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Swearing - Early works to 1800

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    Reflections on profane and judicial swearing . By Joseph Moser.

    Moser, Joseph, 1748-1819. | Date: 1795
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    Swear not at all, saith the Lord God of heaven and earth. ..

    John Wesley | Date: 1744?]
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    An admonition against profane and common swearing . In a letter from a minister to his parishioners. To be put privately into the hands of persons who are addicted to swearing. By the right Rev. Father in God, Edmund Gibson, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of London.

    Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748. | Date: 1800
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    News from the dead: or, a weekly-packet of intelligence, piping-hot from the other world

    | Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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    The immorality of prophane swearing demonstrated In a New method: and Without the Aid of Revelation. Dedicated To Modern Deists and Christians. By a Lover of his country.

    Fleming, Caleb, 1698-1779. | Date: [1746]
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