will be purified by fire. That period, according to the common chronology, will be about the year 1996 of the Christian era.' (p. 199) -- `Depraved appetites. 'Tis passing strange that boys can love / Tobacco and strong drink; / That God or nature gives the taste, / No one pretends to think. // Example first inspires the thought, / Then quickly comes desire, / Urging the slumbering appetite / The habit to acquire. // [stanzas 3-18] // Then let each one that reads my rhyme / Observe how evil flows, / Avoid the cup, and never make / A smoke-house of his nose. // True wisdom says, begin in youth / Good habits to acquire; / Then when the eve of life draws on / You'll have your heart's desire.' (p. 207 f.) -- Kaplan, Bibliography of American autobiographies 4016. Good edgeworn orig. black cloth. Outer leaves lightly foxed. …