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Examen de ingenios : The examination of mens wits : in whicch [sic] by discouering the varietie of natures is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein / by John Huarte ; translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camilli ; Englished out of his Italian by R.C. Esquire.
Juan Huarte de San JuanDate: 1594- E-books
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Hanging no dishonour . Being a modest attempt to prove that such persons as have the honour to make their exit at the triple-tree are not always the greatest villains in the nation. In a letter from Gentleman Harry, Now under Sentence of Death in Newgate. Addressed to villains of all denominations in Great-Britain.
Date: 1747- E-books
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Cheap repository tracts : entertaining, moral, and religious.
Date: 1798- E-books
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Memoirs of two young gentlemen. Exhibiting the most striking instances of the seduction and snares to which young people are liable, the horrors consequent upon vice and dissipation, the amazing efficacy of divine grace in conversion, the pleasures of a religious life, and the joy of dying in the Lord. Interspersed with awful warnings to companions in iniquity, serious exhortations to improve the time of divine forbearance and benignity, and remarkable anecdotes of the glories of redeeming love and mercy in the salvation of some persons of the most abandoned characters. The Whole Designed To humble and reclaim the sons of vice and profaneness, to animate devoutaspirers to heaven, to repress self-righteousness, exalt the righteousness of God, and promote the sacred interests of religion and virtue
N.Date: 1768