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A Trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The art of walking in St. James's park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with coffee-house politicians, exposed. A dissertation on the craft of the town-beggars, and the monstrous pride and insolencies of women-servants: the humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the day of execution. The horse-guards, prov'd to be better subjects, though worse soldiers than the foot-guards. A remarkable character of Sir Timothy Testy, knight. The real causes of the debaucheries practis'd upon the fair sex; shewing the true reasons why such infinite numbers of fine young creatures are daily forc'd into the service of the publick. People of fashion required to keep their young daughters out of their kitchens. A merry water-ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the miseries of that part of the town described; with some account of a tumult near King Edward's stairs, occasioned by a sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a chamber-pot from a two-pair of stairs window on a decay'd baronet's wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Books
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Letters from Altamont in the capital, to his friends in the country.
Jenner, Charles, 1736-1774.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Desultory reflections on police: with an essay on the means of preventing crimes and amending criminals. By William Blizard, F.S.A. Surgeon of the Honourable Artillery-Company, &c.
Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Satyrical reflections on clubs: in twenty nine chapters. 1 Of Clubs in General. 2 The Vertuoso's Club. 3 The Knights of the Golden Fieece. 4 The No-Nose Club. 5 The Man-Killing Club. 6 The Surly Club. 7 The Atheistical Club. 8 The Club of Ugly-Faces. 9 Of the Split-Farthing Club. 10 The Club of Broken Shop-Keepers. 11 The Man-Hunters Club. 12 The Yorkshire Club. 13 The Mock-Heroes Club. 14 The Beaus Club. 15 The Wrangling, or Hussel-Farthing Club. 16 The Quacks Club; or, the Physical Society. 17 The Weekly Dancing Club; or the Buttock-Ball in St. Giles's. 18 The Bird-Fanciers Club; and of their Annual Feast. 19 The Lying Club; and how it came to be establish'd. 20 The Scatter-Wit Club. 21 The Florists Club. 22 Bob Weden's Cellar Club. 23 The Mollies Club. 24 The Bawds Initiating Club. 25 Sam Scot's Smoaking Club. 26 The Thieves Club. 27 The Small-Coal Man's Musick Club. 28 The Kit-Cat Club. 29 The Beef-Stake Club. By the author of the London-Spy. Volume IV.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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The humourous and diverting history of Tom Jones, a foundling: Containing pleasant and delightful account of the goodness and hospitality of the benevolen: Mr. Allworthy; the humours of Squire Western, the famous fox-hunter; and the droll and whimsical adventures which besell Honest Partridge, the School-Master, Parish-Clerk, and barber; interspersed with many curious love-particulars between Mr. Jones, and the beautiful Miss Sophia Western, to whom, after a Number of Crosses and dissappointments, he was at length happily married. The whole comprehending such entertaining scenes, both in high and low life, as are not to be met with in any history of the kind.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: 1794