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Author:William Enfield

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William Enfield
(1741–1797)

British cleric

Works

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  • ‘Sermons for the Use of Families,’ 1768–70, 2 vols. 8vo.
  • ‘Prayers for the Use of Families,’ 1770, 2nd edit. 1777.
  • ‘Sermon preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Philip Taylor,’ &c., 1770.
  • ‘Remarks on several late Publications relative to the Dissenters, in a letter to Dr. Priestley,’ 1770. To this Priestley replied.
  • ‘The Preacher's Directory,’ 1771, 4to, 2nd edit. 1781.
  • ‘Hymns for Public Worship, selected,’ 1772, 12mo, 2nd edit. 1781.
  • ‘An Essay towards the History of Leverpool [i.e. Liverpool], drawn up chiefly from the papers left by the late Mr. George Perry,’ 1773, fol., 2nd edit. 1774.
  • ‘The English Preacher, or Sermons on the Principal Subjects of Religion and Morality,’ 1773–79, 9 vols. 12mo.
  • ‘Observations on Literary Property,’ 1774, 4to.
  • ‘The Speaker, or Miscellaneous Pieces selected from the best English Writers,’ 1774. This very popular elocutionary book has often been reprinted.
  • ‘A Sermon on the Death of Mr. J. Galloway,’ 1777.
  • ‘Biographical Sermons on the Principal Characters in Scripture,’ 12mo.
  • ‘A Sermon on the Ordination of the Rev. J. P. Estlin,’ 1778.
  • ‘A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. John Aikin, D.D.,’ 1780.
  • ‘Discourse on the Progress of Religion and Christian Knowledge,’ 1780.
  • ‘Exercises in Elocution,’ 1780, 3rd edit. 1786. To an edition in 1794 he added ‘Counsels to Young Men.’
  • A translation of Rossignol's ‘Elements of Geometry,’ 1781, 8vo.
  • ‘Institutes of Natural Philosophy,’ 1785, 4to, 2nd edit. 1799.
  • ‘History of Philosophy’, abridgement of Johann Jakob Brucker's “Historia Critica Philosophiæ,”’ 1791, 2 vols. 4to, 2nd edit. 1819, 2 vols. 8vo, new edit. 1840.
  • ‘Sermons on Practical Subjects,’ with portrait, and memoir by Aikin, 1798, 2nd edit. 1799

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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