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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A letter to the Reverend Mr. John Ollyffe, Touching the declaration of Assent and Consent to the liturgy and the Imposition of certain things scrupled therein.
J. A.Date: 1703- Books
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A serious address in favour of a review of our liturgy. Containing a concise history of the alterations made in the Common Prayer, at different Times, and of the Attempts since the last review in 1661, to improve and render our Liturgy yet more perfect. Wherein several Objections against this Design are considered. With Dean Prideaux's scheme for reforming the universities. in our public Worship, and Articles of Religion, for the Apostles', or the ancient Hierosolymitan Creed.
Date: 1751- Books
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La liturgie, ou formulaire des prieres publiques, De l'administration des sacremens, et des autres ceremonies & coutumes de l'eglise, selon l'usage de l'Eglise d'Irlande: avec les pseaumes de David, comme on les list dans les eglises.
Church of Ireland.Date: 1715- Books
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Arguments and proofs from the Holy Word of God, of the excellence and an inquity of the liturgy of the Church of England, by law established. Collected for the Use of the Poor, from the Labours of our Forefathers, who sealed the Truth in Christ with their Blood. By T.R. Filewood, M.A. Rector of Mickleham and Dunsfold, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Hereford.
Filewood, T. R. (Thomas Roger), approximately 1745-1800.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A communion office, Taken Partly from Primitive Liturgies, And Partly from the first English reformed Common-Prayer-Book: together with Offices for Confirmation, and the Visitation of the Sick.
Nonjurors.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]