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A persuasive to a holy life from the happiness which attends it both in this world and in the world to come. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world; by the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodised and digested under distinct heads, with additions, by the Reverend Dr. John Trusler: Containing Every Instruction necessary to complete the Gentleman and Man of Fashion, to teach him a Knowledge of Life, and make him well received in all Companies. For The Improvement Of Youth; Yet not beneath the Attention of any.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: 1775- Books
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Advice from a lady of quality to her children, in the last stage of a lingering illness, in a series of evening conferences on the most interesting subjects. Translated from the French. ...
Lady of quality.Date: M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]- Books
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A present for an apprentice: Or, A sure guide to gain both esteem and estate. With rules for his conduct to his master, and in the world. Under the following heads, lying, dishonestly, fidelity, temperance, excess of all kind, government of the tongue, others peoples quarrels. Quarrels of one's own, affability, frugality, industry, value of time, company, friendship, bonds and securities, recreations, gaming, company of women, horse-keeping, proper persons to deal with, suspicion, resentment, complacency, tempers and faces of men, irresolution and indolence, caution in setting up, great rents, fine shops, servants, choice of a wife, happiness after marriage, domestick quarrels house-keeping, education of children politicks, religion. By a late Lord Mayor of London.
Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764.Date: 1754- Books
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Humane prudence: or, the art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. Corrected and very much enlarged.
De Britaine, William.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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A modern plan: Upon which The Minds and Manners of Youth may be formed: or, A compendium of Moral Institutes made familiar, and adapted to the Circumstances of the present Age. With a Preface, inscribed to Parents, Guardians, and Tutors.
Fleming, Caleb, 1698-1779.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
What really matters : 7 lessons for living from the stories of the dying / Karen M. Wyatt, MD.
Wyatt, Karen M.Date: [2011]- Books
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The danger of bad company with respect to our obedience to God: Or, The Impossibility of their keeping God's Commandments that keep Bad Company: plainly and familiarly set forth in a sermon preach'd in the Parish church of Bisley in Gloucestershire, July the 23d, 1710. By Simon Priest, M. A. Vicar of Bisley.
Priest, Simon, 1653 or 1654-1715.Date: 1710- Books
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Essays upon several moral subjects. Part III. Of Pain. Of Revenge. Of Authors. Of Power. Of Infancy and Youth. Of Riches and Of Poverty. Of Whoredom. Of Drunkenness. Of Usury. Of An Apostle. Of Solitude. Of Discontent. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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Moral and literary dissertations, on the following subjects; 1. On truth and faithfulness. 2. On Habit and Association. 3. On Inconsistency of Expectation in Literary Pursuits. 4. On a Taste for the general Beauties of Nature. 5. On a Taste for the Fine Arts. 6. On the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry. To which are added a tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier, Esq. and an appendix. By Thomas Percival, M. D. F. R. S. & S. A. Member Of The Medical Societies Of London And Edinburgh, And Of The Royal Society Of Physicians At Paris, &c. &c.
Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The modern Christian; or, practical sinner: exemplified, in the monstrous villanies of the age, and the great coolness and indifference of mankind towards their Creator, and the vast concern of salvation. The Farce of a Sick-Bed, and the Humours of the last Hours, in most Examples of Life. Punch and Port, the great Reliefs, in troubled Consciences. H-ll thought no hotter than a Town-Bagnio; and the D-l a sine well-bred Gentleman. Fasting, forgot in South Britain and Ireland. Our Roast-Beef, a weightier Incentive than our Religion, for Foreigners to visit us. Hypocrisy, a certain Sign of Insolvency. A Story of a 6 per cent. Lady, who pray'd her Friends and Acquaintances out of 30,000 l. principal Money. Marriage, a Separation for ever: The false Education of young Ladies the Cause of it. Christian Behaviour, much out of fashion: Quadrille and Ombre, obtain'd their Freedom of the City of London. All Men running mad and bewitched, and pursuing their own Destruction.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The religious tradesman, or, Plain and serious hints of advice for the tradesman's prudent and pious conduct, from his entrance into business, to his leaving it off. Contained under the heads, of the nature of a life of business, and obligations to it. Of chusing a calling. Of prudence, or discretion. Of diligence. Of justice, of truth, and of contentment, as they relate to trade. Of religion. Of leaving our callings. [Seven lines from Watts' preface]
Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.Date: [178-?]- Books
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Models of conversation for persons of polite education. Selected and translated from the French of M. L'Abbé de Bellegarde.
Bellegarde, M. l'abbé de (Jean Baptiste Morvan), 1648-1734.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims, relating to the conduct of human life. In two parts.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: 1718- Books
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The great evil and danger of profuseness and prodigality. In a letter to a friend. By the Reverend Mr. John Kettlewell, Late a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.Date: 1705- Books
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Introduction to the art of thinking. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. By the late Henry Home, Esquire, (one of the senators of the College of Justice.
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Familiar letters, on a variety of important and interesting subjects, from Lady Hariet Morley, and others.
Douglas, F. (Francis), 1710?-1790?.Date: 1773- Books
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Lord Chesterfield's Advice to his son, on men and manners: or, a new system of education, In Which The Principles Of Politeness, The Art Of Acquiring A Knowledge Of The World, With Every Instruction Necessary To Form A Man Of Honour, Virtue, Taste, And Fashion, Are Laid Down In A Plain, Easy, & Familiar Manner.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son, on men and manners: or, a new system of education. In which the principles of politeness, the Art of acquiring a Knowledge of the World, with every Instruction necessary to form a Man of Honour, Virtue, Taste, and Fashion, are laid down in a plain, easy, familiar manner, adapted to every Station and Capacity. The whole arraigned on a Plan entirely new.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. Part the first.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1792- Books
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The economy of human life. In two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an Indian Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China to the Earl of **********. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: [1796]- Books
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A present for an apprentice: or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and an estate; with rules for his conduct to his master, and in the world. By a late Lord Mayor of London.
Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her possession. In four volumes. ...
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth. With a variety of rules to guard against error in the affairs of religion and human life, as well as in the sciences. By Isaac Watts, D.D.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: July, 1796- Books
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Les loisirs de Madame de Maintenon.
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.Date: 1757