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Uranoscopia: or, the contemplation of the heavens. Being a demonstration of the equation of time. With the method of observing the solar ingresses into any point of the ecliptic; ... By Charles Leadbetter, ...
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1735
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Two condoms make up the words 'Condomplation', representing a play on the word 'contemplation' and safe sex to prevent AIDS by HEROglyphics. Colour lithograph by Christopher Hayes for Maryland Institute of Design CO-OP, 1991.
Date: [1991]Reference: 668779i
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A contemplation on the insufficiency of reason, and the necessity of divine revelation to enable us to attain eternal happiness. To which is prefixed, the character of an honest free-thinker. By John Ryland A. M. of Northampton.
Ryland, John, 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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A gay man sitting in contemplation at a table with a cup and saucer and tea pot with a message about the scary aspects of sex; advertisement for Auckland's Burnett Centre by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669416i
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A gay man sitting in contemplation at a table with a cup and saucer and tea pot with a message about the scary aspects of sex; advertisement for Auckland's Burnett Centre by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669415i
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The deutero prayer of Moses : with an introduction about the history of this prayer, attributed to the physician Moses Maimonides, connected with a contemplation on the state of the praying and on the genuine prayer in general / 2d ed.
Muntner, Süssmann, 1897-1973.Date: 1946
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The contemplation of nature. Translated from the French of C. Bonnet, of the Imperial Academies of Germany and Russia, The Royal Academies of England, Sweden, and Lyons, The Electoral Academy of Bavaria, Of that of the Institution of Bologna, Correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Societies of Montpellier and Gottingen. In Two Volumes. ...
Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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The spiritual combat. To which is added, the peace of the soul, and the happiness of the heart which dies to itself in order to live to God. Also, twelve advantages arising from the contemplation of death. Done into English by J. T.
Scupoli, Lorenzo, 1530-1610.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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The religious philosopher: or, The right use of the contemplation of the world, for the conviction of atheists and infidels. ... By the learned Dr. Nieuwentyt. Translated from the original in Low Dutch, by John Chamberlayne, Esq; F.R.S. Adorn'd with cuts.
Nieuwentyt, Bernard, 1654-1718.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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Five books of Plotinus, viz. On felicity; On the nature and origin of evil; On Providence; On nature, contemplation, and the one; and on the descent of the soul: translated from the Greek. With an introduction, Containing Additional Information on these Important Subjects. By Thomas Taylor.
Plotinus.Date: 1794
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Whereas it is in contemplation to prepare a new catalogue of the books in the Bodleian Library, the curators request that the different colleges would make out, or suffer to be made out, a catalogue of the books in their several libraries not in the Bodleian, in order to make the same more complete, ...
Bodleian Library.Date: 1794]
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The shepherd's contemplation: or, An essay on ways and means to pay the public debt, and to seat Congress-men on wool-packs. In a letter to George Washington, president of the United States of North-America, and to all the other genuine American patriots. By Pastor Americanus, a patriot, and the poor man's friend.
Pastor Americanus.Date: 1794
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A devout contemplation on the meaning of Divine Providence, in the early death of pious and lovely children. Preached upon the sudden and lamented death of Mrs. Elizabeth Wainwright. Who departed this life, April the 8th. 1714. Having just compleated the fourteenth year of her age. By Benjamin Colman, Pastor to a church in Boston.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1714
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Ouranoskopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens, in a perpetual speculum, or general prognostication for ever : wherein is succinctly demonstrated the names and natures of the signs, planets and aspects, terms of art, order of the spheres, the colours, magnitudes, motions, solid proportions and distances of the seven planets from the earth ... / by Iames Corss.
Corss, James.Date: 1662
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The spiritual combat. To which is added, the peace of the soul, and the happiness of the haert [sic] which dies in itself in order to live to God. Also, twelve advantages arising from the contemplation of death. To this edition is prefixed, meditation and prayers, adapted to the stations of the holy way of the Cross.
Scupoli, Lorenzo, 1530-1610.Date: 1793
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Self-Employment in secret. Left under the hand-writing of the Rev. Mr. Corbet, Late of Chichester.
Corbet, John, 1620-1680.Date: 1800
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Self-Imployment in secret: containing I. An enquiry into the state of his soul. II. Thoughts upon painful Afflictions. III. Memorials for practice. Left under the handwriting of that Learned and Reverend Divine, Mr. John Corbet, Late of Chichester. With a prefatory epistle by the late Reverend Mr. John Howe.
Corbet, John, 1620-1680.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]
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Self-Employment in secret. Left under the hand-writing of the Rev. Mr. Corbet, Late of Chichester.
Corbet, John, 1620-1680.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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Self-Imployment in secret; containing I. Evidences upon self-examination. II. Thoughts upon painful afflictions. III.. Memorials for practice. Left under the hand-writing of that learned and Reverend divine, Mr John Corbert, late of Chichester with a prefatory epistle of M John Howe.
Corbet, John, 1620-1680.Date: [1701?]
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A treatise on the new-discovered dropsy of the membranes of the brain, and watery head of children : proving that it may be frequently cured, if early discovered, with objections to vomits, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on errors in nursing, on the diseases of children, their treatment, &c. proper for the contemplation of parents / by William Rowley.
Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.Date: 1801
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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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Dying thoughts, In three parts. Part I. A memorandum, in order to a serious preparation for dying. Part II. The believer's pleasant prospect through the valley of death. Part III. A contemplation of heaven, or the believer's pisgah-fight of the heavenly canaan. Together with a conclusion, shewing what will make the heaven-born soul to be often groaning and panting for the Glory that is to be revealed. By the Rev. Mr. William Crawford, minister of the Gospel at Wilton.
Crawford, William, 1676-1742.Date: 1793
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A contemplation on the existence and perfections of God, drawn from the several parts of the visible world, the structure of the human body, and the wonderful powers of the soul; as an image of the wisdom, power, and the invisible and immortal nature of God. Designed as a specimen of a body of divinity, executed in the same manner. By John Ryland, A. M. of Northampton.
Ryland, John, 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
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The spiritual guide, which leads, by the inward way, through the vail, to perfect contemplation, and to the rich treasure of internal peace. By Doctor Michael de Molinos. First printed in Italian at Venice, in 1675; and in this present English edition carefully revised with the original; wherein many capital mistakes and deficiencies of a former translation are corrected and supplied. To which is added, a new translation of the author's preface and introduction.
Molinos, Miguel de, 1628-1696.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]