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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Sermons on various subjects. In Two volumes. ... . I. Of Justification by Christ. -34 II. The Almost Christian. - -35 III. The Extent and Reasonableness of Self-Denial. - - - -36 IV. The Necessity and Benefits of Religious Societies. - - 37 V. Intercession every Christian's Duty. 38 VI. The Great Duty of Family-Religion. 39 Vii. The Heinous Sin of profane Cursing and Swearing. - - - - 40 Viii. Thankfulness for Mercies received, a necessary Duty. IX. The Eternity of Hell-Torments. - 41 By George Whitefield, A. B. of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.Date: 1739- Books
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Sermons upon the following subjects, viz. The divinity of Jesus Christ. The millennium. The wisdom of God in the permission of sin. By Joseph Bellamy, ...
Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.Date: [1783]- Books
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Sermons upon the following subjects, viz. The divinity of Jesus Christ. The millennium. The wisdom of God in the permission of sin. By Joseph Bellamy, D. D. Minister of the Gospel at Bethlem.
Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.Date: 1787- Books
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Seven sermons: viz. I. Of the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost: or, The Sin unto Death. II. The Saint's duty and exercise: In Two Parts. Being an Exhortation to, and Directions for Prayer. III. The accepted time, and day of salvation. IV. The end of time, and beginning of eternity. V. Joshua's resolution to serve the Lord. VI. The way to heaven made plain. Vii. The future state of man: - By Robert Russel, at Wadhurst, in Sussex. The twelfth edition. Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order.
Russel, Robert, active 1692.Date: 17[0]5- Books
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An exhortation to that greatest of charities, rescuing the infant poor from sin, and educating them in the principles of virtue and religion. A sermon preached in the Parish-Church of Towcester, and Diocese of Peterborough, on Sunday, the first of October, 1786, for the benefit of the Sunday school established in that place. By the Rev. William Peters, of Exeter-College, Oxford, rector of Litchborough, in Northamptonshire, chaplain to the Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and R.A.
Peters, William, active 1786.Date: [1786]