56 results filtered with: Larkin, Ebenezer, 1769?-1813
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The ready reckoner, or, The trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. Shewing, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from half a farthing to 20s. either by the long or short hundred, half hundred, or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c.--In so plain and easy a manner, that a person, quite unacquainted with arithmetick, may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever.--To the most read in figures it will be equally useful, by casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1794]- Books
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The art of speaking. Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or public speaking; and II. Lessons taken from the ancients and moderns (with additions and alterations where though useful) exhibiting a variety of matter for practice; the emphatical words printed in italics; with notes of direction referring to the essay. To which are added, a table of the lessons, and an index of the various passions and humours in the essay and lessons. [Three lines in Latin from Cicero]
Burgh, James, 1714-1775.Date: 1793- Books
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A treatise concerning religious affections, in three parts. Part first. Concerning the nature of the affections, and their importance in religion. Part Second. Shewing what are no certain signs that religious affections are gracious, or that they are not. Part Third. Shewing what are distinguishing signs of truly gracious and holy affections. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. and Pastor of the First Church in Northampton.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.Date: 1794- Books
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The evidences of the Christian religion. By the Rt. Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq. To which are added, several discourses against atheism and infidelity, and in defence of the Christian revelation. Occasionally published by him and others: and now collected into one body, and digested under their proper heads. With a preface, containing the sentiments of Mr. Boyle, Mr. Locke, and Sir Isaac Newton, concerning the Gospel Revelation.
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.Date: 1795- Books
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Julia de Roubigné, a tale. In a series of letters. Published by the author of The man of feeling and The man of the world. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831.Date: 1793- Books
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Friendship in death: in twenty letters from the dead to the living. To which are added, Letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. In three parts. By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. To which is prefixed, an account of the life of the author.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The Pleasing instructor, or Entertaining moralist. Consisting of select essays, relations, visions, and allegories. Collected from the most eminent English authors. To which are prefixed, new thoughts on education.
Date: 1795- Books
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Camilla: or, a picture of youth. By the author of Evelina and Cecilia. In three volumes. ...
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.Date: 1797- Books
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Hymns and spiritual songs. In three books: I. Collected from the Scriptures. II. Composed on divine subjects. III. Prepared for the Lord's Supper. By Isaac Watts, D.D. [Six lines of quotations]
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The medical pocket-book. Containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment: Together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples Extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order. By John Elliot, M.D.
Eliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.Date: 1791- Books
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Seneca's morals, by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse, under the title of an after thought. Adorned with cuts. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65.Date: 1794- Books
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A view of the life, travels, and philanthropic labours of the late John Howard, Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. By John Aikin, M.D. [Four lines of Latin from Seneca]
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: 1794- Books
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The afflicted man's companion: or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness, or any other distress. With directions to the sick, both under and after affliction. Also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them. And likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death; and how to be exercised at the time of dying. To which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers.--The choice sayings of many eminent dying saints.--The author's last advice to his wife and children: and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee. Very necessary for all families.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: --1795- Books
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The beauties of history; or pictures of virtue and vice: drawn from examples of men eminent for their virtues, or infamous for their vices. Selected for the instruction and entertainment of youth. By the late W. Dodd, LL.D. Considerably enlarged.
Dodd, William, 1729-1777.Date: 1796- Books
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The royal standard English dictionary. In which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, their part of speech properly distinguished, and, their various significations arranged in one line; but, likewise, by a key to this work, comprising the various sounds of the vowels and consonants, denoted by typographical characters, and illustrated by examples ... Upon a plan perfectly plain, and entirely new. To which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language. ... By William Perry, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh, author of The only sure guide to the English tongue, The man of business, The orator, &c. &c.
Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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An abridgment of the American gazetteer. Exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a compendious account of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the America continent, and its appendant islands; particularly the West-Indies. ... To which is annexed an accurate table of all the post-offices in the United States. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Masssachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with a map of North America. Abridged by the author. Published according to act of Congress.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: --June, 1798- Books
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Evening amusements for the ladies; or, Original anecdotes, intended to promote a love of virtue in young minds. A series of letters. [Three lines of quotation]
Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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The American preceptor; being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking. Designed for the use of schools. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. author of The Columbian orator, Child's companion, &c. [One line of quotation] Published according to act of Congress.
Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817.Date: 1798- Books
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Seneca's morals, by way of abstract. To which is added, a discourse under the title of an after thought. Adorned with plates. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65.Date: 1800- Books
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The new Robinson Crusoe: an instructive and entertaining history. For the use of children of both sexes. Translated from the French.
Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 1746-1818.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The anatomy of the human body. By William Cheselden, surgeon to His Majesty's Royal Hospital at Chelsea, Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Paris. With forty copperplates.
Cheselden, William, 1688-1752.Date: 1795- Books
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The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship. By Isaac Watts, D.D. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A view of the evidences of Christianity. In three parts. Part I. Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles. Part II. Of the auxiliary evidences of Christianity. Part III. A brief consideration of some popular objections. By William Paley, M.A. Archdeacon of Carlisle. Three volumes in one.
Paley, William, 1743-1805.Date: 1795- Books
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Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress. By the author of Evelina.
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793-1794]- Books
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The coquette; or, The history of Eliza Wharton; a novel; founded on fact. By a lady of Massachusetts.
Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840.Date: 1797