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An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions - Also, an Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem, in 1692The following pages were in substance composed to be read before the Plymouth Lyceum, in 1829. When it was understood that Rev. Charles...

An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its ValueThe present work is, I believe, the first attempt to treat on a considerable scale the whole subject of Laughter, under its various aspects, and in its connections with our serious activities...

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George...

An Essay on Mediæval Economic TeachingI wish to express my gratitude to the Rev. Dr. Cronin for his kindness in reading the manuscript, and for many valuable suggestions which he made; also to Father T.A. Finlay, S.J., and Mr. Arthur Cox for having given...

An Essay on Papal InfallibilityHoly Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or...

An Essay on Professional Ethics - Second EditionThe dignity and importance of the Profession of the Law, in a public point of view, can hardly be over-estimated. It is in its relation to society at large that it is proposed to consider it. This...

An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the DunciadSince the first publication of Walter Harte's An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad,[1] it has reappeared more than once: the unsold sheets of the first edition were included in A Collection of Pieces in Verse...

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism - With reference to the duty of American femalesThe following are the circumstances which occasioned the succeeding pages. A gentleman and a friend, requested the writer to assign reasons why he should not join the Abolition Society. While...

An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea Failure to recognize that the American, is at heart an idealist is to lack understanding of our national character. Two of our greatest interpreters proclaimed it, Emerson and William James. In a recent address...

An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland What gave them Rise, was my happening, some Time since, to have fallen into Company with two or three sprightly young Gentlemen, then just returned from their Continental Rambles,whoaltho' little burthened with the Religion,...

An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and UlcersThe following pages are presented to the medical public with very humble pretensions. It is chiefly with the minor accidents or diseases that they have to do; but...

An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of PlotinusIt may seem wonderful that language, which is the only method of conveying our conceptions, should, at the same time, be an hindrance to our advancement in philosophy; but the wonder ceases when we consider,...

An Essay on the Development of Christian DoctrineChristianity has been long enough in the world to justify us in dealing with it as a fact in the world's history. Its genius and character, its doctrines, precepts, and objects cannot be treated as matters of...

An Essay on the Effects of Opium. Considered as a PoisonI Was induced to write this Essay, from a Desire of throwing a Light upon a Subject, hitherto but triflingly, and, at best, obscurely treated. As I had no beaten Path to direct me,...

An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast - With a Design to Arrest Its Further DepredationsMany persons may consider it a remarkable circumstance, that an individual, whose profession requires his leisure time to be devoted to the acquirement...

An Essay on the Evils of Popular IgnoranceIf the circumstance of a manner of introduction somewhat different from what would be expected in a composition of the essay class were worth a very few words of explanation, it might be mentioned, that the following...

An essay on the foundations of geometry1. Geometry, throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, remained, in the war against empiricism, an impregnable fortress of the idealists. Those who heldas was generally held on the Continentthat certain knowledge, independent of experience, was possible about the...

An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and educationNothing is more evident, than that a Love of our Children is a great ruling Principle in human Nature; and that it makes a large Part of that Self-love...

An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 8646 Author: Ferguson, Adam Release Date:...

An Essay on the Incubus, or Night-mareYOUR extensive knowlege in every branch of useful and polite literature will sufficiently justify the propriety of this address, though it offers to your acceptance and protection an Essay merely medical. Besides, the subject I have chosen is...