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Date: 1989 - 1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/3/16Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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A museum. For young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing. A variety of useful subjects, and in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The antient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. An Account of the Arts and Sciences. VI. Rules for Behaviour. Vii. Advice to young Persons on their entering upon the World; with short Rules of Religion and Morality. Viii. Tables of Weights and Measures. IX. Explanation of Abbreviations used in Words and Dates. X. The seven Wonders of the World. XI. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountain. XII. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1763]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The antient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. An Account of the Arts and Sciences. VI. Rules for Behaviour. Vii. Advice to young Persons on their entering upon the World; with short Rules of Religion and Morality. Viii. Tables of Weights and Measures. IX. Explanation of Abreviations used in Words and Dates. X. The Seven Wonders of the World. XI. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountains. XII. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: 1760- Books
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The wonders of nature and art; being an account of whatever is most curious and remarkable throughout the world; Whether relating to its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Volcano's, Cataracts, Hot and Cold Springs, And other Parts of Natural History; Or to the Buildings, Manufactures, Inventions, and Discoveries of its Inhabitants. The whole collected from the writings of the best historians, travellers, geographers, and philosophers, among which are some Original Manuscripts; interspersed with pious Observations and Reflections; illustrated with Notes, and adorn'd with Copper-Plates. ...
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. Tables of Weights and Measures. VI. The seven Wonders of the World. Vii. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountain. Viii. Dying Words and Behaviour of great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1784]- Books
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Cheap Repository. History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1795?]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. Tables of Weights and Measures. VI. The seven Wonders of the World. Vii. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountain. Viii. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1776]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies: or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects, and, in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great-Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. An Account of the Arts and Sciences. VI. Rules for Behaviour. Vii. Advice to young Persons on their entering upon the World; with short Rules of Religion and Morality. Viii. Tables of Weights and Measures. IX. Explanation of Abbreviations used in Words and Dates. X. The seven Wonders of the World. XI. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountain. XII. Dying Words and Behaviour of Great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1773]- Books
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A museum for young gentlemen and ladies; or, a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing A Variety of useful Subjects; and, in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Description of the several Countries in the World; with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. Tables of Weights and Measures. VI. The seven Wonders of the World. Vii. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountains. Viii. Dying Words and Behaviour of great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life; with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fables, for Amusement and Instruction; illustrated with Cuts.
Date: [1790]- Books
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Cheap Repository. The History of Mary Wood the house-maid; or, the danger of false excuses.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1796]- Books
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The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury, and the once-adjoining monastery: containing, an account of its first establishment, Building, Re-Edifications, Repairs, Endowments, Benefactions, Chapels, Altars, Shrines, Reliques, Chauntries, Obiits, Ornaments, Books, Jewels, Plate, Vestments; before the Dissolution of the Monastery: And the Manner of its Dissolution. A survey of the present church and cloysters, Monuments and Inscriptions; with other Things remarkable: Which, with the several Prospects of the Church, are Engraven by the best Hands. The lives of the Archbishops, Priors, &c. of Christ-Church: With an Account of Learned Men there flourishing in their several Times. An appendix of ancient charters and writings relating to the Church and Monastery. A Catalogue of the Church-Wealth in Prior Estrey's Time. An Ancient Saxon Obituary, and a Large One continu'd Thence downward. By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart.
Dart, John, -1730.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A collection of original papers and material transactions, Concerning the late Great affair of the union between England and Scotland. Also an exact journal of the proceedings of the treaty as well at London as in Edinburgh. Wherein the privileges [sic] of the Presbyterian kirk, and the case of toleration of episcopal dissenters there, are very clearly stated. In five parts. Faithfully collected from the records and registers; by a person concern'd in the said treaty, and present in both kingdoms at the time of its transacting.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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Memoirs: containing the lives of several ladies of Great Britain. A history of antiquities, productions of nature, and monuments of art. Observations on the Christian religion, as porsessed by the established church, and diffenters of every denomination. Remarks on the writings of the greatest English divines: and a review of the works of the writers called infidels, from Lord Herbert of Cherbury, to the Late Lord Viscount Bolincbroke. With a variety of disquisitions and opinions relative to criticism and manners; and many extraordinary actions. In several letters.
Amory, Thomas, 1691?-1788?.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A view of the judgements of God, inflicted on different nations of the world, and on Great Britain in particular, at the present Juncture a sermon, from Isaiah, xxvi. 9. preached in the church of Brechin, on the twenty-seventh day of February 1794 - the day appointed for a National Fast. By the Reverend Mr. John Bisset, Minister of the Gospel at Brechin. Published at the desire of the Hearers.
Bisset, John, 1725-1797.Date: MDCCXCIV. 1794- Books
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Britannia libera. A true narrative of the antiquity, independency, purity, and uniformity of the British churches: Wherein from Unquestionable, Authentick History, and Matter of Fact, these following Heads are clearly Demonstrated: I. That the Christian Faith was Preached and Planted in Great-Britain, in the Days of the Holy Apostles, by St. Paul in Person, and others of our Blessed Saviour's Immediate Disciples and Hearers. II. That the British Churches in the First Six Ages after our Saviour's Passion, continued Distinct and Independent from that of Rome, and ever after vigorously opposed the Tyrannical Usurpations and Anti-Scriptural Innovations of the same. III. That the Ancient Britains preserved the Faith in its Greatest Purity, by the Light of the Holy Scriptures and Apostolick Tradition. IV. That the Doctrine and Discipline of the British Churches was from the Beginning Uniform. That they always held Diocesan Episcopacy, both in Name and Authority, as now Legally Established, and Gloriously Flourishing in England and Ireland. The Original, Progress, and Decay of Episcopacy in Scotland. Original of the Scotch League with France, and Remarks upon the same. A Short View of the most Material Affairs of Church and State, in the Reigns of the several British Princes, during the Two last Centuries. Evident Proof, That the Church of Scotland Reformed from Romish Superstitions by the Assistance of England, and upon the same Bottom with her, both as to Doctrine, Government and Ceremonies. The Characters of the chief Persons concerned in the Scottish Reformation, and their Conformity to the Church of England. Probability of Restoring Episcopacy in North-Britain. By Ninian Wallis, M. A. Author Britannia Concors.
Wallis, Ninian.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches. Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: Containing The Original and first Establishment of all the Religious Orders that ever were in Great-Britain; being those of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Cistercians, Regular Canons of St. Augustin, Carthusians, Gilbertins, Trinitarians, Premonstratenses, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum: As also of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinian Friers, Regular Canons of Arroasia, Brigittins, Monks of Fontevrand, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, Friers of Penance, or of the Sack, and Bethleemites, not spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The foundations of their several Monasteries. A very large Collection of many hundreds of Grants and Charters belonging to them, besides several thousands abridg'd. The final Suppression of all those Places, with some Account of the manner how their vast Lands and Possessions were dispos'd of. There are added Catalocues of the Abbats, and other Superiors of those religious Houses, and of all Persons eminent, and distinguish'd for Piety, Learning, and other Accomplishments, in the several Orders; with short Lives of as many of them as have been transmitted down to us. Collected from above Two hundred of the best Historians extant, and from antient Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and many more in the Hands of learned Antiquaries, and other curious Gentlemen, whose Names may be seen in the Preface. Adorn'd with a considerable Number of Copper-Plates of the several Habits of the religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of sacred Places destroy'd, or gone to Decay, and Prospects of others that are still standing. By John Stevens, Gent. ...
Stevens, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Pictures
Trinity Church, North Malvern: exterior. Tinted lithograph.
Date: [1851?]Reference: 44288iPart of: Views of Malvern- E-journals
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Date: 1872-- Books
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Origines Britannicæ; or, the antiquities of the British churches. With a preface concerning some pretended antiquities relating to Britain: In Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Stillingfleet, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Worcester. The third volume.
Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- E-journals
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Camden fourth series
Date: 1964-1992- E-journals
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Camden fifth series
Date: 1993-- Books
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Debates and speeches in both Houses of Parliament concerning the Schism-Bill: with the Lords protest against it. As also the whole act at large.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: [1715]- Books
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An earnest and serious address to the freeholders and electors of Great-Britain, On Occasion of The Clamor raised against the bill to permit Persons to apply for Naturalization, professing the Jewish Religion. Wherein That Act of the Legislature is considered in a Religious View, and defended upon Christian Principles. By an Orthodox Member of the Church of England, and a Freeholder.
Orthodox member of the Church of England.Date: [1753]- Books
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An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain, chiefly of England: ... to the end of the reign of King Charles the Second. With a brief account of the affairs of religion in Ireland. ... By Jeremy Collier, ...
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1708-14- Books
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The history of England, as it relates to religion and the church, from the earliest accounts to the present century. ... By Ferdo. Warner, ...
Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768.Date: 1759