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Contemplation - Early works to 1800

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An essay on an active and contemplative life: and, Why the one should be preferred before the other. By the right honourable, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]
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Meditations and contemplations. In two volumes. Containing, Vol. I. Meditations among the tombs; and, Reflectons on a flower-garden. Vol. II. Contemplations on the night; and, Contemplations on the starry heavens. By James Hervey, A.B. late of Lincoln-College, Oxford. The eighth edition. With many additions and alterations, taken from the sixth edition printed in London.
Hervey, James, 1714-1758.Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]
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The wonders of creation; or, Contemplations on the works of God. Written originally in German by C.C. Sturm. Translated into English by a Clergyman.
Sturm, Christoph Christian, 1740-1786.Date: 1791
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The prescience of God well agreeing with the liberty of created agents. Being a full answer to Mr. Fancourt's Free agency of accountable creatures, &c. With some short strictures upon his second letter. In which Liberty, Possibility, Contingency, Necessity, and many other Terms are clearly explain'd. By David Millar, A.M.
Millar, David, 1687 or 1688-1757.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]
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Contemplations on the ocean, harvest, sickness, and the last judgment. In a series of letters to a friend. By Richard Pearsall.
Pearsall, Richard, 1698-1762.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]