12 results filtered with: Pride and vanity - Early works to 1800
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The works of Edward Young, LL.D. Fellow of All-Souls College, Oxon. ... . containing, The Last-Day, a Poem. The Force of Religion, or Vanquish'd Love. A Paraphrase on Job. The Instalment. To Sir Robert Walpole. Two Epistles to Mr. Pope. The Merchant, a Naval Lyrick. The Ocean, an Ode.
Young, Edward, 1683-1765.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Pride expos'd, and oppos'd; or, the root, branches, and fruit thereof, briefly discover'd, and the pernicious effects attending the same, laid open, in divers scriptural instances and examples. Also, The Blessed Effects and Benefits that accompany the Vertue of Humility, with several Considerations and Motives tending to Incline the Mind (through the Lord's Help) to Embrace the same. By J.B. Author of The Drunkards Looking-Glass, &c.
Bockett, John, 1658-1715.Date: 1710- Books
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Farewell to the world, and its vanities. A pious meditation composed in the last century, by Mr. John Whitson, alderman of Bristol. And now first publish'd from a manuscript copy in Mr. Haynes's collections.
Whitson, John, 1555?-1629.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The fortunate country maid. Being the entertaining memoirs of the present celebrated Marchioness of L V: who from a cottage, Through a great Variety of Diverting Adventures, became a lady of the first quality in the court of France, By her steady Adherence to the Principles of Virtue and Honour. Wherein are display'd The Various and Vile Artifices employ'd by Men of Intrigue for seducing Young Women. With suitable Reflections. From the French of the Chevalier de Mouhy. ...
Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de, 1701-1784.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. A pious meditation, composed in the last century, by that truly benevolent patriot, and Compassionate Friend to the Poor Citizens of Bristol, John Whitson, Esq; Alderman of the said City, and a Member in Several Parliaments. Collected from the Author's Manuscripts. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, collected from authentic records, by George Symes Catcott.
Whitson, John, 1555?-1629.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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No king-sellers: or, a brief detection of the vanity and villany in a sermon, entitul'd, No king-killers. Preach'd by the Scotch-Presbyterian of Swallow-Street, Picadilly.
Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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The vanity of man. A sermon preached at Bishops-Castle, in the county of Salop; Sunday afternoon, May the 24th, 1741. By the Rev. Mr. Richard Mason; ...
Mason, Richard, 1713 or 1714-Date: 1742- Books
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Discourses on the being of a God, and the immortality of the soul; of the weakness of man; and concerning the way of preserving peace with men: being some of the essays written in French by Messieurs du Port Royal. Render'd into English by the late John Lock, gent.
Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695.Date: 1712- Books
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The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians : In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, impudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669Date: Anno. 1628- Books
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The occasional paper. Vol. II. Numb. XII. An essay on the Pride of authors.
Date: MDCCXVIII {i.e. 1718]- Books
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The vanity of human life. A sermon, preached at St. Thomas's, January 1, 1776, for the benefit of the Charity school, in Gravel-Lane, Southwark. By James Pickbourn.
Pickbourn, James.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians : In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, imprudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669Date: Anno. 1628