83 results filtered with: Youth - Conduct of life - Early works to 1800
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The parental monitor. In two volumes. By Mrs. Bonhote, ...
Bonhote, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1744-1818.Date: 1788- Books
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Original stories, from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.Date: N.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The parent's and guardian's directory, and the youth's guide, in the choice of a profession or trade. Containing I. An Essay on the Education of the Tradesman and Mechanic. II. The Qualifications necessary for those designed for the Three Learned Professions. III. An Account of the several Trades and Mechanic Arts, digested in alphabetical Order: In which the Businesses omitted by other Authors are here inserted; the Qualifications necessary for each Trade are explained; the Sums given with Apprentices; the Wages of Journeymen; and the Sums required to set up Masters, are exhibited. IV. Advice to an Apprentice on his Behaviour while subject to his Master. By Joseph Collyer, Esq;
Collyer, Joseph, -1776.Date: 1761- Books
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The Parent's pious gift: or, A present for children. Set forth in a dialogue between a religious father and an extravagant son. Containing, dispute against bad company, pride, drunkenness, rioous [sic] living, and all the vanities of a vicious course of life, for which the young man strongly contended; till by the grace of God, and the eudeavours [sic] of his religious father, he was saved from death and destruction, and brought to the hope of life and immortality. Concluding with the young man's Christian courage, and conquest over the tempter, who came to disturb him in his private closet when in tears and repenting. Being excellent pattern to set before all young persons in our present sinful times.
Date: [between ca. 1755 and 1777?]- Books
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Little master's miscellany. Consisting of divine and moral essays in prose and verse. Adapted to the capacities, and designed for the improvement of the youth of both sexes, in the principles of virtue and morality. Containing dialogues on the following subjects, viz. On decency and good manners. On the same. On good œconomy. On justice and humanity, On charity and benevolence. On pride and insolence. On vanity and folly on religion. To which are added, moral songs and fables. Part the second, by the author of the first[.]
Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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The parental monitor. In four volumes. By Mrs. Bonhote, author of Bungay Castle, &c. &c. In continuation. Vol. III.
Bonhote, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1744-1818.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The polite student.
Date: [1748]- Books
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Instructions for youth. Written by the Lady Halket, for the use of those young noblemen and gentlemen, whose education was committed to her care.
Halkett, Anne, Lady, 1622-1699.Date: M.DCC.I. [1701]- Books
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The beauties of history; or, pictures of virtue and vice, drawn from real life; designed as an introduction to the art of thinking and reflection. Wherein the Entertainment as Well as Instruction of the Reader is Particularly Consulted. In two volumes. ... . A new edition, enlarged and carefully corrected. To which is prefixed, an introductory tract on education, Respecting Young Ladies as Well as Gentlemen. By Samuel Whyte, Principal of the English Grammar School.
Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Plan of the Preparatory Seminary for young gentlemen at Little Chelsea.
Preparatory Seminary at Little Chelsea.Date: 1780?]- Books
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Dialogues raisonnés D'Hortence & de Julie, sur les principes fondamentaux de la sagesse, ou philosophie morale, & autres sujets Egalement Propres a Former Le Coeur & L'Esprit. A L'Usage des Jeunes Demoiselles. Dédiés (par Permission) à Lady Charlotte Finch, Par Mademoiselle Cacouault de la Mimardiere, Auteur de La Mythologie des Jeunes Demoiselles, & de L'Encyclopedie des Dames.
Cacaoult de la Mimardière, Élisabeth.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Cum reip. nostræ nonnullis interesse videatur, publicum quotannis totius juventutis academicæ examen institui; ...
University of Cambridge.Date: 1774]- Books
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The parental monitor In two volumes. By Mrs. Bonhote, author of Olivia, etc. etc. ...
Bonhote, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1744-1818.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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War with the devil: or the young man's conflict with the powers of darkness. In a dialogue. Discovering the corruption and vanity of youth ; the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen Man: also a definition, power, and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor. Worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. The twenty-second edition. By B. Keach, author of Sion in distress; or the groans of the Protestant Church. Licensed and entered according to order.
Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.Date: 1776- Books
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The pleasantness of a religious life, open'd and prov'd; and recommended to the consideration of all; particularly of young people. By Matthew Henry, Minister of the Gospel.
Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.Date: 1714- Books
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A terrible and seasonable warning to young men; being a very particular and true relation of one Abraham Joiner, ...
Date: [1710?]- Books
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Original stories, from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An essay. Occasion'd by the Revd. Mr. Madden's scheme for promoting learning in the college by præmiums.
Date: 1731- Books
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The blind child, or Anecdotes of the Wyndham family. Written for the use of young people, by a Lady.
Pinchard, Elizabeth Sibthorpe.Date: 1798- Books
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore. Author of the Practical navigator, and Seaman's ne daily assistant.
Date: 1797- Books
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Sober-Mindedness press'd upon young people in a discourse on Titus II. 6. By the late Reverend Matthew Henry, Minister of the Gospel.
Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.Date: 1735- Books
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Instructions for the young Christian: or, an exposition of the church catechism. By way of Question and Answer. Confirmed by Scripture Proofs, and adapted to the meanest Capacity. By a minister of the Church of England. = Addysg i'r cristion jeuangc: neu, eglurhâd ar gatecism yr eglwys. Mewn ffordd o Holiad ac Atteb. Wedi ei brofi allan o'r Ysgrythur Lan, a'i gymhwyso i'r gwaelaf ei Ddyall. Gan weinidog o eglwys loegr.
Minister of the Church of England.Date: 1750- Books
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Old heads on young shoulders: or, youth's pleasing guide to knowledge, wisdom, and riches. In a series of engaging, instructive and entertaining histories, drawn from real life; and related in such a manner as to amuse the young readers, and convey useful knowledge in the most delightful manner. Designed to guard youth against the snares that are generally laid for them at their first setting out in the world by the artful and wicked of both sexes; and shewing the dangerous effects of giving a loose to the passions. The whole intended to display the amiableness of virtue and the deformity of vice, in the most striking colours.
Date: M DCC LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Miscellanies, or, Sundry discourses concerning trade, Conversation, and Religion: Being the Advice of a Father, to his Children, on those Subjects. Also, Religion and Reason United.
Coole, Benjamin, -1717.Date: [1712]- Books
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Les veillées du château, ou cours de morale a l'usage des enfans, par l'auteur D'Adele et Theodore. Tome III.
Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]