69 results filtered with: English essays - 18th century
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Winter evenings: or, Lucubrations on life and letters. In two volumes.
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The pleasing instructor: or, entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions and allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, New thoughts on education. Designed for the use of schools, as well as the closet; with a View to form the rising Minds of the Youth of both Sexes to Virtue, and destroy in the Bud, those Vices and Frailties, which Mankind, and Youth in particular, are addicted to.
Date: 1763- Books
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Instructive rambles in London, and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. By Elizabeth Helme. In two volumes. ...
Helme, Elizabeth, -1816.Date: 1798- Books
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The world. By Adam Fitz-Adam. ...
Fitz-Adam, Adam.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The pleasing instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of select essays, relations, visions, and allegories collected from the most eminent English authors to which are prefixed New thoughts on education.
Date: [1780]- Books
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The lover. To which is added, The reader; by the same author.
Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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The pleasing instructor: or, entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions, and allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, new Thoughts on education. Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as the Closet; with a View to form the rising Minds of the Youth of both Sexes to Virtue, and destroy in the Bud, those Vices and Frailties, which Mankind, and Youth in particular, are addicted to.
Date: 1766- 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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Honesty the best policy: An essay concerning the true way of rendering a nation happy, and its government firm and lasting.
Synge, Edward, 1659-1741.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Essays upon several subjects in prose and verse. Written by the Lady Chudleigh.
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656-1710.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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The Compendious library: or Pocket companion for winter evening entertainments. Being a curious collection of instructive and diverting essays. Extracted from the best and most authentic authors, both antient and modern: but particularly from the high Dutch, French, and Italian. Volume I. Containing: 1. Several narratives of the most remarkable revolutions, conquests and insurrections. 2. Historical accounts of several foreign countries, and of such things as are therein most worthy of observance. With a great variety of copper plates.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The Morning: or, Judgment. An Essay.
Date: 1748- Books
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The polite preceptor: or, a collection of entertaining and instructive essays ; selected from the best English writers, and Arranged in the most natural Order; with A View to inspire into the Minds of Youth the Love of Virtue, and the Principles of true Taste and just Reasoning.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians, connected and digested under alphabetical heads. In two volumes. ...
Date: [1792]- Books
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The beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians. Connected and digested under alphabetical heads. In Two Volumes. ...
Date: 1767- Books
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The pleasing instructor; or, Entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions and allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, new thoughts on education
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The affectionate father; A sentimental comedy: together with essays on various subjects. By James Nelson, author of an essay On the government of children, under the general heads of health, manners, and education.
Nelson, James, 1710-1794.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Essays on several subjects; viz. the discouragements private men meet with in promoting publick good: Providing for the Poor: The Establish'd Charitable Corporation: Usury: A Recompence for a Benefit: Soul and Spirit: The Divine Nature: Mystery: Wisdom: The Nature, Duty, Powers, Effects and Instruments of Love, &c. Also Arguments Proving from Reason and Revelation, That Woman is a more Glorious, Honourable and Excellent Creature than Man, by the Preferable Endowments proper to her Nature both of Soul and Body. By James Hodges, Esq;
Hodges, James.Date: 1710- Books
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The pleasing instructor or entertaining moralist containing select essays, relations, visions and allegories collected from the most eminent English authors, to which are prefixed New thoughts on education.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The grumbler: containing Sixteen Essays, by the Late Francis Grose, Esq. F.A.S. Of London and Perth.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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An essay towards a new English version of the Book of Job, from the original Hebrew, with a commentary, and some account of his life. By Thomas Heath, Esq. of Exeter.
Heath, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians. Connected and digested under alphabetical heads. In Two Volumes. ...
Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The pleasing instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of select essays, relations, visions, and allegories collected from the most eminent English authors to which are prefixed new thoughts on education.
Date: [1777]- Books
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The bee. Being essays on the most interesting subjects.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The padlock open'd: or, Mungo's medley. Being a choice collection of the miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, serious and comic, of Mungo the padlock-keeper of Drury Lane.
Mungo, Padlock-Keeper of Drury Lane.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]