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Nocturnal revels: or, a general history of dreams. In two parts. Shewing I. the Nature, Causes, and various Kinds of Dreams and Visions: And of the Nocturnal Communications of the Soul with Good and Evil Angels. With several Examples of Dreams, both Divine and Humane, Ancient and Modern, that have been Remarkably Accomplish'd. II. Shewing the Signification of all manner of Dreams whatsoever, according to Aristotle, Themistius, Artimedorus, Cardan, and other most Approved Authors. Comprising all that has been hitherto written upon this Nice and Curious Subject. Alphabetically Digested, for the more easie finding out of any Dream.
Date: 1706- [1707]- Books
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The interpretation of dreams: by the most celebrated philosopher Artimedorus, and other authors. First written in Greek, and afterwards translated into divers foreign Languages, and now made English. A Treatise of great Value and Esteem, and very delightful and useful for all Sorts of People. The Twenty-Third Edition, with many Additions, the Author's Life, and the Opinion of divers English Authors, concerning the Certainty of Dreams, and their Events.
Artemidorus, Daldianus.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Thoughts on dreaming. Wherein the notion of the sensory, and the opinion that it is shut up from the inspection of the soul in sleep, and that Spirits supply us with all our Dreams, are examined by Revelation and Reason. Occasioned by An essay on the phoenomenon of dreaming, in a book, entitled, An enquiry into the nature of the human soul; wherein the Immateriality of the Soul is evinced from the Principles of Reason and Philosophy. By Tho. Branch.
Branch, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A new academy of complements: or, the lover's secretary. Being wit and mirth improv'd, by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship, In divers Examples of Writing or Inditing Letters, relating either to Love or Business. Also, The Silent Language: Or, A Compleat Rule for discoursing by Motion of the Hands, without being understood by the Company. Together with Instructions for writing Figure-Hand, Bills of Exchange, Receipts, casting Accompts, &c. The Signification of Moles, and Interpretation of Dreams. A never-failing Method for Women to get good Husbands. Likewise, A pleasant Dialogue between Six Merry-Gossips, paying a Visit to a Lying-in-Woman. To which is added, a choice collection of above a hundred favourite love-songs, Merry Catches, and Jovial Healths; being the newest now Extant. With plain Instructions for Dancing.
Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Books
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A new academy of complements: or the lover's secretary: being wit and mirth improv'd by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship. In divers examples of writing or Inditing letters, relating either to love or business. Also the silent language: Or, A Compleat Rule for discoursing by Motion of the Hand, without being understood by the Company. Together with Instructions for writing Figure-Hand, Bills of Exchange, Receipts, casting Accompts, &c. The Signification of Moles, and Interpretation of Dreams. A never-failing Method for Women to get good Husbands. Likewise a pleasant dialogue between six merry Gossips paying a Visit to a Lying-in-Woman. To which is added, a choice collection of above 120 love-songs, Merry-Catches, and Jovial Healths; being the Newest new Extant, with plain Instructions for dancing.
Date: 1741- Books
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Essays upon the following subjects. Viz.1. Of generosity. 2. Of the New Man. 3. Of the Government of the Eye. 4. De Ratione Fidei, &c. 5. Of the Soul of Man. 6. Of Freedom or Liberty of Body and Mind. 7. Of the Passions and Affections. 8. Of Human Perfection. 9. Of the Origin of Sin, &c. 10. Of Gratitude. 11. Of the Blessed Trinity, and somewhat of the Mode. 12. Of Eternal Damnation for Temporal Sin; the Justice, and even Mercy of God therein, vindicated. 13. Of Dreams. 14. Of the Government of our Thoughts. 15. Of Happiness. 16. Of Sinful Ideas. 17. Of Families, and leaving a great Estate to Children. 18. A Letter to Sir R. Southwell, when President of the Royal Society, touching the Equivocal Generation of Plants and Insects; wherein the Creation of the World is particularly lookt into. 19. Of Reading the Holy Scriptures, &c. 20. Of persons running in debt, and dying without Payment. By Whitelock Bulstrode, Esq;
Bulstrode, Whitelocke, 1650-1724.Date: 1724- Books
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(just published,) Wonderful relations; being a serious inquiry concerning the nature, subsistence, and operations of the soul, or spirit of man, immediately after the death of the body: Proving from Scripture, &c. That the Soul is an immaterial Substance; subsisting, and intelligent in a Separate State, after Death, either in happiness or misery: and that it hath a power and fitness to come again and revisit its friends, on particular occasions, if God permit. Fully confirmed in this Edition, By twelve wonderful, yet well attested Relations of Apparitions, Dreams, &c. By which some hidden things have been discovered, sudden Death forewarned of, and some prevented, &c. Extracted from the Works Of the learned Mr. Flavel, Dr. Moore, Mr. Baxter, and others. By J. W. author of the Evening conference between Christ and Nicodemus.
Wakelin, J.Date: 1784- Books
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Revelation examined with candour. Or, a fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, To be given to Mankind from the Creation, as they are found in the Bible. By a professed friend to an honest freedom of thought in religious enquiries. Vol. III. Containing Dissertations on the following Subjects, viz. I. That the World was blessed with divine Revelations from the Beginning. II. On the natural Advantages of the Sabbath, and one ill-judged Abuse of it. III. Of the Blessings derived to the World through Abraham. IV. Of God's Blessing to Abraham continued to his Son Isaac. V. The same Blessings continued to Jacob. VI. Of the Principles by which God governeth the animal World. Vii. Of the History and Character of Joseph. Viii. Of many magnificent Edgytian Buildings. IX. Of the Lake Moeris, and Joseph's Canal. X. Joseph's Favour to the idolatrous Priesthood objected to him, &c. XI. Of Inspiration by Dreams. XII. Answer to the Charge brought against Joseph, for enslaving the Egyptians.
Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 1686-1768.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A new academy of compliments: or the compleat English secretary. Containing the true art of indicting letters, suitable to the capacity of youth and age. Relating to familiar Conversation between Friends and Acquaintance, Husband and Wife, Children and Parents, Masters and Apprentices, Brothers and Sisters, and Kindred in general; also, Love-Letters on all Occasions; with others relating to Trade and Business of all Natures, being suited in an apt, easy, and plain Stile. Likewise Instructions for Directing, Superscribing, and Subscribing of Letters; also the Tides of Persons of Quality, and all other Degrees. With Dialogues very witty and pleasant, relating to Love, Familiar Discourse, and other Matters, for the improving the Elegancy of the English Speech, and Accomplishment in Discourse. To which is added, I. The art of good breeding and behaviour, with Instructions for Carving Fish, Flesh and Fowl, after the newest Manner. 2. The English Fortune-Teller, as to what relates to good and bad Fortune in Maids, Widows, Widowers and Batchelors. 3. Joyful Tydings to the Female Sex. 4. A Treatise of Moles, 5. The Interpretation of Dreams. 6. The Comical Humours of the joyial London Gossips, in a Dialogue between a Maid, a Wife, and a Widow, over a Cup of the Creature. With a collection of the newest play-house songs.
Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678.Date: 1748- Books
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Aristotle's new book of problems, set forth by way of question and answer. To which are added, a great number from other famous philosophers, astrologers, astronomers, and physicians. Shewing the secrets of nature and art: together with the interpretation of dreams, signification of moles in any part, the nature of ghosts, the reason of eclipses of the sun and moon; also, wonders in the creation, as earthquakes, ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c.
Date: 1741- Books
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Aristotle's new book of problems, set forth by way of question and answer. To which are added, a great number from other famous philosophers, astrologers, astronomers, and physicians. Shewing the secrets of nature and art: together with the interpretation of dreams, Signification of Moles in any Part, the Nature of Ghosts, the Reason of Eclipses of the Sun and Moon; also, Wonders in the Creation, as Earthquakes, Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, &c.
Date: 1725- Pictures
Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh. Etching by S. Watts, 1766, after Rembrandt.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1766Reference: 2819102i- Pictures
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Jacob dreams of the heavenly ladder; he consecrates with oil the spot where he slept; he meets Rachel, who is tending sheep in the vicinity of a Mesopotamian city. Woodcut by S.H., 1568, after V. Solis.
Solis, Virgil, 1514-1562.Date: [1568]Reference: 15893i- Pictures
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Joseph tells his unsympathetic family about his two prophetic dreams. Line engraving by G. de Jode.
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An hue and cry after conscience: or The pilgims progress by candle-light in search after honesty and plain-dealing. Represented under the similitude of a dream. Wherein is discovered the pritty [sic] manner of his setting out. His pleasant humours on his journey. The disappointment he met with after all his search. Together with his flight at last into another country, where he is still on his rambles. Written by John Dunton, author of The pilgims guide, from the cradle to his death-bed[.]
Dunton, John, 1627 or 1628-1676.Date: 1720- Books
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A short relation, concerning a dream, which the author had on the eighteenth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine. With some remarks on the late comet. Together with a short exhortation to all into whose hands my dream shall fall.
Clarke, Samuel, 1721-Date: 1774- Pictures
Jacob finds rest in a rugged landscape: an angel appears to him in a dream. Etching by A.H. Payne after F. Bol.
Bol, Ferdinand, 1616-1680.Reference: 2819197i- Books
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Prophets male and female : gender and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the ancient Near East / edited by Jonathan Stökl and Corrine L. Carvalho.
Date: [2013], ©2013- Pictures
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The angel speaks to Joseph in a dream. Engraving by A.A. Morel after J.B. Wicar after A.R. Mengs.
Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728-1779.Reference: 21790i- Books
A true relation of Mr. Justice Cook's passage by sea from Wexford to Kinsaile, and of the great storm, and eminent danger that he with others were in with the wonderful appearance of the power & goodness of God in their deliverance, according as it was revealed to him in a dream. As also M. Deedate [sic] with other ministers (in Genevah) opinion concerning dreams. Occasioned by a remarkeable profettick dream of a Protestant marques daughter in Poland / all faithfully communicated, as received from his own hand in the year 1650.
Cook, John, -1660.Date: [1652?]- Pictures
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Saul consults Samuel after the witch of Endor has conjured him from the dead; demons crowd the background. Engraving by A. Laurent, 17--, after S. Rosa.
Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 40543i- Books
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A dream: or, The force of fancy. A poem, containing characters of the company now at the Bath. With a key incsrted [sic].
Date: 1710- Books
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Tully's two essays of old-age, and of friendship. With his stoical paradoxes, and Scipio's dream. Done into English by Mr. Parker.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Date: 1736- Books
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The advantages and disadvantages of the marriage-state, as entered into with religious or irreligious persons; represented under the similitude of a dream.
Johnson, John, 1706-1791.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Pictures
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The three kings are ordered in a dream not to return to the land of Herod. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 15--, after G. van Groeningen.
Groeningen, Gerard van, active 1561-1575.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 21787i