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Anecdotes - Early works to 1800
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Choice scraps, historical and biographical, consisting of pleasing stories and diverting anecdotes, Most of them short to prevent their being tiresome. Comprehending much useful Information and innocent Amusement. For young minds. Embellished with copper-plate cuts.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The pocket remembrancer: or, historical and entertaining anecdotes; being a new and elegant assemblage of the most ingenious sallies of wit, Lively Efdusions Of Fancy, Interesting Portraits Of Virtue And Vice, Humorous Adventures, Whimsical Expedients, wise sayings, pleasing stories, memorable actions, &c. of poets, generals, statesmen, and philosophers, which occur in the annals of ancient and modern history. The Whole Calculated to reflect, in their proper Colours, the various Effects of Virtue and of Vice, of Wisdom and of Folly, as they have from Time to Time been displayed on the grand Theatre of the World; to store the Mind with a Variety of useful and agreeable Knowledge; and thereby, without Trouble or Expence, to qualify the Reader to converse with Care and Propriety, and to shine in the politest Companies.
Date: 1800- Books
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Tabby in Elysium, a mock poem, from the German of F. W. Zachariae, by R. E. Raspe.
Zachariä, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1726-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The marlborough garland. A real anecdote from common life.
Date: 1795- Books
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Falstaff alive again! Or, A choice collection of jests, witticisms, anecdotes, &c. Both ancient and modern. By a Member of Comus's Court.
Member of Comus's Court.Date: 1793