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Part I. 13 William Gilpin Life of William Baker, with his funeral sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin. 14 "Z." (Hannah More) The market woman, a true tale; or, honesty is the best policy. 15 Henry Fielding Murders: True examples of the interposition of providence, in the discovery and punishment of murder. 16 A new history of a true book in verse. 17
The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. By the early part of the 21st century, a tract referred to a brief pamphlet used for religious and political purposes. Tracts are often either left for someone to find or handed out. However, there have been times in history when the term implied tome-like works.
The first of the Scots tracts was The History of Maitland Smith, published in 1807 to raise funds to support the family of the executed criminal in the title. Other titles included The Happy daughter, or the history of Jean Morton. by Elizabeth Hamilton (writer). A 2nd collected edition ‘corrected and greatly enlarged’ was published in ...
The Tracts also provoked a secondary literature from opponents. Significant replies came from evangelicals, including that of William Goode in Tract XC Historically Refuted (1845) and Isaac Taylor. [3] The term "Tractarian" applied to followers of Keble, Pusey and Newman (the Oxford Movement) was used by 1839, in sermons by Christopher Benson. [4]
[3]: 91–92 A new tract house was built on the same site in 1846-1847. [2] Upon ATS's 1825 creation, it became the first organization in the U.S. formed specifically to give out religious tracts. [2] [5] Hallock subsequently served as the organization's secretary from 1825 to 1870, and as secretary emeritus until his death in 1880.
The Society also published reliegious tracts by women writers for use in overseas missions like the Missionary Birthday Book compiled by Lucy Currie, a missionary in Punjab, India. The Birthday book provided a daily passage for each day of the year with a bible verse, a hymn verse, and a piece of missionary history.
The Denham Tracts constitute a publication of a series of pamphlets and jottings on folklore, fifty-four in all, collected between 1846 and 1859 by Michael Aislabie Denham, a Yorkshire tradesman. Most of the original tracts were published with fifty copies (although some of them with twenty-five or even thirteen copies).
Renaissance historian John Dover Wilson posited, in his 1912 book Martin Marprelate and Shakespeare's Fluellen, [3] the Welsh soldier Roger Williams was the author of the first three tracts signed "Martin Prelate", with Penry authoring the subsequent tracts signed "Martin Junior" and the Warwickshire squire and Member of Parliament Job ...