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The Family Library by R. Goadby is an 18th-century devotional, biographical, and moral miscellany issued as part of a cheap, family-oriented publishing project. Through a thorough portrait of Mrs. Rowe, a virtuous wife, widow, and philanthropist, the volume extols humility, filial and conjugal fidelity, extraordinary charity, and a life lived in obscurity from public acclaim. It interweaves biography, sermons, allegory, and nature writing to illuminate piety, providence, and self-improvement. The book situates itself within The Family Library program to educate both mind and heart for households with limited means, blending domestic instruction with travel writing, natural history, poetry, and moral exempla. Featured materials include the Theodore allegory (the Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe), segments about Seged of Ethiopia, and long discourse on seasons and nature as tutors. The ethics emphasize prudent charity, daily devotion, and a theology of nature as a school of virtue, combining exhortation with practical knowledge for everyday life.
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