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...Brian Michael Norton This essay approaches Enlightenment theories of happiness through three forgotten but once highly popular treatises: John Norris’s An Idea of Happiness (1683), Thomas Nettleton’s A Treatise on Virtue and Happiness (1742), and James Harris’s “Concerning Happiness: A Dialogue...

... doctrines he preached during his entire adult life; the writings of John Norris, of Bemerton, highly praised by both Dunton and Sterne, would be a good place to begin. Duke University Press 2011 R Laurence Sterne’s Sermons and The Pulpit...

... 878. Exemplifying the latter, Mrs. Norris, Sir Thomas, and Mary Crawford all accuse Fanny of stubbornness and willfulness, as do many critics, including Auerbach, “Jane Austen's Dangerous Charm,” 209; Colin Jager, “ Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology” Modern Language Quarterly 63 (2002...

... as Belinda has been (i.e., prompting either praise or blame), see Christopher Norris, “Pope among the Formalists: Textual Politics and ‘The Rape of the Lock in Post- Structuralist Readings of English Poetry, ed. Richard Machin & Christopher Norris (Cambridge...

.... 19 ills. $140 Taylor, E. Derek. Reason and Religion in “Clarissa”: Samuel Richardson and “The Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton” (Burlington: Ashgate, 2009). Pp. vi + 171. $99.95 Thomas, Downing A., and Lisa Cody, eds. Studies in Eighteenth-­Century Culture, vol. 39 (Baltimore: Johns...

.... John Norris’s disparaging notice of John Fitzmaurice as one “certainly unfitted for a career in the world, . . . ​an awkward country bumpkin,” should be firmly discarded. See Norris’s Shelburne and Reform (London: Macmillan, 1963), 2. 19.  Fitzmaurice apparently inherited from his father...

...- mance on 17 December of the other ten members of the cast: Doggett, Bull- ock, Wilks, Booth, Keen, Mills, Johnson, Norris, Mrs. Bradshaw, and Mrs. Saunders.13 One must manually check each subsequent performance of every play performed more than once in a season. And there are other frustrating...

... habitation, where you must quit the musick of Opera’s for the roaring of the wind, plays for Mr Norris’s preaching, & the gayety of Assemblys for the melancholy noise of rooks, where instead of walking in the Park you would stick fast in a bog, if you was inclin’d (according...

..., and clergyman Samuel Wesley, with occasional additional help from philosopher Dr. John Norris of Bemerton. Dunton carefully concealed the actual membership of this group, however, and instead over several months developed the strategic fiction of an “Athenian Society” of a dozen men accomplished...

... have been Rowe who facilitated Bowden’s entry into print through her earlier connections with the Athenian Mercury. Indeed, Samuel Wesley (father of the more famous Wesley brothers) was one of the editors of the Mercury, alongside John Norris, whose work also appears...

... meddling aunt, Mrs. Norris, and his wealthy father Sir Thomas. Soon after Fanny arrives, he eases her grief over her separation from her birth fam- ily by offering her the means of writing to her beloved brother William. In the ensuing years, Edmund generously provides Fanny with a moral and intellectual...

.... 9. Ernest A. Cruikshank, The Life of Sir Henry Morgan (Toronto: Macmillan, 1935), 57 –58. 10. William Dampier, William Dampier: Buccaneer Explorer, ed. Gerald Norris (London: Folio Society, 1994), 39; de Lussan, Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas...

... in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book, vol. 28 (London Record Soc., 1991), p. 11. 58. London Metropolitan Archives, Calendar of Commitments to the Westminster House of Correction, WJ/CC/B 150. 59. London Metropolitan Archives...

... the public from 1759 until her marriage to John Norris, the MP from Rye, in 1765. She died in Bath in 1767. Appropriately, even her death was mysterious. Some accounts attribute it to lead poisoning from cosmetics, others to tuberculosis. For a scholarly sifting of the few facts and many fictions about...

..., there were four new entries, all of them on Britons born in the 1640s or later: the religious When Histor y Caught Up with Histor ians 5 9 writer Robert Nelson, the natural philosopher Isaac Newton, the antiquary William Nicholson, and the philosopher John Norris. Elsewhere, the edi- tors added numerous...

...: An Essay on Abjection , trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia Univ., 1982), 11, 95, 121–26. Countless other feminist poets, novelists, critics, and theorists, including Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Phyllis Trible, Angela Carter, Diana George, Kathleen Norris, Linda Pastan, Leda Whitman, and Maurya...