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John the Baptist indicates Jesus as the Messiah to two of his disciples. Engraving by J. Outrim, 1847, after T. Uwins.
Uwins, Thomas, 1782-1857.Date: 1847Reference: 22434i- Books
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The evidence from miracles stated, and vindicated from some late objections: a sermon preached at the visitation of the Rev. Dr. Moss, Archdeacon of Colchester, (now Lord Bishop of St. David's) at St. Peter's Colchester, May 20, 1765. And before the University of Oxford, May 24, 1767. By Nathaniel Forster, M. A. Rector of All-Saints, Colchester, and Tolleshunt-Knight's, Essex, and late Fellow of Baliol-College Oxford.
Forster, Nathaniel, 1726 or 1727-1790.Date: 1767- Pictures
The flight of Francesco Novello di Carrara, Lord of Padua, with his wife Taddea D'Este, from Padua under attack by Milan. Engraving by F. Bacon, 1839, after C.L. Eastlake.
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865.Date: May 1, 1839Reference: 3162375i- Pictures
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While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Feb. 2nd 1797Reference: 28524i- Books
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The true description of a monsterous chylde, borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. LXIIII. the month of October : after this forme with a cluster of longe heare about the nauell, the fathers name is Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater.
Barker, John (Ballad writer)Date: The. viii. daye of Nouember. [1564]- Books
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The true description of a monsterous chylde : borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. LXIIII. the month of October, after this forme with a cluster of longe heare about the nauell, the fathers name is Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of Freswater.
Barker, John (Ballad writer)Date: The .viii. daye of Nouember. [1564]- Pictures
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John baptises Christ; the holy spirit descends. Etching by J. Mynde, c. 1737.
Date: 1737Reference: 22440i- Books
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The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom: St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales: Epitomized. Shewing their Valiant Exploits both by Sea and Land, their Combating with Giants, Monsters, Lions, and Draguns: Their Tilts and Tournaments, in Honour of their Mistresses: Their overcoming Magicians and Necromancers, putting an end to their diresul Enchantment: Their Knighthoods, Chivally, and Magnificent Prowess against the Enemies of Chris, and in Honour of Christendom, in Europe, Asia, and Africa. To which is added, The true manner of their Deaths, and how they came to be Entituled, The Seven Saints of Christendom. Illustrated with variety of pictures Licensed and Entored according to Order.
Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?.Date: [1725?]- Books
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A genuine and impartial account of the remarkable life and vicissitudes of fortune of Charles Ratcliffe, Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8. 1746. for High-Treason, in being in the Rebellion in the Year 1715. With a full Account of the Rebellion in England and Scotland at that Time. Also the Proceedings that were had against his Brother, the late Earl of Derwentwater; Together with both his Speeches; the first that he made at the Bar of the House of Lords, when he received Judgment of Death; and the other that he made on the Scaffold, just before his Execution on Tower-Hill, Feb. 14. 1715-6. And in the Course of the Work, is related both their Behaviours on the Mornings of their Executions, and their last Dying Words on the Scaffold. By Gerard Penrice.
Penrice, Gerard.Date: 1747- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of William, John, and Janet Maccullochs, children lawfully procreated betwixt the deceased John Macculloch in Meikleshalloch, and Jean Kennedy his spouse, also deceased; and of William Macculloch of Chang, and Robert Macculloch baker in Ayr, brothers-german of the said deceased John Macculloch; and of David Kennedy in Alticannoch, John Kennedy in Kilmafadzen, and James Kennedy in Kilhinzie, brothers-german of the deceased Jean Kennedy, ...
Macculloch, William, active 1761.Date: 1756- Books
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A true representation of popery, as it appears in foreign parts: designed as a preservative against its contagion; particularly recommended to British protestants during their residence in popish countries. In Ten Discourses. Being the Substance of several Sermons preached before the British Factory at Oporto in Portugal, On The Doctrine of Merit; Death-Bed Confession; Transubstantiation; Invocation of Saints; Prayers in an unknown Tongue; Invention of New Sacraments; Denying the Cup to the Laity; Superstitious Ceremonies; Popery destructive of the Love of our Country; Pope's Supremacy; Romish Cruelty in their Act of Faith; Infallibility; Purgatory; Artifices and Sophistry of their Priests in making Converts, &c. By Henry Stephens, M. A. Vicar of Malden in Surry, and Chaplain to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St. David's.
Stephens, Henry, 1673-1739.Date: 1728- Pictures
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The four holy women lament over the dead Christ. Line engraving after Annibale Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Reference: 23217i- Pictures
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Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.
Le Jeune, Henry, 1819-1904.Date: 1860Reference: 37891i- Pictures
Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church; Peter kisses his hand. Etching by H. Winstanley, 1728, after A. van Dyck.
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641.Date: 1728Reference: 22616i- Pictures
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A man with the head of a fox (Henry Fox) is pulling the king's sedan chair, and calls for help from George Bubb Dodington, who is drinking in an inn. Etching, 1757.
Date: [1757]Reference: 37216i- Pictures
A courtroom in which a chaplain sits in the middle of a group of councillors, three of whom are linked to a chain pulled by the devil with the head of a bull; below, two defendants receive a subpoena. Etching, 1772.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.Date: [February 1772?]Reference: 581184i- Books
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Hezekiah's charge to the congregation of Judah. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All Saints'-Church, Bristol, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1800, being the anniversary of the nativity of the late Edward Colston, Esq. By Thomas T. Biddulph, A. M. Minister of St. James's, Bristol, and of Bengworth, in Worcestershire; and late of Queen's College, Oxford. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy in thy land. Deut. xv. 11. published at the particular request of the society.
Biddulph, Thomas Tregenna, 1763-1838.Date: [1800]- Books
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[The] members of a society consider'd, in their different characters, of scornful and wise. Or, Their influence, as such, upon the city or community they belong to; set forth in A sermon preach'd in the Royal Chapel at Dublin-Castle, Sunday July the 29, 1711. Before His Grace James Duke of Ormonde, lord lieutenant-general, and general governor of Ireland. By John Dane, D.D. rector fo all saints in Golchester: one of His Grace's domestick chaplians; and chaplain in Ordinary. Publish'd by His Grace's command.
Dane, John, 1651?-1713.Date: MDCCXI. [1711]- Books
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Meditations, representing a glimpse of glory: or, a gospel-discovery of Immanuel's land. Whereunto is subjoined, A Spiritual Hymn, intituled, The dying Saint's Song; and some of his last Letters. By Mr Andrew Welwood, Brother to Mr John Welwood, late minister of the Gospel in Scotland. Col. iii. 4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Isa. lx. 19. - The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20. Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself. 21. Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever. Rev. xxi. 22. - The Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. - For the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Welwood, Andrew.Date: [1756]- Books
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The history of that most eminent statesman, Sir John Perrott, Knight of the Bath, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Containing I. An account of his descent, birth, and behaviour in the courts of King Henry the Eighth, and King Edward the Sixth. II. His travels into France with the Earl of Southampton, his return to England, and promotion by Queen Elizabeth. III. The rebellion of Fitz-Morris suppressed, 1572. IV. The remarkable attainder of James, Vis count [sic] Baltinglas, and his four brothers, 1586. V. The manner of Sir John Perrott's departure from Ireland, 1588. VI. His fatal catastrophe; his last will and testament and his death in the Tower, 1592. Now first published from the original manuscript, written about the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Date: Printed in the year, M.DCC.XX.VIII. [1728]- Pictures
The holy family returns from Egypt, Mary heavy with child. Etching by F. van den Wyngaerde after J. Thomas.
Thomas, Jan, 1617-1678.Reference: 22312i- Books
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Letters and memorials of state, in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation. Written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, Knight of the Garter, ... The famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney, ... Robert, the Second Earl of Leicester, ... Philip Lord Viscount Lisle, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, ... and of his brother Colonel Algernon Sydney, one of the said Council of State, ... Together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence. The whole containing the antient state of Ireland; with characters and private memoirs. Also, the antient Government of the Principality of Wales. The wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands. Negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c. The intrigues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First. With other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, ... Faithfully transcribed from the originals at Penshurst Place in Kent, the seat of the Earls of Leicester, and from his Majesty's Office of Papers and Records for Business of State. Whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations: also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot, Beauchamp, Berkley, and Lisle; and a defence of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, wrote by Sir Philip Sydney. Collected from records, their last wills and testaments, original papers, authentick manuscripts, and our most approved historians. By Arthur Collins, Esq; Author of the Peerage of England.
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Tetradymus. Containing I. Hodegus; or the pillar of cloud and fire, that guided the Israelites in the wilderness, not maraculous, but, as faithfully related in Exodus a thing equally practis'd by other nations and in those places not only useful but necessary. II. Clidophorus; or of the exoteric and esoteric philosophy, that is, of the external and internal doctrine of the antients: the one open and public, accomodated to popular prejudices and the establish'd religions; the other private and secret wherein, to the few capable and discrete, was taught the real truth scripts of all disguises. III. Hypatia; or the history of the most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned, and every way accomplish'd lady; who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria, to gratify the pride, emulation, and cruelty of their Archbishop Cyril, commonly but undeservedly stil'd Saint Cyril. IV. Mangoneutes: being a defense of Nazarenus, address'd to the right reverend John lord Bishop of London; against his lordship's Chaplain Dr. Mangey, his dedicator Mr. Patterson, and (who ought to have been nam'd first) the reverend Dr. Brett, once belonging to hid Lordship's church.
Toland, John, 1670-1722.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Pictures
The flight of Francesco Novello di Carrara, Lord of Padua, with his wife Taddea D'Este, from Padua under attack by Milan. Engraving by F. Bacon after C.L. Eastlake.
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 3162395i- Books
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Louisa Wharton. A story founded on facts: written by herself, in a series of letters to a friend. Wherein is Displayed Some particular Circumstances which happened during the bloody Contest in America. I. Louisa's Father and Mother go to Bath; the Amusements of that Place described, &c. II. Some Account of Captain Truman and his Family; he falls in Love with Louisa; her Brother arrives from Philadelphia, and confirms the War having broke out. III. Captain Truman is ordered with his Regiment to America; Louisa is greatly alarmed, &c. IV. Truman takes Leave of Louisa with the greatest Tenderness; she gives him her Picture in Miniature; he gives her a Ring, and they vow mutual Constancy. V. Louisa's Father goes to London, from thence, with George his Son, sets out for Philadelphia. VI. A Letter from young Truman, full of tender expressions, &c. Vii. A Letter from her Brother, relates the Death of her Father, and the Confiscation of all their Property; they are greatly distressed; and Louisa is slighted by Sir James, &c. Viii. The History of Charlotte Modish, and Lord Squander. IX. Louisa and her Mother in a deplorable situation; she gets some Needle work to do, and is admired for her singing: Lord Squander tries to seduce her, &c. X. Fanny is very kind, but goes into the Country; Louisa hears the dismal News that Truman is taken by the Enemy, and condemned by way of Retaliation, &c. XI. A Letter from Fanny, gives an Account of an Uncle, who is very rich by Accident: he gives them Money, comes to Town, &c. XII. She hears that young Truman is released; he comes to England with her Brother; they all meet at the House of Louisa, and all Parties are made happy by Marriage.
Wharton, Louisa.Date: [1780?]