Pride and vanity - Early works to 1800

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The occasional paper Vol. II. Numb. XII. An essay on the Pride of authors.
Date: 1718
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No king-sellers or, a brief detection of the vanity and villany in a sermon, entitul'd, No king-killers. Preach'd by the Scotch-Presbyterian of Swallow-Street, Picadilly.
Date: 1715
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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities . A pious meditation, composed in the last century, by that truly benevolent patriot, and Compassionate Friend to the Poor Citizens of Bristol, John Whitson, Esq; Alderman of the said City, and a Member in Several Parliaments. Collected from the Author's Manuscripts. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, collected from authentic records, by George Symes Catcott.
Whitson, John 1555?-1629.Date: 1789
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The vanity of human life . A sermon, preached at St. Thomas's, January 1, 1776, for the benefit of the Charity school, in Gravel-Lane, Southwark. By James Pickbourn.
Pickbourn, JamesDate: 1776
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The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians : In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, impudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.
William PrynneDate: Anno. 1628