Yet plainer English : Or, The shortest-way to convert the atheist, murderer, thief, whoremaster, strumpet, drunkard, swearer, lyar, Sabbath-breaker, slanderer, persecutor, coward, gamester, ungrateful, scold: and other scandalous livers. The third edition. Dedicated to the Reverend Mr. William Bisset author of the Reformation sermons; intituled, plain English, and more plain English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpe, Isaac, 1695-1718.

Contributor:

Malthus, Sarah, active 1700?-1706, bookseller.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs--Early works to 1800.

Manners and customs.

Courtesy--Early works to 1800.

Courtesy.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 106 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Malthus in London-House-yard, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1704.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Signatures: A-O⁴.

Attributed to Sharpe by James Burmester, Catalogue 41, 1999.

On t.p. 'Dedicated to the Reverend Mr. William Bisset Author of the Reformation Sermons; Intitled, Plain English, and More Plain English.'

This pamphlet takes the form of an amusing and scurrilous character book satirising the proposals Bisset made in his sermon 'Plain English'.

The edition may be false: William Bisset published 'Plain English', a sermon for the reformation of manners, and 'More Plain English' in 1704. Sharpe published two different pamphlets 'Plain English Made Plainer', and this could be another of his works.

Roman text, words requiring emphasis printed in black letter.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T301186.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.