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A brief statement and declaration of the genuine principles of seceders, respecting civil government; the duty of subjects; and national reformation: and a vindication of their conduct in reference to some late plans and societies for political reform; And The Public Dissentions Of The Time. Proposed and read in a meeting of the General Associate Synod in Scotland. With an appendix, Containing an Account of the Synods Procedure on this Business. By A. Bruce, Minister of the Gospel, at Whitburn.
Bruce, Archibald, 1746-1816.Date: 1799- Books
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An answer to a pamphlet, intitled, The proceedings of the honourable House of Commons of Ireland, in rejecting the altered Money bill, on December 17, 1753, Vindicated, &c. So far, as the same relates to the argument of a pamphlet, intitled, Considerations on the late bill for payment of the remainder of the national debt, &c.
Robinson, Christopher, 1712 or 1713-Date: 1754- Books
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Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England: begun and held at Concord, in the county of Middlesex, upon Wednesday the thirtieth day of May, 1764; and from thence continued by sundry prorogations to Wednesday the ninth day of January following, and then met at Boston, in the county of Suffolk.
Massachusetts.Date: 1765- Books
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Corrupt parliaments. An extract from Alexander Scott's legacy to his country. (A scarce book) written Anno Domini, 1689. - Page 28.
Scott, Alexander, Republican.Date: [1795?]- Books
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The safety of the church under the present ministry consider'd, in a letter to - By a clergyman.
Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 1683 or 1684-1756.Date: [1715]- Books
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To the worthy freeholders and independent gentlemen farmers of the county of Middlesex. Gentlemen, consider in what manner ...
Freeholder.Date: 1768]- Books
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A short answer to the queries of the cobler and his patrons. Did your old member Lord John Cavendish behave most honourably to you, when in the House of Commons he declared he had instructions from his constituents in his pocket - but he should pay no regard to them? ...
Cordwainer.Date: 1784]- Books
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To the gentlemen, Clergy, & Freeholders, of the County of York. Gentlemen, as nothing could be more foreign to my wishes than to disturb the peace of this extensive county, with the Advice of my Friends I have relinquished the Contest. The Purity of my Motives, and my Disposition to serve you, were all I had to offer. The Support I have met with will be matter of Comfort and Consolation to me so long as I live. - --I retire, Gentlemen, my mind impressed with every Sentiment of Gratitude for your Support, and earnestly hoping that, on a future Opportunity, my Exertions on this Occasion, will not be forgotten. I am, Gentlemen, Your much obliged and devoted Servant, Walter Fawkes.
Fawkes, Walter, 1769-1825.Date: 1796]- Books
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The crisis, or an alarm to Britannia's true Protestant sons. In two parts, with an appendix to each of them. Containing. Among a Variety of other Things, An Address to King George. -To the Unbelieving Jews. -To our reverend Fathers the Bishops. -To our worthy Representatives. - To the licentious Writers of the public Papers. With a Prefatory Address to the two respectable Bodies, the Citizens and Merchants of London. By a disinterested, independent, and truly Protestant Briton.
Briton.Date: [1754]- Books
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An Interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England. Containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the city of London and dissenters.
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England: begun and held at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, upon Wednesday the twenty-seventh day of May, 1772.
Massachusetts.Date: 1772]- Books
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A rhapsody on the present system of French politics; on the projected invasion, and the means to defeat it. Illustrated with plans, on three copper plates. By - , a Chelsea pensioner.
Lloyd, Henry, approximately 1720-1783.Date: M,DCC,LXX,IX. [1779]- Books
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Correspondence. Letters between Frederic II. and M. Jordan. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Correspondence. Letters between Frederic II. and M. D'Alembert. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Correspondence. Letters between Frederic II. and M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Correspondence. Letters between Frederic II. and the Marquis D'Argens. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A new and compleat survey of London. In ten parts. I. All the publick transactions and memorable events, that have happened to the citizens, from its foundation, to the year 1742. II. A particular description of the thirteen wards on the East of Walbrook. III. Of the twelve wards on the West of Walbrook. IV. A political account of London; parallels between this and the most celebrated cities of antiquity, as well as the modern great cities of Europe, Asia and Africa. V. An historical account of the city governments, ecclesiastical, civil and military. VI. A full account of the great and extensive commerce of the city; and of the several incorporations of the arts and mysteries of the citizens. VII. Of the present state of learning in this city. VIII. History and antiquities of Westminster; its government, ecclesiastical and civil. IX. Of the several parishes and liberties in the county of Middlesex, within the bill of mortality. X. Of the borough of Southwark, and places contiguous in the county of Surry. In two volumes. By a citizen, and native of London.
Citizen, and native of London.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The trial at large of Louis XVI. Containing a complete and authentic narrative of every interesting and important circumstance attending the accusation - trial, defence, sentence - execution, &c. of that unfortunate monarch. Communicated in a series of letters by a membe of the late National Assembly, to a member of the British Parliament. To which is subjoined an impartial character of His Majesty, and a copy of his will.
Member of the late National Assembly.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The Following address from the county of Kent, was this day presented to Her Majesty by Sir Thomas Palmer bart. and David Polhill Esq; their representatives in Parliament, attended by several of the most considerable gentlemen of the said county; introduc'd by the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex: ...
Date: [1710]- Books
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The black box broke open. The Roguery's Discovered and Robin will be hang'd at last. In a letter from -P. - T. Esq; to his Friend in the Country.
P. T., Esq.Date: MDCCXXIX [i.e.1729]- Books
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A sermon preached in the cathedral-church of Exeter, on the general fast-day, February 6. 1756. By the Lord Bishop of Exeter. Published at the Request of the Rt. Worshipful the Mayor, and Chamber.
Lavington, George, 1684?-1762.Date: [1756]- Books
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Folly predominant; or, The town taken in. With the palpable deception, and frothy orations, of four public orators, three of which suddenly springing up like mushrooms, must as soon decay: to which is added, a dissertation upon the impossibility of curing lunatics in Bethlem, except with those that would amend of themselves under proper Government in any other Place: And why more Cures are not performed in other Hospitals. - Also, (in Compliment to the Ladies) another upon the Felicity of Matrimony. - Likewise, an humourous and diverting Raree-Show. With the four orators effigies, in folio, sketched from the life, annexed to it. By Peter Billings, M.D. And Sole Professor of the Cure of Lunatics, experimentally, by a new and gentle Method, and in the highest Degree of Madness, proceeding from Pride or Love; Hypocondriacs, or Hysterics, now in London, or in any other Part of the World; who may be heard of at Mr. Mark Noble's, Peruke-Maker, next Door to Mr. John Taylor's, Oculist, in Hatton-Garden.
Billings, Peter.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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[In] the House of Lords, the Honourable Andrew Foley, and Thomas Foley, an infant, by the said Andrew Foley his father and next friend - - - - - appellants. And John Grant, Robert Dallas, John Battye and John Burnell and Henry Kitchen, Esquires, late sheriff of the county of Middlesex, and the Honourable Edward Foley - - - - respondents. The case of the respondents John Grant, Robert Dallas, John Battye and John Burnell, and Henry Kitchen, late sheriff of Middlesex.
Grant, John, Esquire.Date: 1784]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
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