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A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture / edited by Michael Hattaway.
Date: 2010- Books
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Lay piety and religious discipline in Middle English literature / Nicole R. Rice.
Rice, Nicole R., 1973-Date: 2009- Books
Ghost stories in late Renaissance France : walking by night / Timothy Chesters.
Chesters, Timothy, 1976-Date: 2011- Books
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Dissertations by the celebrated Abbots de Vertot and Anselm. Viz. I. An Enquiry whether the Kingdom of France, from the Establishment of that Monarchy, has been an Hereditary or Elective State. II. A Dissertation on the Oaths of the Ancients; under the following Heads: 1. By what Gods the Ancients were used to swear. 2. The different Ceremonies observ'd in their Oaths. 3. The Use they made of them in Civil Society. 4. Their Religious Observation of them. 5. The Horror they conceiv'd against those who openly violated them; or who, by captious Interpretations, pretended to evade the Force of them, &c. III. A Dissertation concerning the Monuments which supply'd the Defect of Writing among the First Historians. Done into English from the Memoirs of literature of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres at Paris. By M. Paschoud, Chaplain to the Right Honble the Earl of Albemarle.
Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
Reading skin in medieval literature and culture / edited by Katie L. Walter.
Date: 2013- Books
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A review of English literature, as it respects moral and religious inquiry, recommended in a sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, on Sunday, Oct. 25, 1789: Being the Anniversary of his Present Majesty's Happy Accession to the Throne. By W. Purkis, D. D. F. S. A. Late Fellow of Magdalen College, and one of his Majesty's Preachers at Whitehall; now Rector of Carlby and Anderby in Lincolnshire.
Purkis, William, 1734 or 1735-1791.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A collection of miscellanies: consisting of poems, essays, discourses and letters, occasionally written. By John Norris, M. A. Late Rector of Bemerton, near Sarum. Carefully revised, corrected, and improved by the author.
Norris, John, 1657-1711.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, ... with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation; also, a preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; ... By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin, F.R.S. In two volumes. ...
Eisenmenger, Johann Andreas, 1654-1704.Date: 1748- Books
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Essays, moral, religious, and miscellaneous. To which is added, a prose translation of Mr. Browne's Latin poem, De animi immortalitate. By J.H. [ In two volumes. ] ...
Highmore, Joseph, 1692-1780.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The great benefits of Christ to all that believe on and obey him : being a treatise on Hebrews 2, 15 : wherein it is shewed and made known how people may be freed and delivered from the slavish fear of death, whereby they are subject to bondage throughout their life-time : and also how they may be saved and preserved from the evil and danger of death, when it shall approach nigh, and come actually upon them / by Richard Stafford.
Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703Date: Novemb. the 20th, 1693- Books
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The last battell of the soule in death : diuided into eight cofẽrences ... : whereby are shown the diuerse skirmishes that are between the soule of man on his death-bedde, and the enemies of our saluation : carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke / by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of Gods word at Glasgow.
Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653Date: 1629- Books
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The sicke mans salue : wherein all faithfull Christians maie learne both how to behaue themselues patientlie and thankfullie in the time of sicknesse, and also vertuouslie to dispose their temporall goods, and finallie to prepare themselues gladlie and godlie to die / made by Thomas Beacon.
Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567Date: 1587- Books
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To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of the famous city of London, the Honourable the sheriffs, aldermen, Common Council, and all worthy citizens of the same, the humble address of Anthony Wildgoos, workman-printer : in divine meditations on death, made upon these nine words, nothing more sure then death, for all must die.
Wildgoos, AnthonyDate: [between 1640 and 1649?]- Books
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A letter to a Member of Parliament, containing a proposal for bringing in a bill to revise, amend or repeal certain obsolete statutes, commonly called the Ten commandments.
Hildrop, John, 1682-1756.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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A letter to a Member of Parliament, containing a proposal for bringing in a bill to revise, amend or repeal certain obsolete statutes, commonly called the Ten commandments.
Hildrop, John, 1682-1756.Date: [1739?]- Books
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Works : religio medici; Hydriotaphia; the Garden of Cyrs; Christian morals / of Sir Thomas Browne; with a glossary by William Swan Sonnenschein.
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.Date: 1906- Books
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Reason, grace, and sentiment : a study of the language of religion and ethics in England, 1660-1780 / Isabel Rivers.
Rivers, IsabelDate: 1991-2000- Books
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The cock-Fighter. A true history.
Date: [1795?]- Books
Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England / Sasha Handley.
Handley, Sasha.Date: 2007- Books
Intersections of sexuality and the divine in medieval culture : the word made flesh / edited by Susannah Mary Chewning.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
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Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares : A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.
Stafford, Anthony.Date: 1611- Books
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The foūtayne or well of lyfe, out of whiche doth sprynge mooste swete consolations : ryght necessarye for troubled conscyences to thyntente they shal not despayre in aduersitie and trouble.
Date: [1548 or 1549]- Books
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Select remains of the Reverend John Mason, M.A. late Rector of Water-Stratford in the county of Bucks, author of the songs of praise to Almighty God. Containing a variety of devout and useful sayings, on divers subjects, digested under proper heads; religious observations; serious advice to youth; occasional reflections, &c. and Christian letters. Recommended by the Rev. I. Watts, D.D. With a preface, giving some account of the author. By John Mason, A.M.
Mason, John, 1646?-1694.Date: 1743- Books
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The tempest, a religious and moral essay. By Robert Noyes. Author of Distress, a poem; Miscellanies, &c.
Noyes, Robert, -1798.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
Writing illness and identity in seventeenth-century Britain / David Thorley.
Thorley, David, 1979-Date: [2016]