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The seaman's preservation: or, safety in shipwreck. To which are added, admonitions and precepts, to prevent, by various and easy methods, the diseases incident to seafaring people. By J. Wilkinson, M. B. Coll. Sap. Pisan. & F. A. S.
Wilkinson, John, 1746-1819.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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A true and faithful relation of the damage that was done by the thunder and lightning to the parish church and steeple of Crocomb, near Stogomer in the county of Somerset.
Norris, WilliamDate: [1724?]- Books
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The newest, best, and very-much esteemed book of knowledge. Being very necessary and useful for the instruction and benefit of all persons. Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations; with the strange events that happen to men, women, and children, born under them. Together with the husbandman's practice: or, pregnostication for ever. And the shepherd's perpetual calendar for the weather. Also a brief discourse of the natural causes of meteors; with an account of several remarkable earthquakes, rains, thunders, thunder-bolts, lightnings, comets, blazing-stars, &c. And observations on the weather, and signs foretelling rain. - a brief collection of all the members of man physiognomiz'd. - Signification of moles on man or woman. - Interpretation of dreams. - And Pythagoras's wheel of fortune. With a particular account of the earth and sea: and a description of the most magnificent Temple of Solomon: also of the seven wonders of the world.
Date: 1764- Books
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Aminadab, one of the people called Quakers, to the B--p of L--n; on his Letter to the clergy and inhabitants of London and Westminster, concerning the late earthquakes.
Aminadab, one of the people called Quakers.Date: 1750?]