Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

A View of human nature: or, Select histories

giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their perfections or defects, either of body or mind; or who have been in any respect, remarkable instances of divine Providence : the whole collected from the best authors in various languages, with the addition of several curious particulars never before publish'd : and digested under the following heads, amongst many others, viz. monstrous and preternatural births; giants and dwarfs; vast strength of some persons; extraordinary longevity; persons who have return'd to life after they have been supposed to be dead; strange discoveries of murder; the strength of imagination; great memory; loving husbands and wives; indulgent parents, and dutiful children; gratitude and friendship; singular charity; uncommon patience and fortitude; pride and ambition; great eaters and drinkers; instance[!] of temperance and long abstinence; great sleepers, and walkers in their sleep; dreams, presages, and predictions; magicians, wizards and witches; apparitions; persons wonderfully preserv'd from death; horrid imprecations, and appeals to God, &c. &c. &c. : with miscellaneous notes

by Samuel Birt

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English

Description

No source description yet.

None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of A View of human nature: or, Select histories (1750). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Cryptozoology and Forteana

Subjects: Curiosities and wonders, Early works to 1900, Humor, Human behavior

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Cryptozoology and Forteana.

  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Curiosities and wonders”. Retained metadata contains “Curiosities and wonders” in the subject metadata.

    • “Curiosities and wonders”· via Open Library
    • “Curiosities and wonders”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Where a scan or ebook exists, it is listed here.

No public full text is known for this record.

None of our sources reported a scan or ebook. It may exist elsewhere — these searches are a good next step.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their perfections or defects, either of body or mind; or who have been in any respect, remarkable instances of divine Providence : the whole collected from the best authors in various languages, with the addition of several curious particulars never before publish'd : and digested under the following heads, amongst many others, viz. monstrous and preternatural births; giants and dwarfs; vast strength of some persons; extraordinary longevity; persons who have return'd to life after they have been supposed to be dead; strange discoveries of murder; the strength of imagination; great memory; loving husbands and wives; indulgent parents, and dutiful children; gratitude and friendship; singular charity; uncommon patience and fortitude; pride and ambition; great eaters and drinkers; instance[!] of temperance and long abstinence; great sleepers, and walkers in their sleep; dreams, presages, and predictions; magicians, wizards and witches; apparitions; persons wonderfully preserv'd from death; horrid imprecations, and appeals to God, &c. &c. &c. : with miscellaneous notes

Open Library record

1750Printed for S. Birt in Ave-Mary-LaneEnglish—No ebook

Subjects

4 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloged from

Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL33369709W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved