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Book/Printed Material The nature and tendency of balls : seriously and candidly considered, in two sermons, preached in Medway, the first, December 21: the second, December 28, 1818

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Title

  • The nature and tendency of balls : seriously and candidly considered, in two sermons, preached in Medway, the first, December 21: the second, December 28, 1818

Summary

  • This book consists of two sermons delivered by Jacob Ide (1785-1880), pastor of the Second Church in Medway during December 1818. In these sermons, the pastor declares that balls are too expensive, "excite very ardent feelings," and lead to an "inordinate love of company" resulting in idleness. The second sermon is devoted to a common theme in nineteenth-century antidance literature, that dancing and attending balls are contrary to Scripture. Ide's sermons were reprinted in 1859.

Names

  • Ide, Jacob, 1785-1880

Created / Published

  • Dedham : Printed by M. & W.H. Mann, [1819]

Headings

  • -  Amusements--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sermons
  • -  Balls (Parties)--Sermons
  • -  Dance--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sermons
  • -  Sermons, American
  • -  Antidance Literature

Notes

  • -  Shaw & Shoemaker 48319
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • 50 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1741 .I2 1818

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98161187

Online Format

  • image

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Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

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Chicago citation style:

Ide, Jacob. The nature and tendency of balls: seriously and candidly considered, in two sermons, preached in Medway, the first, December 21: the second. [Dedham: Printed by M. & W.H. Mann, 1819] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/98161187/.

APA citation style:

Ide, J. (1819) The nature and tendency of balls: seriously and candidly considered, in two sermons, preached in Medway, the first, December 21: the second. [Dedham: Printed by M. & W.H. Mann] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98161187/.

MLA citation style:

Ide, Jacob. The nature and tendency of balls: seriously and candidly considered, in two sermons, preached in Medway, the first, December 21: the second. [Dedham: Printed by M. & W.H. Mann, 1819] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98161187/>.