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The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being Directions, How Women of all Qualities and Conditions, ought to Behave themselves in the various Circumstances of this Life, for their Obtaining not only Present, but Future Happiness. I. Directions how to Obtain the Divine and Moral Vertues of Piety, Meekness. Modesty, Chastity, Humility, Compassion, Temperance and Affability, with their Advantages, and how to avoid the opposite Vices. II. The Duty of Virgins, Directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoid, for gaining all the Accomplishments required in that State. With the Whole Art of Love, &c. 3. The Whole Duty of a Wife. 4. The Whole Duty of Widow &c. Also Choice Receipts in Physick, and Chirurgery. With the Whole Art of Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.
Lady, active 1701.Date: 1701- Books
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Authentick memoirs of the life and infamous actions of Cardinal Wolsey. To a certain Gentleman, who takes the Character of Cardinal Wolsey to Himself. An Epigram. How vain, Sir Knight, is thy affected Rage, That Thou and Wolsey, in the self-same Page, Stand charg'd Alike?-The Cardinal, 'tis true, Had many publick Vices; - so hast Thou: But He had Virtues, as his Foes agree; Which, thy Friends own, are wanting all in Thee; Tho' proud, corrupt, ambitious, and severe, Still to the Muse He lent a gracious Ear; Learned Himself, to Learning was a Friend; Himself, adorn'd with Arts, did Arts defend; Whilst all Thy Knowledge is confin'd to Gain; To Funds, and Stocks, and Bribes, thy (country's Bane; His publick Spirit lives in Christ-Church Dome; Thy Charity begins, and ends at Home. Craftsman, March 16, 1728-9.
Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XXXI. [1731]- Books
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Admonitions against swearing, sabbath-breaking, and drunkenness, designed for the benefit of such, as are guilty of one, or more of these vices. By James Stonhouse, M.D. Rector of Great and Little Cheverel, Wiltshire.
Stonhouse, James, Sir, 1716-1795.Date: 1792- Books
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The language of comets, or blazing stars. A lively call to repentance for National Sins. Or, A Theological and Historical Essay, occasioned by a Blazing Comet hanging over Great Britain and Ireland, viz. in the Months of January, February, and Part of March 1743-4. Wherein Their Several Kinds are set forth, as well as their Appearances in divers Ages and Countries; with what may soberly and fairly be deduced therefrom, touching God's holy Ends in sending them, consistently with Reason, Experience, and the standing Maxims of God's Government of the World, as attested by his Written Word and confirm'd by Oath. With A just Rebuke to the Reigning Vices of the Age, or National Impieties; not without some prudential Methods formerly successful for reforming the same. Design'd to allay all popular and unreasonable Fears, and to Chear and Erect the Hearts of the British Nation, with Considerations of a solid and substantial Nature. By a presbyter of the Church of England.
Philalethes, Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: 1745- Pictures
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Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
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Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.
Walker, George, 1781-1856.Date: June 1. 1814Reference: 30951i- Books
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An agreeable criticism, of the city of Paris and the French; giving an account of their present state and condition: their Virtues and Vices. Their Academies. Their Dress, Devotion, Levity. Their Women. Their Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions. Their Theatres. Their Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers. Their Lawyers, Pick-Pockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of things. Their Horses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection. Their Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affectation, Labour. Taverns. Climate. Trades-People. Fruit. House-Rent. Taylors. Brokers. Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, &c. Political Calculations of the number of Houses, Consumption of Food. &c. Being a translation of an Italian letter, written lately from Paris, by a Sicilian, to a friend of his at Amsterdam. With further remarks upon the French, their Preachers, Authors, &c. By a French gentleman.
French gentleman.Date: [1704]- Books
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The works of the author of Whipping-Tom, wherein are contain'd all his treatises both serious and merry. His rod for a proud lady; In Two parts: Which touches the fair Sex to the quick, for taking Snuff, drinking Tea, wearing red Cloaks, and Hoop-Petticoats, and using Toilets; with Recipe's for curing the Womens Evil, and inoculating Youth and Beauty upon old disfigur'd Beaux and Ladies. II. Democritus, the laughing philosopher's trip into England; or seven Days Amusements, intermixt with uncommon Reflections on the Follies and Vices of both Sexes of all Religions, in London and Westminster. III. An essay in praises of knavery. IV. A general key to the writings of the poets of the Last Age. Wherein their Beauties and Excellencies, are display'd, and their Follies and Blunders, expos'd in the Rehearsal. The whole adorn'd with variety of new cuts. With an alphabetical key and index of persons, places, and other remarkable things in town.
Date: [1723]- Books
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The third volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown, containing, Amusements serious & comical, calculated for the meridian of London. To which is added, ten letters, on several subjects, Together with His Pocket-Book of Common Places. His Walk round London and Westminster, pleasantly exposing the Vices and Follies of several parts of the Town. Letters translated from Aeneas Sylvius, Poet-Laureat to the Emperor, who was after that created Pope, (pius II.) with his Satyr on Women of the Town. A Declamation in Defence of Gaming, &c. against Drunkenness. The Dispensary; or, The Quacks: a Farce, wrote in the Year 1697. His Diverting Letters, Billet-Deux, both Originals and Translations, to Gentlemen and Ladies. His Voyage on the Thames; or, the Water-Dialect. Poems, Translations, Lampoons, and Satyrs on several Occasions, in Latin and English. A Continuation of the Quaker's Sermon. His London and Lacedemonian Oracles, resolving many Nice and Curious Questions.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1708- Books
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Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs: Or, Remarks on a book intituled, The fable of the bees; or, Private vices publick benefits. By Mr. Dennis.
Dennis, John, 1657-1734.Date: 1724- Books
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Admonitions against swearing, sabbath-breaking and drunkenness; with abstracts of the penal laws now in force against those vices.
Stonhouse, James, Sir, 1716-1795.Date: [1790?]- Pictures
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A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [1771]Reference: 36197i- Books
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Psychomachia; the war of the soul: or, the battle of the virtues, and vices. Translated from Aur. Prudentius Clemens.
Prudentius, 348-Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Du baiement et de tous les autres vices de la parole : trait par de nouvelles mhodes ... / par Colombat de l'Ise.
Colombat de l'Ise, 1797-1851.Date: 1831- Books
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Des vices de conformation de l'utérus et du vagin et des moyens d'y remédier / par Leon Le Fort.
Le Fort, Léon (Léon Clément), 1829-1893.Date: 1863- Books
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Moral reflections and pleasant remarks on the vertues, vices, and humours of mankind with a poem on the power of musick. Never before printed. By a Gentleman of St. peter's College in Cambridge.
Gentleman of St. Peter's College in Cambridge.Date: 1707- Books
Considérations sur les influences que peuvent avoir, dans la pratique chirurgicale, les vices scrophuleux, scorbutique et cancéreux / [Clément Jacques Goupil].
Goupil, Clément Jacques, active 1811.Date: 1811- Books
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The real antichrist: an essay fully proving, that the vices of the laity proceed from the corruptions of the clergy.
Date: 1716- Books
Private vices, public virtues : bawdry in London from Elizabethan times to the Regency / E.J. Burford and Joy Wotton.
Burford, E. J.Date: 1995- Books
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An Explanation of the vices of the age: Shewing, the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of petty-lawyers, the cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the-intrigues of lewd women.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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L'orthophonie, ou physiologie et thérapeutique du bégaiement et de tous les vices de la prononciation / Par Colombat de l'Isère.
Colombat de l'Isère, 1797-1851.Date: [1833]- Books
La pathologie du pouvoir : vices, crimes et délits des gouvernants : antiquité, Moyen Âge, époque moderne / sous la direction de Patrick Gilli.
Date: [2016]- Books
Quaestio medica ... M. Joanne Francisco Paris, M. Antonii-Nicolai Guenault, vices gerente ... praeside. An ad sanitatem equitatio? / [Guillaume Fumée].
Fumée, Guillaume.Date: [1757]- Books
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An Explanation of the vices of the age. Wherein are explained the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of pettifogging lawyers, the cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the intrigues of lewd women.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXXV [1785]- Books
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Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, 1100-1500 A.D : including a section of incipits of works on the Pater noster / Morton W. Bloomfield [and others].
Date: 1979