A View of human nature: or, Select histories
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Swinden, Charles, active 18th century, former owner; Hainsworth, Lewis, former owner; Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane
Published: 1750
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Early works to 1900; Human behavior; Humor
Other titles: Select histories; Wonders of the little world.
Notes: Based in part on Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the little world. Cf. Pref.

Signatures: A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴.

Chainlines are horizontal.

Includes bibliographical references.

ESTC T84426

BM, CCXLVIII, col. 734.