James Beresford (writer)

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James Beresford
Born	(1764-05-28)28 May 1764
Died
Occupation	writer, clergyman
Notable work	The Miseries of Human Life (1806–07)

James Beresford (28 May 1764 – 29 September 1840) was a writer and clergyman. He made translations and wrote religious books, but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work, The Miseries of Human Life, considered to be a "minor classic in the genre".

Bibliography

This list of works is taken from Beresford's obituary, published in the May 1841 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine.

• The Æneid of Virgil (1794)
• The Song of the Sun (1805)
• The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
• The Miseries of Human Life (1806)
• A Discourse on Cruelty to the Brute Creation (1809)
• Bibliosophia, or Book-Wisdom (1810)
• A Thanksgiving Sermon (1814)
• Does Faith Insure Good Works? (1814)
• A Letter to Philo, in Answer to his Objections Against an Essay on Faith and Works (1815)
• An Examination of the Doctrines of Calvin (1818)
• On the Objects and Services of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Diocesean and District Committees (1819)
• The Cross and the Crescent, an Heroic Metrical Romance (1824)
• Stand! An Earnest Address to the Friends of an Embodied Church in England and Ireland (1835)