Day, Thomas, an eccentric philanthropist, born in London; author of “Sandford and Merton”; he was a disciple of Rousseau; had many a ludicrous adventure in quest of a model wife, and happily fell in with one to his mind at last; was a slave-abolitionist and a parliamentary reformer (1748‒1789).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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