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A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing Harrisburg, March 11, A. D. 1846. Rev. John F. MesickDear Sir: On last Sabbath evening, 8th inst., you preached a sermon to our congregation on "The Evils of Dancing." As this is a custom which is in...

A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870At a special meeting of the New York Historical Society, held at Steinway Hall, on Tuesday evening, May 17, 1870, William Cullen Bryant...

A Discourse on the PlagueThis Book having at first been written only as a Plan of Directions for preserving our Country from the Plague[1] was then very short and concise. An Act of Parliament being immediately after made for performing Quarantaines &c. according to...

A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and NationsBefore I begin a course of lectures on a science of great extent and importance, I think it my duty to lay before the public the reasons which have induced me to undertake...

A discourse on the theory of gunnery - Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1778Among the several experiments communicated to the society, during the course of the preceding year, none seeming so much to engage your attention, as those...

A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to itOf Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: OfHusbandry, Feeding, Tillage,Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals,Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool,Cotton-Wool, Hempand Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware,Silk, Distilling: Thegreat Advantages of a universalNational Bankdemonstrated: Sugar-baking, Tobacco,Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper-Mills, Powder-Mills:Method to improve...

A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water.All apparent printer's errors retained. Variation in punctuation are as in the original, but missing full stops at end of...

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among MankindJean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712, the son of a watchmaker of French origin. His education was irregular, and though he tried many professionsincluding engraving, music, and teachinghe...

A Discovrse of Fire and Salt - Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as TheologicallHave been informed of your zeal and forwardnesse in advancing Learning and Truth, two commendable vertues, for a man of your merit and profession. And meeting with a subject...

A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare Since printing throughout the title Orts, a doubt has arisen in my mind as to its fitting the nature of the volume. It could hardly, however, be imagined that I associate...

A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco - and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire ReformationAmong the evils which a vitiated appetite has fastened upon mankind, those that arise from the use of Tobacco hold a prominent place, and call loudly for reform....

A Dissertation on Horses - Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the BloodSummary: Osmer shows...

A Dissertation on the Books of Origen against CelsusThe Book of Celsus, [1a] entitled The True Discourse, [1b] is supposed to have been written during the fifth persecution, [1c] in the reign of Marcus Antoninus, and in the one hundred and seventieth year of...

A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbsAn extract of the Dissertation, of which I now publish a Translation, had given me a very high opinion of it; but on a perusal of the whole, I found it still better than I...

A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of TobaccoIn consenting to the publication of the following pages, the author yielded to the request of gentlemen whose opinions he did not feel at liberty to disregard; he therefore hopes...

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they...

A dissolução do regimen capitalistaNinguem hoje contesta que o homem tem direito vida. A legislao punindo o abrto, reconhece-lhe esse direito ainda antes mesmo de nascer. O direito vida subentende o direito ao trabalho, porque o trabalho o meio legitimo de obter recursos para...

A dissuasion to Great-Britain and the colonies, from the slave trade to AfricaI had not well arrived in America, when casting my eyes on so many Black Slaves, I immediately found a warm inclination arise in my breast, to do my endeavours for relieving...

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, Two Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Luciens...

A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, MéxicoFew regions in Middle America are so important zoogeographically as is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, that neck of land connecting North America with Central America, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of...