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Total number of records: 92

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Books and printed items89
Archives2
Art items1

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Quaker Collection28
Brotherton Collection23
English Literature2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
University Art Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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war92
political ethics15
political science15
peace8
christianity4
evil, non-resistance to4
sermons, english4
fast-day sermons3
war and morals3
anglican communion2

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Florence (Italy)15
France13
Great Britain7
Poland2
Europe1
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Malta1
Russia1
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Top 10: People and organisations

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Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)15
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)8
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)7
Knox, Vicesimus6
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)6
Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784)5
Beaumont, G of Norwich4
Dymond, Jonathan (1796-1828)4
Farneworth, Ellis (1763)3
Frederick King of Prussia (1712-1786)3

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From 170021
From 180063

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Up to 179917
Up to 189967

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A sermon preach'd May the 5th, 1763, a day of public thanksgiving for the peace to a congregation of Protestant dissenters at the chapel in St. Saviour-Gate, York

Sandercock, Edward (1703-1770)

1763

"Published by Request." Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-D⁴, E² (E2 missing). On text: Psalm XLVI, 8-9.

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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.

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Extracts from Erasmus on the subject of war : taken from a publication under the title of Antipolemus, printed in the year 1794

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

1816

Indexed in: Smith II, 773.

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The manual of peace : exhibiting the evils and remedies of war

Upham, Thomas C (1799-1872); Beckwith, George C (1800-1870)

1842

"The original work embraced, 1. The evils and remedies of war; 2. Suggestions on the law of nations; 3. Considerations of a congress of nations.' The two last parts, and several chapters in the first,...

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Discours de Stanhope, prononcé dans la Chambre-Haute, à la rentrée du Parlement d'Angleterre

Stanhope, Charles Stanhope Earl (1753-1816)

[1794?]

Catalogued from caption-title. Page 5 wrongly numbered with the 5 upside down.

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Querela pacis, undique gentium ejectae, profligataeque

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)

1641

Printer's mark on title page.

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