 | Dawson, William, & Sons, of London - 1809 - 344 pages
...frontispiece and verses opposite, folio, neat, 12s. 16595303 SPENSER'S (Dr. J.) Discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanity of Presages by them...their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated, sm. Svo. calf, 4s. 6d. PRINTED IN THE YEAR OF THE GREAT PLAGUE. 1665 " A very learned work." — Chalmers.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...prophecies in which the fanatics of that day dealt very largely. This he entitled '' A discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanity of presages by them...their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated." A second edition of this seasonable and learned work, corrected and enlarged, was published at London,... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...of dangerous consequence thus to unsettle men's minds, published, in 1663, " A Discourse concerning Prodigies ; wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Use is asserted and vindicated." In the preface he says, '£ We have of late been persuaded by three... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...prophecies in which the fanatics of that day dealt very largely. This he entitled " A discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the vanity of presages by them...their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated." A second edition of this seasonable and learned work, corrected and enlarged, was published at London,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Classified catalogs - 1827 - 694 pages
...Spirits to the said Dr. Dee. folio, London, 1659. [B. 2. 2.] SPENCER (John) A Discourse concerning Prodigies ; wherein the Vanity of Presages by them...their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated. To which is added, a short Treatise concerning Vulgar Prophecies. 8vo. London, 1665. [E. 18. 16.] GLAJTVIL... | |
 | Queens' College (University of Cambridge) Library - Classified catalogs - 1827 - 884 pages
...Spirits to the said Dr. Dee. folio, London, 1659. [B. 2. 2.] SPENCER (John) A Discourse concerning Prodigies; wherein the Vanity of Presages by them...their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated. To which is added, a short Treatise concerning Vulgar Prophecies. 8vo. London, 1665. QE. 18. 16.] GLANVIL... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Classified catalogs - 1827 - 698 pages
...Spirits to the said Dr. Dee. folio, London, 1659. [B. 2. 2.} SPENCER (John) A Discourse concerning Prodigies ; wherein the Vanity of Presages by them...their true and proper Ends asserted and -vindicated. To which is added, a short Treatise concerning Vulgar Prophecies. 8vo. London, 1665. QE. 18. 16.] GLANVIL... | |
 | William Straker - 1831 - 298 pages
...their travels to heaven. Folio, fine portrait by Cross, scarce, II. Is. - - 1659 5312 Spencer (John) on Prodigies, wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true ends asserted. 8vo, neat, 4s. 6d. - - - 1665 5313 Spencer (Joan.) de Legibus Hebrœorum Ritualibus,... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1836 - 432 pages
...in the body of the sun, some, thogh rarer, failings of its usual splendor. (A Discourse concerning Prodigies, wherein the Vanity of Presages by them...their true and proper Ends asserted and vindicated, p. 294. edit. Lond. 1665, 8vo.) JOHN DRYDEN. (Born 1631. died 1700.) To begin then with Shakespeare:... | |
 | Frederick Robert Augustus Glover - Clergy - 1840 - 346 pages
...Mast. Corp. Col. Oxon. ; Archd. Sudb. ; Preb. & Dn. Ely. Born 1630; died 1695. A Discourse concerning Prodigies ; wherein the vanity of presages by them...their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated. 1663. 2nd edition, with the addition of a Discourse concerning Vulgar Prophecies ; wherein the vanity... | |
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SPENCER (John) A Discourse concerning Prodigies ; wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper Ends asserted and -vindicated. 
