528 results filtered with: Conduct of life
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Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady. In two volumes. By Mrs. Chapone.
Chapone, Mrs. (Hester), 1727-1801.Date: 1775- Books
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A sermon preached before the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut, at Hartford, on the day of the anniversary election May 14th, 1761. By Jonathan Ingersoll, A.M. Pastor of a church in Ridgfield.
Ingersoll, Jonathan, 1714?-1778.Date: MDCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793, by J. Aikin, M.D. [One line of Latin quotation]
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: 1796- Books
Govierno general, moral, y politico. Hallado en las fieras, y animales sylvestres. Sacado de sus naturales virtudes, y propriedades. Con particular tabula para sermones varios de tiempo, y santos / le escribe el padre fray Andres Ferrer de Valdecebro.
Ferrer de Valdecebro, Andrés, 1620-1680.Date: [1728]- Books
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Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The law of nature, or Principles of morality, deduced from the physical constitution of mankind and the universe. By C-F. Volney. [Two lines from Pope]
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.Date: 1796- Books
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The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Marchioness of Lambert's Advice of a mother to her daughter. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables for the female sex.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The observer: being a collection of moral, literary and familiar essays. By Richard Cumberland, Esq. The fifth edition, newly arranged. To which is added, an entire translation of ... The clouds. In six volumes. ...
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.Date: 1798- Books
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Introductio ad sapientiam: or, the art of right thinking, assisted and improved by such notions as men of sense and experience have left us in their writings, in order to eradicate error, and plant knowledge. In two parts. By Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Pictures
Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1799/1800]Reference: 493423i- Books
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The prompter; or A commentary on common sayings and subjects, which are full of common sense, the best sense in the world. [One line of quotation]
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1800- Books
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Necessary directions to live a holy life.
Date: 1740- Books
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A town in its truest glory. A brief essay upon, a town happy, and glorious: recommending, those things, by which a town may come to flourish with all prosperity. A discourse, wherein the state of all our towns, is considered; but the peculiar temptations & occasions of some towns among us, are more particularly accommodated. [Four lines from Leviticus]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1712- Books
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Mercy exemplified, in the conduct of a Samaritan; and recommended to universal imitation. A sermon preached at Boston, in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By Jeremy Condy, A.M. At Cambridge, in that province.
Condy, Jeremiah, 1709-1768.Date: Printed 1767- Books
The observer : being a collection of moral, literary and familiar essays.
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.Date: [1791-1795?]- Books
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Self-Knowledge: a treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of the important science, and the way to attain it. Intermixed with various reflections and observations on human nature. By John Mason, A.M.
Mason, John, 1706-1763.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The mirror of human nature. Wherein are exhibited analytical definitions of the natural and moral faculties, affections, and passions, Whence All Actions Originate. With Maxims for the Regulation thereof. To Which IS Subjoined, A Systematical View Of Human Knowledge. Nosce Teipsum.
Date: [1775]- Books
Strangers drowning : voyages to the brink of moral extremity / Larissa MacFarquhar.
MacFarquhar, LarissaDate: 2015- Books
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A seasonable warning against bad company-keeping: in a discourse from Prov. XIII. 20. By John Webb, A.M. [Two lines from Proverbs]
Webb, John, 1687-1750.Date: 1726- Books
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The whole duty of a woman: or, a guide to the female sex, ... Written by a lady.
Lady, active 1701.Date: 1712- Books
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The Christian temple. Or, An essay upon a Christian considered as a temple. A consideration of great consequence to the interests of Christianity. [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1706- Books
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The Lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of th temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables for the female sex.
Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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Instructions for the education of a daughter, by the author of Telemachus. To which is added, a small tract of instructions for the Conduct of Young Ladies of the Highest Rank. With Suitable Devotions Annexed. Done into English, and revised by Dr. George Hickes.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: 1721- Books
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Seneca's morals, by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse under the title of An after-thought. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLV. [1755]- 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. More especially, while an apprentice, his behaviour after he is free, care in setting up, company with the ladies, choice of a wife, behaviour in courtship, and wedding-day, complaisance after marriage, education of children, &c. By a late Lord-Mayor of London.
Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]