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The humourist. Being essays upon several subjects; treating of news-writers. Enthusiasm. Spleen. Country entertainment. Love. History of Miss Manage. Ambition and pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts, &c. Weather. Female disguises. Art of modern conversation. Use of speech. Punishment of staying at home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the ten commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. Abuse of words. Credulity. Eating. Love of power. Expedients to get rid of time. Retirement. Story of W. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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Of the torments of Hell: the foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. With Many Infallible Proofs, that there is not to be a Punishment after this Life, for any to endure, that shall never End. To the Glory of God, and Comfort of those in fear of the Torments of hell, and for the furtherance of a Holy Life.
Richardson, Samuel, active 1643-1658.Date: 1720- Books
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The benefit of school-discipline: being an answer to a late pamphlet, entitled, The shameful discipline of the schools exposed; or, whipping an improper punishment for youth. Wherein the arguments are fully answered and confuted: By proving, that no Person ought to be above Punishment, that is not above deserving it. Illustrated and Enforced By Proofs from History; confirmed by the Example of the Ecclesiasticks, and such justified by Scripture. By a lover of decency and order in youth ; and Consulter of Safety in Adult Persons; but an Enemy to Hypocrisy and Deceit, as ensnaring Men into too fatal a Security. In a letter to the author.
Lover of decency and order in youth.Date: [1741]- Books
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Of the torments of Hell: the foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken and removed. With Many Infallible Proofs, that there is not to be a Punishment after this Life, for any to endure, that shall never end. To the Glory of God, and Comfort of those in Fear of the Torments of Hell, and for the Furtherance of a Holy Life.
Richardson, Samuel, active 1643-1658.Date: 1754- Books
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The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. News writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of staying at Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The story of Will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. news-writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of Staying ... Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The Story of Will. Hacket the Enthusiast. With a dedication to the Man in the Moon. By the author of The apology for parson Alberoni; The Dedication to a Great Man concerning Dedications, &c.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: 1720- Books
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The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. news-writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of Staying at Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The story of Will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon. By the author of the Apology for Parson Alberoni; the Dedication to a great man concerning dedications, &c.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: 1720- Books
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Observations on the pernicious consequences of forestalling, regrating, and ingrossing, with a list of the statutes which have been enacted for the punishment of those offences: With A List Of The Statutes Which have been enacted for the Punishment of those Offences: Proposals For New Laws That May Tend To Encourage Tillage, And Yet Keep The Price Of Provisions Of All Kinds Within Reasonable Bounds: thoughts on the impolicy of the consolidation of small farms ; With Remarks On the Coal Trade, Sale of Cattle in Smithfield, Contractors, Carcase and Cutting Butchers, Cheesemongers, Poulterers, &c. &c. &c. abridged: by J.S. Girdler, Esq. From a work which he has just published.
Girdler, J. S.Date: 1800- Books
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Philosophical meditations, with divine inferences. Containing, I. The proof of a necessary, Self-Existent, Independent, and Eternal Being. II. The Nature of Eternity and Infinite Space consider'd. III. The Nature of the Punishment of the Wicked; with the Author's Opinion of the Place of Hell. IV. The Nature of the Creation of our Globe the Earth, and Remarks upon the Deluge, with Divine Inferences from every Particular. V. The Ninth Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans cleared from the rigid and uncharitable Doctrines of absolute Election and Reprobation, and the contrary proved therefrom; with Remarks upon the pernicious Consequences that have attended those Doctrines, as being destructive of the Nature of Religion and Virtue. VI. The Christian Oeconomy the only true one now in the World. Vii. Religion and virtue recommended to every one's Choice. By Benjamin Parker, Author of a late Discourse on the Longitude at Sea.
Parker, Benjamin, -1747.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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A charge of publishing a palpable falsity, exhibited against, and fully proved upon, the authors of the Monthly Review, in a letter to those gentlemen: Wherein is contained a Defence of the Vindication of Divine Justice, in the Infliction of endless Punishment for Sin, in answer to an anonymous pamphlet, intitled, The scripture-account of a future state considered. By John Brine.
Brine, John, 1703-1765.Date: 1755- Books
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Four dissertations. I. On eternal punishments. In which the Design of Punishment in general is placed in a new Light. II. On Christ's cursing the fig-tree. In which this Transaction is reconciled with his human and divine Nature. III. On mistranslations in the New-Testament. Instances of which are comprehended under four important Heads. IV. On Christ's temptation. In which both the Suppositions of Satan's personal and visionary Appearance are refuted, and our Saviour's Temptations are shown to have been in manner such as human nature is liable to in general.
Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783.Date: [1769]- Pictures
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A Chinese man beats a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582347iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man delivers food to a prisoner chained to a metal weight. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582360iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese torturer pushes a sharp instrument into the eardrum of a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582349iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Two Chinese prisoners with their ankles bound to a metal bar, squat on the ground. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582355iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Two Chinese torturers twist the ears of a kneeling man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582357iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man heats up sections of a metal chain over a flame in order to torture a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582333iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man tortures a prisoner bound at the stake. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582345iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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Three Chinese men torture a prisoner by extracting a vein from his lower leg . Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582341iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A man, held by two Chinese torturers, has the soles of his feet beaten with a stick. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582352iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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The execution by sword of a Chinese man. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582365iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A man, bound at the stake, is disemboweled by a Chinese man with a sword. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582350iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Pictures
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A Chinese man interrogates a prisoner who is on his knees, while his ears twisted by a torturer. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582348iPart of: A Chinese methods of torture and punishment- Books
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The case of bankrupts and insolvents consider'd. Wherein it is shewn, I. That the Most Criminal of all Insolvents do not, by the Laws now in Being, meet with any Punishment. II. That their Creditors have no Proper Relief. III. That all other Insolvents are too severely Punished. IV. That the truly Unfortunate are most Inhumanly dealt with. And, V. That the present Method of treating Insolvents in general is inconsistent with the Laws of Nature, and the Maxims of True Polity. Together with the Draught of a Bill for Amending the Law in every one of these Particulars: I. By Distinguishing Insolvents into their Proper and Natural Classes. II. By allotting a Proportional Punishment to each. III. By granting Mercy in a proper Way to the truly Unfortunate. And, IV. By giving Relief to the Creditors of fraudulent Insolvents. Part I.
Date: [1734]- Books
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An epistolary discourse, proving, from the scriptures and the first fathers, that the soul is a principle naturally mortal; But Immortalized Actually by the Pleasure of God, to Punishment; or, to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is Proved, That None have the Power of Giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops. By Henry Dodwell, A.M.
Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.Date: 1706