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Sermons

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  • Leiden, the Netherlands: the anatomy theatre, interior of a church, town weighing establishment and portraits. Line engraving.
  • The Colosseum, Rome: a friar is preaching to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • The face of a woman against a black background bearing the red lettering: "Dass das Leben zu ende Sein kann, noch ehe es begonnen hat, mag für dich unvorstellebar Sein; für mich aber wird es ... zur realitä'; an advertisement for an Ecumenical service at the Protestant Episocopal Church in Bischofszell on Sunday, 29 August on the theme of: 'AIDS - a punishment from God? by Pastors H. Miller and M. Keller with representatives of AIDS-Hilfe Thurgau. Colour lithograph.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Corporal Trim reading a sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
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    A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

    Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776. | Date: [between 1750 and 1759?] | Reference: 2497721i
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    The Bible order of the millennium and the second advent of Christ : a thorough statement of Bible truth / by Daniel D. Buck.

    Buck, D. D. (Daniel Dana), 1814-1895. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899]
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    Leiden, the Netherlands: the anatomy theatre, interior of a church, town weighing establishment and portraits. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 20263i
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    A discourse addressed to the gentlemen of the faculty; the officers; the clergy; and the trustees of the Infirmary at Liverpool on their respective hospital duties, being an anniversary sermon preached in May 1791, before the governors of the institution, for the benefit of the charity / by the Rev. Thomas Bassnet Percival.

    Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804. | Date: 1794
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    A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases.

    Howe, John, 1630-1705. | Date: 1690
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