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Issue Details: First known date: 1835... 1835 An Essay on Christian Fortitude under Trials and Disappointments
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Notes

  • Cited in John Alexander Ferguson Bibliography of Australia (1945) No. 1974.
  • The work consists of a poem in two distinctive and separately titled parts and includes an extensive Preface written by Kentish describing the reasons for his arrival in New South Wales, his life in the colony and its trials and tribulations, his departure from the colony and his stranding in Cloudy Bay, New Zealand. A poem, All Things are by Comparison, Great or Small, Good or Evil, is contained in the Preface.
  • Dedication: ...The Rev. William Yates, A.M....

  • Epigraph: Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward - Job C.5, v.7

    All-gracious Providence, how wise and good/ Are all thy ways! were they but understood/ by blind, weak mortals, we should then perceive/ That which by faith alone, we now believe;-/ That nought's permitted howsoe'er it tend/ in our strong view, but is some wise end, / Ordained by Him who only can discern/ How pain to pleasure - ill to good my turn! - Australia, a Poem by the Author

  • The epigraph also appears, with a minor change in the second source, under the title for the poem An Essay on Christian Fortitude Under Trials and Disappointments.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:W. Jones , 1835 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
An Essay on Christian Fortitude Under Trials and Disappointmentsi"Who is The Christian? Who shall dare presume", Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish , single work poetry (p. 1-7)
Practical Application of the Foregoing Essay on Christian Fortitude Under Trials and Disappointmentsi"Come now my Soul, and serious converse hold", Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish , single work poetry (p. 17-23)
All Things are by Comparison, Great or Small, Good or Evili"To whom, to whom upon the surface broad,", Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish , single work poetry
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: W. Jones , 1835 .
      Extent: xii, 23 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • The National Library of Australia's copy is a MS copy, no. 5 of 6 in a volume with the title: Collection of six works, [18--]. Bound subsequent to publication.
      • Written as N. Lipscomb Kentish, Esq.
      • 'Printed by William Jones, Bridge Street' - Title page
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