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Avis rememoratif, ou un mot de caution, adressé aux riches. Par Jean Woolman, de Mont-Holly, dans la Nouuvelle Jersey; qui mourut, l'an 1772. Traduit de l'anglais, par Jacques Desmanoirs. Youghall 1800.
Woolman, John, 1720-1772.Date: 1800- Books
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An epistle from the national half-year's meeting held in Dublin, By adjournments, from the 3rd day of the fifth month 1778, to the 7th of the same, inclusive. To the monthly and quartely meetings, and other meetings of discipline of friends in Ireland.
National Half-Year's Meeting Held in Dublin (Society of Friends)Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Love and avarice: or, the fatal effects of preferring wealth to beauty. Exemplified in the history of a young gentleman of fortune and two ladies, to both of whom he was married; to the first for Love, and to the other for her Money; and the unhappy Consequences the Knowledge of it produc'd. Interspers'd with a Variety of entertaining Incidents; particularly the Manner in which the First Lady was induc'd to part with her Honour; how she persuaded him to marry her privately, and by what Means she was brought to consent to his marching with another; and their living together afterwards, 'till the whole Affair became publick. By a lady of Shropshire.
Lady of Shropshire.Date: 1748- Books
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A letter to a conscientious man: concerning the use and the abuse of riches, and the right and the wrong ways of acquiring them: shewing that stock-jobbing is an unfair way of dealing; and particularly demonstrating the fallaciousness of the South-Sea scheme.
Date: [1720]