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Seduction - Early works to 1800

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    The cherub or, guardian of female innocence. Exposing the arts of boarding schools hired fortune tellers corrupt milliners apparent ladies of fashion.

    | Date: 1792
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    The victim, in five letters to Adolphus

    | Date: 1800
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    Serious thoughts on the miseries of seduction and prostitution , with a full account of the evils that produce them; Plainly Shewing, Seduction and Prostitution to be contrary to the Laws of Nature. And a Method pointed out, whereby these two dreadful Evils may be totally exterminated; Fairly deduced from the Laws of God and Nature. Also a candid and impartial Examination into the Merits and Utility of those three learned Professions-Law-Divinity-And Physic-And the important Science of Philosophy-With a Panegyric upon each. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. By Charles Horne.

    Horne, Charles | Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]
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    The art of love in imitation of Ovid De arte amandi. With a preface containing the life of Ovid. By W. King.

    Ovid | Date: [1708]

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