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Long livers: a curious history of such persons of both sexes who have liv'd several ages, and grown young again: with the rare secret of rejuvenescency of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, and a great many ... rules to prolong life: as also how to prepare the universal medicine .... / [translated] by Eugenius Philalethes, F.R.S. [i.e. R. Samber].
Harcouet de Longeville, approximately 1660-1720Date: 1722- Books
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Youth's introduction to trade and business. Containing I. Tables of the most usual clerk-like contractions of words; with proper Directions how to address Persons of Elevated Rank, and those in Office. II. Acquittances and promissory notes diversified, and adapted to such Circumstances as occur in real Business. III. Variety of Bills of Parcels, and Bills on Book-Debts, to enter the Learner in the Manner and Methods of Commerce, and to make him ready at Computation. IV. Bills of Exchange, with necessary Directions for the right Understanding and Management of Remittances, with various Orders for Goods, Letters of Credit, Invoices, and other Merchant-Like Examples. V. Authentic Forms of such Law-Precedents, as are most frequently met with in the Course of Traffic. VI. Great Variety of Questions interspersed, to exercise the Learner in the Common Rules of Arithmetic, to use him to Calculation, and to bring him acquainted with the Use, the Properties and Excellency of Numbers, by Way of Recreation. By M. Clare, late Master of the Academy in Soho-Square, London. The tenth edition, revised and improved, with the addition of an appendix, containing, The Methods of Solving All the intricate Questions: b Benjamin Webb, Writing-Master and Accountant, and Master of the Grammar School belonging to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in Bunhill-Row; Author of the Tables for buying and selling Stocks, and of the Complete Annuitant.
Clare, M. (Martin), -1751.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The idea of history : with lectures 1926-1928 / R.G. Collingwood ; edited with an introduction by Jan van der Dussen.
Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943Date: 1994- Books
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Every man his own lawyer: or, a summary of the laws of England in a new and instructive method, under the following Heads, Viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests, and Bail. II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, and how acquired; Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and other Statutes. VI. Of the King and his Prerogative, the Queen and Prince, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of Peace, Constables, &c. Vii. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder, Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c. And their Punishment. All of them so plainly treated of, that all Manner of Persons may be particularly acquainted with our Laws and Statutes, concerning Civil and Criminal Affairs, and know how to defend Themselves and their Estates and Fortunes; In all Cases whatsoever.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1740- Books
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The complete parish-officer; containing, I. The authority and duty of high constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens; how cho-chosen; their Business in repairing of Churches, &c. and assigning of Seats; the Manner of possing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of all the Acts for building Churches in London and Westminster. Also of Sidesmen, and their Duty; and Vostrymen, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in relieving, employing, and settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of Surveyors of the Highways, and Scavengers; how elected; their Business in amending the Ways, &c and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. V. Of watchmen, their Original and Power. Together with the new Statutes relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs, Watermen, &c. The sixteenth edition, revised and corrected, with numerous additions; particularly the Abstracts of all the Acts of Parliament for building and repairing Churches; maintaining the Poor; providing a Watch; paving, cleansing, enlightening, and adorning the several Squares, Streets, and Places within the respective Parishes of England, to the 11th Year of K. George III. inclusive, not to be met with in any other Book of the Law hitherto published. To which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. in the Year 1610, declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1772- Books
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State law: or, the Doctrine of Libels, Discussed and Examined. Shewing, I. Every species of defamatory-writing, what shall be deemed and taken for such; and how far the same are Punishable by the Laws of the Land. II. The Sense of both Civil and Canon Lawyers in this Points with great Variety of Precedents, and Adjudged Cases. Faithfully cited from all our Reports. III. Particular Instances of Printed Libels; with the Proceedings against, 1. H. Carr, for writing The Weekly Packet of Advices from Rome, 31 Car. II. 2. Of S. Johnson and R. Baxter for Libelling King James II. 3. Of Hurt, for printing The Flying Post, 12 Anne. 4. Of Curll, for printing Ker of Kersland's Memoirs, &c. 10 Geo. ... With two remarkable cases: 1. Temp. Hen. 70. of Several Persons executed for a Libel against his Ministry, which was deemed High-Treason. 2. The Case of Sir William Williams, (speaker of the House of Commons) fined 10000l. for a Libel. Also, the opinions of Lord Chief Justice Hale, Holt, and Parker, concerning state-libels.
Date: [1730?]- Books
The war : operations, i.e., description of how units work during fighting, casualty lists, honours, etc.
Date: [1918?]- Books
Science, belief, and behaviour : essays in honour of R. B. Braithwaite / edited by D.H. Mellor.
Date: 1980- Books
Phosphorus, food, and our future / Edited by Karl A. Wyant, Jessica E. Corman, James J. Elser.
Date: [2013]- Books
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Lex vadiorum. The law of mortgages. Wherein is treated, the nature of mortgages, either by deed absolute, and the several sorts of proviso's therein; Or by Defeazance, Demise and Redemise, Covenant, or otherwise: With special Clauses, Conditions, &c. Illustrated by many Precedents and adjudged Cases. Also of Payment of Mortgage Money, by whom and to whom; and several Cases and Rules of Tender, &c. Likewise of Assignments of Mortgages; and the Manner of Transferring, Accounting, &c. With proper Precedents thereof. And further, Of the Equity of Redemption, and the Nature of it, and by what Rules 'tis govern'd, and of Releases thereof, and how transferrable or extinguishable: With the Niceties of buying in precedent Incumbrances, &c. with Precedents of Bills, Answers, Pleas, &c. The third edition; with the addition of modern cases of mortgages, Pawns, Pledges, &c. lately adjudged at Common Law, and in Equity. By Samuel Carter of the Inner Temple, Esq;
S. C. (Samuel Carter), of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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An impartial enquiry into the legal construction of the College of Physicians, in London. Shewing, from their charter ... and their own statutes, how much they have deviated from their original institution / [Anon].
Pye, Samuel, -1772Date: 1753- Books
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The crown circuit companion. Containing the practice of the assizes on the Crown Side; with the courts of the general and general quarter sessions of the peace; wherein (among other things incident to the practice of the crown law) is included, a collection of useful modern precedbnts of indictments in criminal cases; as well at common law, as those created by statute. Under all which precedents, so much of the common and statute laws are set forth, as at one view to shew the circumstances that create the several offences; the offenders punishment, and how; and in what cases felons are within, or ousted of the benefit of clergy. With references to the printed authorities, relating thereto, By W. Stubbs, and G. Talmash, of Staples-Inn, gentlemen.
Stubbs, W.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox. And proceedings of a society for promoting general inoculation at stated periods, and preventing the natural small-pox, in Chester / by John Haygarth.
Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.Date: 1784- Books
The right tools for the job : at work in twentieth-century life sciences / edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura.
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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Every man his own lawyer: or, a summary of the laws of England in a new and instructive method, under the following Heads, viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests, and Bail. II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, and how acquired, Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and other Statutes. VI. Of the King and his Prerogative, the Queen, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of Peace, Constables, &c. Vii. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder, Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c. And their Punishment. All of them so plainly treated of, that all Manner of Persons may be particularly acquainted with our Laws and Statutes, concerning Civil and Criminal Affairs, and know how to defend Themselves and their Estates and Fortunes; In all Cases whatsoever.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Manwood's treatise of the forest laws: Shewing not only the laws now in force, but the original of forests, what they are, and how they differ from chases, parks, and warrens; which all such things as are incident to either: together with the proper terms of art, collected out of the common and statute laws of this realm; as also from the assises and iters of Pickering and Lancaster, and several other ancient and learned authors. Treating also of the office of agistors, beadles, foresters, keepers, rangers, verderors and wood wards, and of the courts of attachment, &c. with all the variety of cases relating to forests, chases, parks, and warrens; and all the laws concerning the game made, adjudged or repealed, since the year 1665. The whole digested under proper titles in an alphabetical order. The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. By William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;
Manwood, John, -1610.Date: 1717- Books
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The merchant's magazine: or, trades-man's treasury. containing, I. Arithmetick in Whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal; with the Reason and Demonstration of each Rule: Adorn'd with curious Copper-Cuts of the chief Tables and Titles. II. Merchant's Accompts, or a most concise Way of Casting up the Value of Merchandize, Tare and Trett, Interest of Coin, Rule of Barter, Loss and Gain, Fellowship, Equation of Payments, and several Matters relating to Exchange, never before made Publick. III. Book-Keeping, after a Plain, Easy, and Natural Method, shewing how to Enter, Post, Close and Balance an Accompt, and the whole Ledger, and how to discover from thence if any Error hath been in any one Accompt. IV. Maxims concerning Bills of Exchange, Factors and Factorage: The Law concerning Brokers, their Business, &c. V. The Port of Letters to and from Foreign Countries; and the Days when Mails are sent to, and due from those Countries. VI. An Account of the Commodities produced by all Countries: Their chief Towns of Trade, and Bigness of the Country compared with England. Vii. A Merchant or Trader's Dictionary, explaining the most difficult Terms used in Trade. The Value of Coins, Weights, and Measures. Viii. Precedents of Merchants Writings; as Bills of Lading, Invoices, Bills of Exchange, Letters of Credit, Charter-Parties; &c. With many other Things not extant before, as by the Table of Contents appears. Accomodated chiefly to the Practice of Merchants and Tradesmen: But is likewise useful for Schools, Banks, Diversion of Gentlemen, Business of Mechanicks, and Officers of the King's Custom and Excise. The ninth impression corrected and improved. By E. Hatton, Gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Some memoirs of the life of John Glover, late of Norwich: Intended to display the glory of God, by shewing his peculiar and gracious dealings with him both in grace and providence; and particularly setting forth how he was brought from resting in the form of religion, to experience the life and power of it in his soul: together with a declaration of the support and consolation it afforded him during many years of affliction. Written during that time, by himself. To which is added a sermon preached on the occasion of his death.
Glover, John, 1714-1774.Date: [1774]- Books
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The Antidotharius in the whiche thou mayst lerne howe thou shalt make many and dyvers noble plaesters, salves, oyntementes, powders, bawmes, oyles and wounde drynkes, the whiche be verye necessarye and behovefull, utyle and profytable for every Surgyan, therin to be experte, and redy at all tymes of nede.
Date: [1545?]- Books
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Palladio Londinensis; or, the London art of building. In three parts. I. Containing a demonstration of all the geometrical problems which are necessary to describe Squares, Circles, Ovals, Polygons, Arches, and Groins. The most approved Methods for Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, applied to the Measurement of all Sorts of Artificers Works concerned in Building. The Prices of the Labour and Materials of the several Kinds of Works performed by Diggers, Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Smiths, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Glasiers, Painters, and Paviours; with Directions for making an Estimate of the Expence of any Fabric, great or small. The Prices of all Sorts of Iron work; viz. Nails, and what each Sort ought to weigh. The Prices of Locks, Bolts, Hinges, Latches, &c. Axes, Hammers, Saws, Chizzles, Augers, &c. II. Containing plain and easy Directions for the Construction of the Five Orders of Architecture, with their several Pedestals, Columns, and Entablatures, accurately described; and a Parallel drawn between this and Mr. Gibbs's Method, and that of the Builder's Repository; shewing how the Orders are to be used over each other; with their Intercolumniations, &c. A large Variety of Frontispieces and Doors, suited to each Order; the Proportion of Windows, Piers for Gates, Obelisks, Block Cornices, with the Proportion of Rooms, Cieling-Pieces, Frets; also Chinese Lattice-Works for Pailings, Gates, Hatches, &c. An easy and entirely New Method of finding the exact Module or Diameter for the erecting Columns or Pilasters Three several Ways in a just Proportion. I. Arithmetically. 2. Geometrically, by Scale and Compass. 3. Inspectionally, by a Table; which shews, in Proportion to any Height given, the exact Diameter; also how to calculate the Diameter of the Orders, according to the Proportions laid down by Mr. Gibbs, or any other Author. And also the Method of Reducing any Module or Diameter (from 6 to 24 Inches) into Feet and Inches, by a New Inspectional Table; whereby the Trouble of dividing a Module into Minutes is avoided, and the whole performed by the common two Foot Rule. III. Copiously treating of the several kinds of staircases; the various Forms of their twisted Rails: Also the best Rules, with Variety of Examples, for Forming, Framing, and Trussing all Manner of Roofs for Buildings, Publick or Privatc, though the Plan be Square or Bevel. With a Collection of the Ground-Rules necessary to be observed in Architecture and Building. The Whole illustrated with Fifty-Four Copper-Plates. To which is annexed, The builder's dictionary. By William Salmon.
Salmon, William, approximately 1703-1779.Date: 1767- Books
A century of psychology as science / edited by Sigmund Koch & David E. Leary.
Date: 1992- Books
Men in nursing : history, challenges, and opportunities / edited by Chad E. O'Lynn and Russell E. Tranbarger.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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A discourse concerning the publick worship of God. Being an enquiry: first, concerning the nature of publick Christian worship; consider'd in both its parts, essential and circumstantial. Secondly, concerning the manner of its performance. Thirdly, concerning the liturgy of the Church of England; wherein is shewn, how well it answers the ends of publick devotions. By Henry Caner, A.M. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Caner, Henry, 1700-1792.Date: [1748]- Books
Paracelsus his Aurora, and Treasure of the Philosophers. As also the Water-stone of the wise men [by J.A. Siebmacher]; describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal tincture / Faithfully Englished. And published by J.H. Oxon [i.e. John Harding].
Paracelsus, 1493-1541.Date: 1659- Books
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Every man his own lawyer: or, a summary of the laws of England in a new and instructive method, under the following heads, viz. I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests, and Bail. II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c. III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, and how acquired, Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators. IV. Of the Laws relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks. V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and other Statutes. VI. Of the King and his Prerogative, the Queen, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of Peace, Constables, &c. Vii. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder, Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c. And their Punishment. All of them so plainly treated of, that all Manner of Persons may be particularly acquainted with our Laws and Statutes, concerning Civil and Criminal Affairs, and know how to defend Themselves and their Estates and Fortunes; In all Cases whatsoever.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]