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The friendly instructor; or, a companion for young ladies, and young gentlemen: In Which Their Duty to God and their Parents, their Carriage to Superiors and Inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive Lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. Vol. II.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Essays upon several moral subjects. In two parts. Part I. Upon Pride. Upon Cloaths. Upon Duelling. Upon General Kindness. Upon the Office of a Chaplain. Upon the Weakness of Human Reason. Part II. Of Fame. Of Musick. Of the Value of Life. Of the Spleen. Of Eagerness of Desire. Of Friendship. Of Popularity. A Thought. Of the Entertainment of Books. Of Confidence. Of Envy. Of the Aspect. Against Despair. Of Covetousness. Of Liberty. Of Old Age. Of Pleasure. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
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The dignity of human nature. Or, a brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence. In four books. I. Of prudence. II. Of knowledge. III. Of virtue. IV. Of revealed religion. By J.B. Master of an academy at Newington-Green, Middlesex.
Burgh, James, 1714-1775.Date: MDCCLIV. MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Seneca's morals by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse, under the title of an after-thought. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65.Date: 1705- Books
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Human prudence: or, the art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. Corrected and very much enlarged.
De Britaine, William.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.
Dubois, Paul, 1848-1918.Date: 1909- Books
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Useful miscellanies: or, serious reflections, respecting mens duty to God, and one towards another. With advices, civil and religious, tending to regulate their conduct in the various occurrences of human life. Published for general service, by a well-wisher to all mankind [Two lines from Charron]
Dover, William.Date: 1753. (Price half-bound 1s. 6d)- Books
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Theological, philosophical, and moral essays, on the following subjects: celibacy, wedlock, Seduction, Pride, Duelling, Self-Murder, Lying, Detraction, Duplicity, Avarice, Generosity, Temperance, Excess, Prosperity, Adversity, Justice, Mercy, death, judgment. To these are added, a letter, (before published) addressed to the King, Lords and Commons, on the brutal practice of boxing; by the Rev. Edward Barry, M.D.
Barry, Edward, 1759-1822.Date: [1797?]- Books
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Ars concionandi: or an instruction to young students in divinity. By J. Barecroft, D.D. The fourth edition. Being advice to a son in the university, with Concionatorum Instructio: Rules for Preaching; or, Advice to all Novices in that Divine Art. Plainly intimating what Subject, Method and Style may be Requisite in it. To which is now added, a short view of the lives, Sufferings, Works and Failures of the fathers in the Three First Centuries. With some Account of the Four First General Councils.
Barecroft, John.Date: 1715- Books
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Seneca's morals by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse under the title of An after-thought. Adorned with cuts. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Self-Knowledge. A treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of that important science, and the way to attain it. Intermixed with various reflections and observations on human nature. By John Mason, A.M.
Mason, John, 1706-1763.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. news-writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of Staying ... Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The Story of Will. Hacket the Enthusiast. With a dedication to the Man in the Moon. By the author of The apology for parson Alberoni; The Dedication to a Great Man concerning Dedications, &c.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: 1720- Books
Staying sane : how to make your mind work for you / Raj Persaud.
Persaud, Raj.Date: 1998- Books
[Sōotomía (romanized form)], or, observations on the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes / By Richard Whitlock.
Whitlock, Richard, 1616?Date: 1654- Books
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The hive: or a collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental, and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best and most approved authors of different nations; but chiefly from the most celebrated English Writers, who have been esteemed the most correct and elegant Models of fine Composition; Intended AS A Repository Of Sententious, Ingenious, And Pertinent Sayings, In Verse And Prose, To which Youth may have recourse upon any particular Topic; and by which they may be taught to think justly, write correctly and elegantly, and speak with Propriety.
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Discourses on domestick duties. By Samuel Stennett, D.D.
Stennett, Samuel, 1727-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A treatise concerning Christian prudence: or the principles of practical wisdom, fitted to the use of human life, and design'd for the better regulation of it. By John Norris, Rector of Bemerton near Sarum.
Norris, John, 1657-1711.Date: 1710- Books
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The balance of the sanctuary. A short and plain essay; declaring, the true balance wherein every thing should be weighed, and, detecting, the false balance wherein many things are weighed, among the children of men. A lecture; in the audience of the General Assembly at Boston, Oct. 5. 1727. [One line from Leviticus]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1727- Pictures
A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
Francken, Frans, 1581-1642.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 45062i- Books
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Sixteen discourses upon doctrines and duties, more peculiarly Christian; and against the reigning vanities of the age. By the author of the life of David.
Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 1686-1768.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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A sermon preach'd at Lincolns-Inn Chapel, on Wednesday the 10th of November 1742, being The Day appointed by His Majesty for a General Fast. By George Watts, M. A. Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn. Publish'd at the Request of the Masters of the Bench.
Watts, George.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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Sickness, its trials and blessings.
Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-Date: 1859- Books
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The Country-parson's advice to his parishioners. In two parts. I. Containing a plain and serious exhortation to a religious and virtuous life. II. General directions how to live accordingly.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. news-writers. Enthusiasm. The Spleen. Country Entertainment. Love. The History of Miss Manage. Ambition and Pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human Nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and Apparitions. The Weather. Female Disguises. The Art of modern Conversation. The Use of Speech. The Punishment of Staying at Home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of Begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The Abuse of Words. Credulity. Eating. The Love of Power. The Expedients to get rid of Time. Retirement. The story of Will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon. By the author of the Apology for Parson Alberoni; the Dedication to a great man concerning dedications, &c.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: 1720