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Book of martyrs: An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion. 4 "Z." (Hannah More) The carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. 5 The cock-fighter: A true history. 6 Isaac Watts Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children. 7 Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of The Gentleman Highwayman. 8
The series was brought to an end by the intervention of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, not unsympathetic to the Tractarians, [5] after the appearance of Newman's Tract 90, which suggested a heterodox reading of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, and caused controversy in the University.
The first of the Scots tracts was The History of Maitland Smith, published in 1807 to raise funds to support the family of the executed criminal in the title. Other titles included The Happy daughter, or the history of Jean Morton. by Elizabeth Hamilton (writer). A 2nd collected edition ‘corrected and greatly enlarged’ was published in ...
Quaker tract of 1820. A tract is a literary work and, in current usage, usually religious in nature. The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. By the early part of the 21st century, a tract referred to a brief pamphlet used for religious and political purposes. Tracts are often either left for someone to find or handed out.
Chick's views have been spread mostly through the tracts and, more recently, online. His company, Chick Publications, says it has sold over 750 million tracts, comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective. They have been translated into more than 100 languages. [5]
In 1873 AD, the orientalist De Khoie published the book in Leiden under the title Tracts and Kingdoms. This was the second part of the Arab Geographical Library series, relying on copies from the Leiden and Oxford treasuries, as well as a copy from the Paris National Bookstore, which he called the Parisian compendium.
Russell wrote many articles, books, tracts, pamphlets and sermons, totaling approximately 50,000 pages. From 1886 to 1904, he published a six-volume Bible study series titled Millennial Dawn , later renamed Studies in the Scriptures , nearly 20 million copies of which were printed and distributed around the world in several languages during his ...
Legh Richmond (1772–1827) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relation of stories of the poor and female subjects, and which were subsequently much imitated. [1]