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Education
The dates of publication span the years 1650 to 1993, although the majority of the collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the works are concerned with educational philosophy and me...
Essays, political, economical, and philosophical (v.3)
Rumford, Benjamin Graf von (1753-1814)
1800-1802
Report of the Committee of Enquiry of the London Institution, appointed... May 19th, 1812 ... [etc.]
London Institution. Committee of Enquiry
1812
Antipolemus, or, The plea of reason, religion, and humanity against war : a fragment
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821); Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)
1794
"Appendix" (p. 111-183) includes extracts from letters of Erasmus and miscellaneous anti-war quotations drawn chiefly from heathen authors.
The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle : and applied to chronology, history, geography, languages, systematic tables, poetry, prose, and arithmetic. To which is added some account of the principal systems of artificial memory, from the earliest period to the present time; and instances of the extraordinary powers of natural memory... [etc.]
Feinaigle, Gregor von (1765?-1819)
1813
"Principal systems of artificial memory, chronologically arranged" (67 titles): p. [190]-417.
The new aid to memory
Knott, Robert Rowe (1796-1879)
1843
"Containing a chronology of the patriarchs, kings, rulers, prophets, and the most remarkable epochs from the creation to the destruction of Jerusalem."
Moral sketches of prevailing opinions and manners, foreign and domestic : with reflections on prayer
More, Hannah (1745-1833)
1819
Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society
More, Hannah (1745-1833)
1788
By Hannah More.