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The scholar armed against the errors of the time; or, a collection of tracts on the principles and evidences of Christianity, the constitution of the church, and the authority of civil government. In two volumes. ... . the Whole Intended for the Information and Assistance of Young Students in our Schools and Universities; and published by a Society for the Reformation of Principles.
Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
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A help to a national reformation. Containing an abstract of the penal-laws against prophaneness and vice. A form of the warrants issued out upon offenders against the said laws. Directions to Inferior Officers in the Execution of their Office. Prudential Rules for the giving of Informations to the Magistrates in these Cases. A Specimen of an Agreement for the Forming of a Society for Reformation of Manners in any City, Town, or larger Village of the Kingdom. And Her Majesty's Proclamation for Preventing and Punishing Immorality and Prophaneness; and the late Act of Parliament against prophane Swearing and Cursing. To which is added, an account of the progress of the reformation of manners in England an Ireland, and other parts of the World. With Reasons and Directions for our Engaging in this Glorious Work. And the special obligations of magistrates To be diligent in the Execution of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the Effecting of a National Reformation. AS Also, Some Considerations offered to such unhappy Persons as are guilty of prophane Swearing and Cursing, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness, and are not past Counsel.
Date: 1706- Books
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The causes that obstruct the progress of reformation: with the means that warrant its hopes, and success. A sermon preached to the Society for Reformation of Manners, on Friday May 17, 1765. In the Parish Church of St. Swithin, London-Stone. And Published at their united Request. By Moses Browne, Chaplain of Morden-College, Blackheath, and Vicar of Olney, Bucks.
Browne, Moses, 1704-1787.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A help to a national reformation. Containing an abstract of the penal-laws against prophaneness and vice. A form of the warrants issued out upon offenders against the said laws. Directions to Inferior Officers in the Execution of their Office. Prudential Rules for the giving of Informations to the Magistrates in these Cases. A Specimen of an Agreement for the Forming of a Society for Reformation of Manners in any City, Town, or larger Village of the Kingdom. And her Majesty's Proclamation for preventing and punishing Immorality and Prophaneness; and the late Act of Parliament against prophane Swearing and Cursing. To which is added, an account of the progress of the reformation of manners in England an Ireland, and other Parts of the World: With Reasons and Directions for our engaging in this Glorious Work. And the special obligations of magistrates To be diligent in the Execution of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the effecting of a National Reformation. AS Also, Some Considerations offered to such unhappy Persons as are guilty of prophane Swearing and Cursing, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness, and are not past Counsel. Printed for the Ease of Magistrates, Ministers, and Inferior Officers, and the Direction and Encouragement of private Persons who in any Part of the Kingdom are engaged in the Glorious Work of Reformation, or are Religiously disposed to contribute their Endeavours for the Promoting of it.
Date: 1720- Books
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The history of Scotland, from the establishment of the Reformation, till the death of Queen Mary. To which are Annexed, Observations Concerning the Public Law and the Constitution of Scotland. By Gilbert Stuart, Doctor of Laws, and Member of the Society of Antiquaries at Edinburgh. In two Volumes. ...
Stuart, Gilbert, 1742-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Report of a committee appointed by the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York : on the expediency of erecting an institution for the reformation of juvenile delinquents.
Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York.Date: 1823- Books
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Pantheisticon: or, the form of celebrating the Socratic-Society. Divided into three parts. Which Contain, I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood. II. Their Deity and Philosophy. III. Their Liberty, and a Law, neither deceiving, nor to be deceived. To which is prefix'd a discourse upon the antient and modern societies of the learned, as also upon the Infinite and Eternal Universe. And subjoined, a short dissertation upon a two-fold philosophy of the pantheists, that is to be followed; together with an Idea of the best and most accomplished Man. Written originally in Latin, by the ingenious Mr. John Toland. And now, for the first time, faithfully rendered into English.
Toland, John, 1670-1722.Date: 1751- Books
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The declining birth-rate : its causes and effects /
. National Council of Public Morals. National Birth Rate-Commission.Date: 1916- Books
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Two sermons, the one urging the necessity of receiving, and the other answering all the excuses for not receiving the Lord's-Supper. Published at the Request of a Religious Society, as Proper to be Given away in particular Parishes, where the Sin of Non-Communicating is so General and apparently Obstructing a Reformation of Manners. By Peter Newcome, M. A. Vicar of Aldenham in Hertfordshire. The Second Edition, Reviewed.
Newcome, Peter, 1656-1738.Date: [1701]- Books
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The marquis de La Fayette's statement of his own conduct and principles. Containing also A comparative View of the French, and American Revolutions. Of the Condition of the People of both Countries. Of the Characters of Washington, Arictides, and Themistocles. Character and Description of the Court of France. Of the Jacobin Society. Tiny Symptoms of great Revolutions. A Reformation in Parliament: wherein dangerous. A Board of Oeconomy recommended. A Cermon to our H-of C- A Prayer to the Minister. A Reformation in the Church, recommended for the Purpose of liquidating the National Debt. Bishops-Wherein a Curse to every Nation. Lawyers-Wherein a Blessing. Strictures upon Messrs. Burke, and Paine. Translated from the original French, and most respectfully inscribed to the Whig Club.
La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Roche Yves Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A letter to the Rev. John Gottlieb Burkhardt, D. D. in vindication of the Established Doctrines of the Reformation; proved from the Three first Chapters of Genesis, by Chronological and Historical Arguments; as an answer to his System of Divinity for the use of Schools. Misrepresenting those doctrines as puzzling and uncharitable. By the Rev. Christopher Frederic Triebner, Late Missionary from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to the Emigrant Saltzburghers, and other Germans at Eben-Ezer, in Georgia, now Minister of a German Congregation in Great East-Cheap, Cannon-Street, And Author of the Key to the French Revolution.
Triebner, Christopher Frederic.Date: 1798- Books
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A Friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors. With an Humble Representation of the Necessity of restraining a Vice so destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People. To which are Added, In an Appendix, Directions by a very Eminent Physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal Habit of drinking Drams. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: [1754]- Books
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, Brandy, and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors. With an Humble Representation of the Necessity of restraining a Vice so destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People. To which are Added, In an Appendix, directions by a very Eminent Physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal Habit of drinking Drams. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: 1751- Books
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Nicodemus: or, a treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are briefly describ'd. With some remedies against it. By August. Herman. Franck, Professor of Divinity in the University at Hall, and Minister of Glaucha in the Suburbs. Rendered into English from the High Dutch; and Dedicated to the Honourable Society for Reformation of Manners.
Francke, August Hermann, 1663-1727.Date: 1709- Books
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An historical account of the discipline and jurisdiction of the Church of England. Shewing I. The nature of the Christian church, as a Society endowed with Fundamental Rights, to preserve its own Being. II. A defense of our Reformation and the Two distinguishing Principles of it, the Superiority of Bishops, and the Supremacy of Kings. III. The affection of King James I. and King Charles I. to our church and clergy. And the Conduct of Archbishop Bancroft, and Archbishop Laud defended. IV. Of Ecclesiastical Courts. An Attempt to Support the Legal Constitution of them, and to promote the Peace of the Church under the constant Protection of King and Parliament. V. Ecclesiastical Synods, and Parliamentary Convocations; justly Vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Dr. Atterbury late Bishop of Rochester. By White Kennett, D. D. late Bishop of Peterborough.
Kennett, White, 1660-1728.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors. With AN Humble Representation of the Necessity of restraining a Vice so destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People. To which are added, In an Appendix, Directions by a very Eminent Physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal Habit of Drinking Drams. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk Of The Closet To Her Royal Highness The Princess Of Wales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: [1800]- Books
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The lord's-Day to be kept holy, asserted in a familiar conference betwixt two friends, about the unlawfulness of exercising their trades or ordinary callings on that day.
Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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A discourse, delivered November 3, 1790, at the particular request of a number of respectable men in Franklin, who were forming a society, for the reformation of morals. And now published at the desire of the hearers. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: [1790]- Books
The fate of the dead : a study in folk-eschatology in the West Country after the Reformation / Theo Brown.
Brown, Theo, 1914-1993.Date: 1979- Books
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The anniversary sermon, Preached January 7th, 1766. Before the society in Paisley, for reformation of manners. By James Baine, A. M. Minister of the Gospel in Paisley. Published at the Desire of some of the Society.
Baine, James, 1710-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]- Books
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An essay on the [ph]ysical, moral, and political reformation of the Jews; A work crowned by the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences at Metz. By the Abbe Gregoire, a member of that society. Translated from the French.
Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831.Date: [1791]- Books
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The importance of sincerity in public worship to truth, morals, and Christianity. A sermon preached the 25th of February, 1776, before the society at the Octagon chapel, Liverpool, ... By N. Clayton.
Clayton, N.Date: 1776- Books
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A short history of the state of man, with regard to religion and morals; from the beginning of the world to the Reformation. Drawn from scripture, and adapted, in easy, familiar diction, to the capacities of the younger sort; with useful observations: To which are subjoined several Examples of Wickedness punish'd, and Virtue rewarded, as set forth in Holy Writ. The Design of the Whole, being to give Youth such a previous View of Sacred History, and the Principles of the Christian Religion, as may qualify them for hearing Sermons, and reading pious Books to full Advantage; and, at the same Time, to impress on their tender Minds an affecting Sense of God, and the great Mercy of Redemption by Christ. By the Rev. Mr. Wetenhall Wilkes, Minister of Hounslow in Middlesex.
Wilkes, Wetenhall, -1751.Date: M,DCC,XLVI. [1746]- Books
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A proposal for making an effectual provision for the poor, for amending their morals, and for rendering them useful members of the society. By Henry Fielding, Esq; Barrister at Law, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A proposal for making an effectual provision for the poor, for amending their morals, and for rendering them useful members of the society. To which is added, a plan of the buildings proposed, with proper Elevations. Drawn by an Eminent Hand. By Henry Fielding, Esq; Barrister at Law, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]