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A comprehensive view of Sunday schools, for the use of the more indigent inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages, through England and Wales, with reflections on the causes of the decay of our morals and national piety, and the means of removing them: also a copious schoo book, for the use of Sunday scholars, ... By Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1786- Books
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Earnest advice, particularly to persons who live in an habitual Neglect of Our Lord's Supper, considered as a commemorative Sacrifice inseparable from Christianity, and as A Preservative against superstitious Fears, and the immoral Practices, which deface the Glory of our Country, and darken our Prospects of a Life to come. In forty-nine letters. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: [1778]- Books
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An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author's Journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia; and back through Russia, Germany, and Holland. To which are added, The revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. Illustrated with maps and copper-plates. By Jonas Hanway, Esq; The third edition; revised and corrected. In two volumes.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The defects of police the cause of immorality, and the continual robberies committed, particularly in and about the metropolis: with various proposals for preventing hanging and transportation: llikewise [sic] for the establishment of several plans of police on a permanent basis, ... Observations on the Rev. Mr. Hetherington's charity; ... In twenty-nine letters to a member of parliament. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1775- Books
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The citizen's monitor: shewing the necessity of a salutary police, executed by resolute and judicious magistrates, Assisted by the pious labours of zealous Clergymen, For the Preservation of the Lives and Properties of the People, And the happy Existence of the State. With observations on the late tumults, the merits of the soldiery, and the London Volunteer Police Guard. In twenty-nine letters. By Jonas Hanway, Esquire.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXX [1780]- Books
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An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author's journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia; and back through Russia, Germany and Holland, to which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. Illustrated with maps and copper-plates. By Jonas Hanway, merchant. The third edition, revised and corrected. In two volumes.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M DCC LXI. [1761]- Books
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Letter V. to Robert Dingley, Esq; Being a proposal for the relief and employment of friendless girls and repenting prostitutes. By Mr. Hanway.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Solitude in imprisonment, with proper profitable labour and a space diet, The most humane and effectual means of bringing malefactors, who have forfeited their lives, or are subject to transportation, to a right sense of their condition; with proposals for salutary prevention: and how to qualify offenders and criminals for happiness in both worlds, and preserve the people, in the enjoyment of the genuine fruits of liberty, and freedom from violence. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Letters to the guardians of the infant poor to be appointed by the act of last session of Parliament; Also to the governors and overseers of the Parish poor, recommending concord, frugality, cleanliness, and industry, with such a pious, humane, resolute, and judicious conduct in the execution of their office, as may effectually answer the good purposes for which they are chosen, and more particularly in the preservation of infants. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with the author's journal of travels from England through Russia into Persia; and back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. Illustrated with Maps and Copper-Plates. The second edition, revised and corrected. In Two Volumes. ... . By Jonas Hanway, Merchant.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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A letter to Mr. John Spranger, on his excellent proposal for paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets of Westminster, and the parishes in Middlesex. By Mr. J. Hanway.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1754- Books
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Domestic happiness, promoted; in a series of discourses from a father to his daughter, on occasion of her going into service; Calculated to render Servants in general virtuous and happy: with various characters, anecdotes, fables, and reflections, suited to Masters and Mistresses of families. Being for the most part adapted also to the Use of Sunday-Schools, as Lectures to the Scholars, particularly Such as are going into Service; Abridged from Virtue in humble life, written by Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Thoughts on the importance of the sabbath, with a caution not to trespass on the design of it: also on the use and advantages of music, as an amusement to the polite part of mankind. Likewise on the Abuse of Music in Churches as practised by many Organists. With several religious, moral, and political reflections on modern inattention to the true art of living, with regard to some of our most fashionable amusements. In nine letters. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Essays and meditations on life and practical religion, with a collection of proverbs, containing Instructions and Admonitions for promoting true subjection to laws divine and human. By J. Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: [1762]- Books
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Virtue in humble life: containing reflections on the reciprocal duties of the wealthy and indigent, the master and the servant: thoughts on the various situations, passions, prejudices, and virtues of mankind, drawn from the real characters: fables applicable to the subjects: anecdotes of the living and the dead: the result of long experience and observation. in a dialogue between a father and his daughter, in rural scenes. A manual of devotion, comprehending extracts from eminent poets. In two volumes. Vol. I. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The seaman's faithful companion; Being religious and prudential advice to sea officers, masters in the merchants service, their apprentices, and seamen in general; also prayers suited to their various occasions: with an historical account of the glorious victories obtained by His Majesty's arms in the late war; and a list of the enemies ships taken. To which is added, The Archbishop of Tuam's essay toward making the knowledge of religion easy; and an abstract of his plain account of the Sacrament. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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An answer, to the appendix of a pamphlet, entitled Reflexions upon naturalization, corporations and companies, &c. Relating to the Levant trade and Turkey Company, as this subject is occasionally mentioned in Hanway's travels. By the author of those travels.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Prudential instruction to the poor boys, fitted out by the Corporation of the Marine Society. with moral and religious advice adapted in a sententious manner to their condition. And to every one who is a candidate for happiness on Christian principles. By J. Hanway Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MVCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Letters on the importance of the rising generation of the laboring part of our fellow-subjects; being an account of the miserable state of the infant parish poor; the great usefulness of the hospital for exposed and deserted young children properly restricted; the obligations of parochial officers; and an historical detail of the whole mortality of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this time. With political, moral, and religious observations on the education and instruction of the poor, marriage, and population. Reflexions on the causes of the high price of provisions; the danger of the national debt, expensive living, and want of zeal for our common welfare. In two volumes. Vol. I. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The great advantage of eating pure and genuine bread, comprehending the heart of the wheat, With all its flour. Shewing how it may contribute to the health and profit of the people and the increase of the quantity of bread, preserving infants from the grave, by destroying the use of allum, and the ingredients to whiten our present wheaten bread: proposing to end the contest amicably, by allowing, upon proper authority, a farthing on a quartern loaf more than seems to be provided for by the present act, with respect to the proportion of 7d. for the standard, and 8d. for the wheaten bread. Second edition, with additions. By Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Virtue in humble life: containing reflections on relative duties, particularly those of masters and servants. Thoughts on the passions, prejudices, and tempers of mankind, drawn from real characters. Fables applicable to the subjects. Various anecdotes of the living and th dead: in Two Hundred and Nine conversations, Between a father and his daughter, amidst rural scenes. Intended as an amusing and instructive library to persons of certain conditions, and proper for all families seeking domestic peace and Christian piety: with a manual of devotion, comprehending extracts from the scriptures, prayers, hymns, religious poems, &c. In two volumes. Vol. I. The second edition, amply corrected, and enlarged an half part. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Two letters. Let.IV. Being thoughts on the means of augmenting the number of mariners in these kingdoms, upon principles of liberty. Let.V. To Robert Dingley, Esq; containing moral and political reasons for relieving prostitutes who are inclined to forsake their evil Course of Life. By Mr. Hanway.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Observations on the causes of the dissoluteness which reigns among the lower classes of the people; the propensity of some to petty larceny: and the danger of gaming, concubinage, and an excessive fondness for amusement in high life, &c. Also an account of the humanity and policy of the Marine Society, now solliciting an Incorporation-The State of the London Workhouse, and the Usefulness and Piety of the Magdalen Hospital, &c. With a proposal for new regulating of Bridewell, in order to render it of important Service to the Police of London. Likewise a plan for preventing the extrordinary mortality of the children of the labouring Poor in London and Westminster. In three letters to a governor of Bridewell, Bethlem, Christ-Church, &c. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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An earnest appeal for mercy to the children of the poor, particularly those belonging to the parishes within the bills of mortality, appointed by an Act of Parliament to be registered. being a general reference to the deserving conduct of some parish officers, and the pernicious effects of the ignorance and ill judged parsimony of others. With some comparative views of those parishes and the Foundling Hospital; And Reasons for the necessity of such an hospital in these cities, to be maintained for certain purposes only, and under certain restrictions. Also a proposal for the more effectual preserving the parish children here, and in other great cities and manufacturing towns, and rendering the children of the poor in general pious, useful, and good subjects. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Letters written occasionally on the customs of foreign nations in regard to harlots: the lawless commerce of the sexes: the repentance of prostitutes: the great humanity and beneficial effects of the Magdalene charity in London: and the absurd notions of the Methodists: with prayers and meditations on the most interesting circumstances and events of life. By J. Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1761