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Several discourses: viz. Of covetousness. Of Confession. Of Watching and Praying. Of Christian Liberty. On Christ's Nativity. Of Purifying the Temple. On the Resurrection. Of the Possibility of Keeping God's Law. Of Feasting. Of Moderation. Of Superstition. On the martyrdom of King Charles I. All preach'd on particular occasions before the state in the Cathedral of St. Patrick's, and Christ Church, Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William Sheridan, D. D. Lord Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh. (depriv'd.)
Sheridan, William, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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Select discourses: Treating I. Of the True Method of attaining Divine Knowledge. II. Of Superstition. III. Of heism. IV. Of the Immortality of the Soul. V. Of the Existence and Nature of God. VI. Of Legal Righteousness, and the Righteousness of Faith. Vii. Of the Shortness and Vanity of a Pharisaical Righteousness. Viii. Of the Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion. IX. Of the Conflicts and Conquests of a Christian. By John Smith, Late Fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge.
Smith, John, 1618-1652.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Books
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Practical discourses upon the most important subjects; Viz. Of Covetousness Of Confession. Of Watching and Praying. Of Christian Liberty. On Christ's Nativity. Of Purifying the Temple. On the Resurrection. Of the Possibility of Keeping God's Law. Of Feasting. Of Moderation. Of Superstition. On the Martyrdom of King Charles I. All Preach'd on Particular Occasions before the State in the Cathedral of St. Patrick's, and Christ-Church, Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William Sheridan, D.D. Lord Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh. (depriv'd.) In three volumes.
Sheridan, William, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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Bishop Burnet's travels through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, &c. And illustrated with curious observations on the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities, and other curiosities in Art and Nature. With a detection of the frauds and folly of Popery and Superstition in some flagrant instances, also characters of several eminent persons, and many other memorable things worthy the attention of the curious. Written by the Bishop to the Hon. Robert Boyle. To which is added, an appendix, containing remarks on Switzerland and Italy, by a person of quality, and communicated to the Author.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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The new and complete life of our blessed Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ: that great example, as well as saviour of mankind. Containing a More Complete, Authentic, Ample, Accurate, Instructive, Universal, and Full Account (freed from Popish Superstition, and other Errors) than was ever before Published, of all the Real Facts, relating to the Exemplary Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Triumphant Death of Our Glorious Redeemer, Who took upon himself our Sinful Nature, Was Crucified for our Sins, Rose Again for our Justification, Ascended into Heaven, and now Sitteth at the Right-Hand of God, making Intercession for Us; Particularly his Incarnation, Nativity, Genealogy, Baptism, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Early Transactions, Divine Mission, Fasting, Ministry, Temptation, Doctrines, Calling and Appointment of the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Humility, Charity, Patience, Meekness, Sufferings, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacraments; Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension, &c. &c. &c. To which is Added, A New, Complete, and Authentic History of the Lives, Transactions, Sufferings, and Deaths, of his Holy Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, And other Eminent Persons and Primitive Christians, who first Propagated the Christian Religion, and to cruel Persecutors laid down their Lives in the Glorious Cause of Jesus Christ; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. James the Great, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, Timothy, Silas, Mary Magdalene, Mary Sister of Lazarus, Mary of Cleophas, Mary of Salome, Trophimus, Tychicus, Tertius, Linus, Onesiphorus, Stephanus, Phebe, Sosipater, Clement, Ananias, Nicolas, Nicodemus, Joseph, Philemon, Priscilla, Titus, &c. Also, A New, Useful, and Interesting Account of the Life of the Messiah's great Forerunner John the Baptist; And likewise the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Together with A Faithful Account of the Successors of the Apostles, for Three Hundred Years after the Crucifixion, in the five great Apostolical Churches. Comprehending, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences fairly stated upon which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. - Including a Complete Defence of Christianity, containing Plain and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections made against our Holy Religion, by Jews, Turks, Atheists, Deists, Infidels, and Free-Thinkers of the present Age, who are a Disgrace to Human Nature, and strive to level Mankind with the Brute Creation; whereby the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind is proved to be Genuine and truly Divine. The Whole Interspersed with Practical Improvements, and Useful Remarks, Familiarly Adapted to every Capacity, and designed to Promote, in every Christian, the necessary Practice of Faith and Repentance, as the only appointed Means whereby God can be Reconciled with Man. This Complete Work being the Result of long Study and Experience, and not a hasty Performance, has been regularly digested and collected, not only from the Evangelists, Epistles, &c. but also from Josephus, the most judicious Ecclesiastical Historians, and other Books as well as Manuscripts (ancient and modern) of Undoubted Authority. It will therefore comprise a great Variety of the most Important, Valuable, and Curious Matter relating to the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, &c. not to be found in any other Work of the Kind whatever. By Paul Wright, D. D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; And Author of the Christian's New and Complete British Family Bible;-of the New and Complete Edition of Fox's Original Book of Martyrs;-And of The New Edition of the Whole Book of Common Prayer, with Notes, and other necessary Illustrations;-All of which respective Works are universally approved of in every Respect, by the Public in general, who have perused the Numbers already published. Embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind; finely engraved from the original Drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. &c. by those ingenious and celebrated Artists, Messrs. Pollard, Rennoldson, Taylor, Tookey, Smith, Page, Granger, Morris, Royce, Golder, Collier, Parker, and Other Eminent Masters.
Fleetwood, John.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg. from the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I. King of Prussia. By the hand of a master. To which are added, by the same Author, Two Dissertations. The First on Manners, Customs, Industry, and the Progress of the Human Understanding in the Arts and Sciences. The Second on Superstition and Religion. Translated from the Berlin Copy.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg from the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederic I. King of Prussia To which are added Four Dissertations I. On Manners, Customs, Industry, and the Progress of the Human Understanding in the Arts and Sciences. II. On Superstition and Religion. III. On the ancient and modern Government of Brandenburg. IV. On the Reasons for the Enacting and Repealing of Laws. And a Preliminary Discourse. By the present King of Prussia.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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A distinct and compleat view of the Revelation of St. John the Divine. Evidencing in the clearest Manner, among other interesting Particulars, the Rise and Progress of Papal Tyranny, Superstition, and Wickedness, together with the certain, total, and not far distant Destruction, Rome and its whole antichristian System are, by irreversible Decree, doomed to undergo, to the full and universal Establishment of reformed and unsullied Christianity. By Theodore Delafaye, A. M. Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mildred's and Allsaints, in the City of Canterbury.
Delafaye, Theodore, 1703 or 1704-1772.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A serious and friendly call to the dissenters: or, the necessity of living in communion with the establish'd Church of England. Wherein, Its Liturgy is vindicated, and prov'd to be most Primitive, Useful, and Edifying, and Free from all Corruptions of Popery and Superstition which may serve for an answer to a late book, by one Mr. Robinson - entitled, A review of the case of liturgies, &c. Particularly adapted to the Capacities, and for the Use of the Common-People, whether Church-Men or Dissenters. By R. Griffith, A. B. A Divine of the Church of England.
Griffith, Robert, 1681-Date: 1710- Books
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Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, customs, And Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, In Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify'd and prov'd by Monuments now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Faithfully drawn on the Spot, and Engrav'd according to their Scales annex'd. With A Summary Of The Religious, Civil, and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest; Illustrated by the Plans and Elevations of several Ancient Castles, An Eastern View of the Monastery and Site of St. Michael's Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The behaviour of the cl-gy, as well as their traditions, destructive of religion. Or, a succinct history of priestcraft, Throughout all Ages. Containing, A general Introduction of the Institution of all pretended Revelations. - Remarks on Priestcraft amongst the Greeks: The strange Superstition of that learned People, proved to be the Ruin of Athens. - Remarks on Roman Priestcraft, their Augurs, Pontiffs, &c. - An Account of the Bramins, Bonzeés, Talapoins, and other Eastern Priests: with a curious History of the Pharisees and Sadduces among the Jews. - Popish Priestcraft unveil'd, particularly with regard to our own Island. Concluding with The Secret Intrigues of the Gown with all Parties from the Reformation to the Vicars Ap-cy. Dedicated to the Most Worthy Sect of Free-Thinkers.
Date: [1731]- Books
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An alarm to Protestants: or, a Short Method with a papist. Being An Account of a dispute between Mr. Thomas Willis, a Popish Priest, or Emissary, now residing in London, and Mr. John Battersby, a Young Gentleman of One and Twenty Years of age. To which is Prefix'd, A Prefatory Discourse by a Gentleman Educated in the Popish Superstition; Address'd to the Most Reverend, Right Reverend, and Reverend the Clergy of the Church of England, particularly that Part of them who are Ministers of the Parishes of London, and the Adjacent Parts, proving the Danger of Popery, and shewing the Wiles and Means used by the Priests for Perversion of the Protestants, with several Instances of Protestants perverted by them; and that it is now their Indispensible Duty to Preach Vigorously against it.
Battersby, John, 1692 or 1693-Date: 1714- Books
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The behaviour of the cl-gy, as well as their traditions, destructive of religion. Or, a succinct history of priestcraft, Throughout all ages. Containing, A general Introduction of the Institution of all pretended Revelations. - Remarks on Priestcraft amongst the Greeks: The strange Superstition of that learned People, proved to be the Ruin of Athens. - Remarks on Roman Priestcraft, their Augurs, Pontiffs, &c. - An Account of the Bramins, Bonzees, Talapoins, and other Eastern Priests: with a curious History of the Pharisees and Sadduces among the Jews. - Popish Priestcraft unveil'd, particularly with regard to our own Island. Concluding with The Secret Intrigues of the Gown with all Parties from the Reformation to the Vicars Ap---cy. Dedicated to the Most Worthy Sect of Free-Thinkers. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests and Deacons, with true Knowledge and Understanding of thy Word; and that both by their Preaching and Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly. Liturgy of the Ch. of England.
Date: 1731- Books
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A particular and authentic narrative of the life, examination, tortures and execution of Robert Francis Damien, who attempted to kill Lewis XV. King of France, by stabbing him in the right side, as he was stepping into his coach, January the 5th, 1757. Interspersed with Some occasional Reflections on the dreadful Effects of Enthusiasm and Superstition. As published by Authority in Paris. Translated from the French by Thomas Jones, Esq;
Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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The natural history of superstition.
Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
The psychology of superstition / by Gustav Jahoda.
Jahoda, Gustav.Date: 1969- Books
The religion of fools? : superstition past and present / edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight.
Date: 2008- Books
Believing in magic : the psychology of superstition / Stuart A. Vyse.
Vyse, Stuart A.Date: 1997- Books
How do you know it's true? : discovering the difference between science & superstition / Hy Ruchlis.
Ruchlis, Hyman.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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La contagion sacrée, ou histoire naturelle de la superstition. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois. ...
Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789.Date: 1768- Books
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The evil eye : An account of this ancient and widespread superstition / by Frederick Thomas Elworthy.
Elworthy, Frederic Thomas, 1830-1907.Date: 1895- Books
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Psyche's task : a discourse concerning the influence of superstition on the growth of institutions / by J.G. Frazer.
Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.Date: 1909- Books
Witchcraft, sorcery, and superstition / Jules Michelet.
Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874.Date: 1995- Books
Magic and superstition in Europe : a concise history from antiquity to the present / Michael D. Bailey.
Bailey, Michael David, 1971-Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Shifting perceptions : healing and "superstition" in Counter-Reformation Lombardy / Wietse de Boer.
Boer, Wietse de.Date: 1994