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Mr. Joanidion Fielding his true and faithful account of the strange and miraculous comet which was seen by the mufti at Constantinople : As appears by the Daily Courant of last month. / By E. Parker, Philomath.
Parker, E., active 1717Date: [1717?]- Books
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Merlinus anonymus : An Almanack, and no almanack. A kalendar, and no kalendar. An ephemeris (betwixt jest, and earnest) for this present year 1655. Being besse sextile or leap year. Containing many chronological concavities, monethly observations, Scoganicol annotations, and Tarltonical predictions of the state of great Brittain, and all Europe in general. Of the two ominous eclipses, this year visible in our horizon, the one by the interposition of the sun betwixt the moon and the earth, the other at the moons ingress into Libra. The mutual aspects of the twelve signs, as they are seated in Lillies Almanack, also a tide table, and some spagitical schemes, not to be found in Bullialdus or Durca. Also, a dogmatical diary, very useful for court, city, and country, which other crotchets of most copious contrivance: intended especially for the horizon of Saint James es [sic], Clerkenweel, where the pole is elevated from that of Grubstreet, 3947 cubits, and may indifferently (id est, so, so,) serve for all clymats, countries, and continents, and the most un-inhabitable parts of the earth. / By Raphael Desmus.
Sheppard, S. (Samuel)Date: 1655- Books
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Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701 : Found several years after his death, hid under an old close-stool-pan. And now publish'd by his executors, to make some people merry, and the rest mad. Containing, comical predictions for every month in the year, carefully calculated, to make both sexes shake their sides till they break their twatling-strings.
Poor RobinDate: 1671- Books
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Merlinus anonymus : An almanack, and no almanck [sic]. A kalendar, and no kalendar. An epemeris [sic] (between jest, and earnest) for the year 1654. Lunacious observations, monethly prognostications, and chronological annotations, pointing to a clear discovery of vvhat was, is, and shall be. With a prophylatical prediction, as well on divers dreadful eclipses, as the mutual aspects of those saturine, joviall, solar, venerious, witty, warlike, watry, (pegasian) planets, vvho govern mens bodies, and the magnetick motions of terrestial carcases. Also, a meteorogical diary fitted for the use of citizen, and countriman, ... Intended especially for the horizon of Saint Andrews Holburn, viz: Grayes-Inn-lane, vvhere the pole is elevated 1600 cubits from that of Comsmopolis, ... / By Raphael Desmus philologist.
Sheppard, S. (Samuel)Date: 1654. [i.e. 1653]- Books
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Hell in an uproar : occasioned by a scuffle that happened between the lawyers and the physicians, for superiority. A satyr.
Burridge, Richard, 1670-Date: MDCC. [1700]- Books
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Hell in an uproar : occasioned by a scuffle that happened between the lawyers and the physicians, for superiority. A satyr.
Burridge, Richard, 1670-Date: MDCC. [1700]- Books
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The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a physician in Pekin; : for the murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, treasurer to the army of the Emperor of China, before the great council of mandarines. / Taken in short hand by the linguist of the English factory.
Date: 1746- Books
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To all gentlemen, ladies, and others, whether of city, town, or country: Alexander Bendo wisheth all health and prosperity.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680Date: [1700]