English essays - 18th century
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The pleasing instructor or, entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions and allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, New thoughts on education. Designed for the use of schools, as well as the closet; with a View to form the rising Minds of the Youth of both Sexes to Virtue, and destroy in the Bud, those Vices and Frailties, which Mankind, and Youth in particular, are addicted to.
Date: 1763- E-journals
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Honesty the best policy An essay concerning the true way of rendering a nation happy, and its government firm and lasting.
Edward SyngeDate: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- E-books
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Essays upon the following subjects Viz.1. Of generosity. 2. Of the New Man. 3. Of the Government of the Eye. 4. De Ratione Fidei, &c. 5. Of the Soul of Man. 6. Of Freedom or Liberty of Body and Mind. 7. Of the Passions and Affections. 8. Of Human Perfection. 9. Of the Origin of Sin, &c. 10. Of Gratitude. 11. Of the Blessed Trinity, and somewhat of the Mode. 12. Of Eternal Damnation for Temporal Sin; the Justice, and even Mercy of God therein, vindicated. 13. Of Dreams. 14. Of the Government of our Thoughts. 15. Of Happiness. 16. Of Sinful Ideas. 17. Of Families, and leaving a great Estate to Children. 18. A Letter to Sir R. Southwell, when President of the Royal Society, touching the Equivocal Generation of Plants and Insects; wherein the Creation of the World is particularly lookt into. 19. Of Reading the Holy Scriptures, &c. 20. Of persons running in debt, and dying without Payment. By Whitelock Bulstrode, Esq;.
Bulstrode, Whitelocke, 1650-1724.Date: 1724- E-books
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The pleasing instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of select essays, relations, visions, and allegories collected from the most eminent English authors to which are prefixed New thoughts on education.
Date: [1798?]- E-books
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The pleasing instructor or, entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions and allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, new Thoughts on education. Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as the Closet; with a View to form the rising Minds of the Youth of both Sexes to Virtue, and destroy in the Bud, those Vices and Frailties, which Mankind, and Youth in particular, are addicted to.
Date: 1756