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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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An humble attempt to set forth the true Christ of God, above the false Christ's of men, and the one mediator, as distinguished from the various mediators of men's invention; also to Shew the Only Foundation-Stone, Instead of the Many Sandy Foundations; and that Jesus is the Supreme-Real-Head, and Husband of the Church; Different from Every Other That has been Imposed on her Through the Ignorance of Men. By a lover and preacher of the revealed word of God.
Lover and preacher of the revealed word of God.Date: [1799]- Books
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The necessity of faith, and of the revealed Word of God; to be the foundation of all divine and saving-faith: in a sermon preach'd at the lecture in Lewis in Sussex, the fourth of September, 1707. Against the Fundamental Error of the Quakers; that the Light within them, and within every Man is sufficient to their Salvation without any thing else, whereby (as to themselves) they make Void, and Destroy all Revealed Religion. By George Keith, M. A. Rector of Edburton in Suffex: Published at the Request of some of the Auditory.
Keith, George, 1639?-1716.Date: 1707- Books
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Fifteen discourses upon the following subjects, Viz. The Dignity and Humiliation of the Son of God. The Resurrection of Christ. The Exaltation of Christ; and the Descent of the Holy Ghost. The Certainty of a future Judgment. The Goodness of God Almighty. The Triumphs of a true Christian Faith. The Necessity of Christian Practice in order to Happiness, and the Certainty of Happiness upon Christian Practice, The Worship of God in the Beauty of Holiness explain'd, and enforc'd. The Duty of mutual Love explain'd and enforc'd. The happy Consequences of Afflictions to sincere Christians. The Treatment which Persons in Distress meet with from their Acquaintance and Enemies consider'd and dissuaded from. To which is subjoin'd, A brief enquiry into the causes why the word preach'd doth not profit; together, with a Consideration of the Folly and Danger of being influenc'd by 'em. By Stephen Clarke, M. A. Rector of Barythorpe in Yorkshire.
Clarke, Stephen, Rector of Burythorpe.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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The pulpit-Lunaticks: or a mad answer to the Mad Report, Made by a Committee of Mad Priests, against Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Bangor. Being A Mad Venture of Neck or Nothing to save the Church, By that Mad Author, who ran the same Hazard to save the State. The whole Satyr Consisting of nothing but Mad Reflections upon the Mad Steps that were lately taken by the Lower House of Convocation, (now most deservedly call'd The New Bedlam) in charging this Right Reverend Father in God with Dangerous Positions and Doctrines, in his Preservative and Sermon, Preach'd March 31. 1717, and contains A Secret History of the Raving Fits of the Pulpit-Lunaticks (or Convocation-Madmen) for above a Thousand Years, but more especially from Arch-Bishop Lauds High-Church Phrenzy down to their late Prorogation with A Distinct and Mad Character of the Atheism, Pride, Heresies and Treason of all those Dignify'd clergymen that have occasion'd the present Distraction both in Church and State. Also, A Mad Speech to the Convocation fairly proving (by Persons of undoubted Credit) that Bangor is now the Word, for a true Lover of King George, and the Protestant Succession in his Illustrious House; and Committee-Priest, of one that attempts to restore a Topish Pretender, by raising New Divisions amongst his Majesty's Subjects when the Old ones were almost heal'd. Being A Seasonable (tho' Mad) Alarm to the whole Nation, most humbly Inscrib'd to that Bright Ornament of the Church of England, Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Bangor, By the Madman that's Author of this Lunacy.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1717]- Books
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Sixteen discourses upon the following subjects, Viz. The Dignity and Humiliation of the Son of God. The Resurrection of Christ. The Exaltation of Christ; and the Descent of the Holy Ghost. The Certainty of a future Judgment. The Goodness of God Almighty. The Triumphs of a true Christian Faith. The Necessity of Christian Practice in order to Happiness, and the Certainty of Happiness upon Christian Practice. The Worship of God in the Beauty of Holiness explain'd and enforc'd. The Duty of mutual Love explain'd and enforc'd. The happy Consequences of Afflictions to sincere Christians. The Treatment which Persons in Distress meet with from their Acquaintance and Enemies consider'd and dissuaded from. To which is subjoin'd, A brief enquiry into the causes why the word preach'd doth not profit; together with a Consideration of the Folly and Danger of being influenc'd by 'em. By the late Rev. Stephen Clarke, M. A. Rector of Burythorp, in Yorkshire.
Clarke, Stephen, Rector of Burythorpe.Date: [1750?]