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Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774: wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption measures, are laid open to the plainest understandings; and the only means pointed out for preserving and securing our present happy constitution: in a letter to the farmers, and other inhabitants of North America in general, and to those of the province of New-York in particular. By a farmer. Hear me, for I will speak!
Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.Date: in the year M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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God's thoughts of peace in war. Published in these turbulent and trying times, for the consolation of the afflicted, and the awakening of the careless and profligate. Translated from the German of C.H. v. Bogatzky, author of The golden treasury for the children of God, whose treasure is in heaven.
Bogatzky, Carl Heinrich von, 1690-1774.Date: MDCCLIX [1759 i.e. 1780]- Books
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The speeches in the last session of the present Parliament, delivered by several of the principal advocates in the House of Commons, in favour of the rights of America. Viz. Governor Johnstone, Mr. Cruger, the Hon. Capt. Lutterell, Colonel Acland, the Hon. Henry Temple Lutterell, Mr. Hartley, the Marquis of Granby, son of the late magnanimous hero, John Manners, Marquis of Granby. With the speech of Mr. Edmund Burke, in favour of the Protestant dissenters, in the second Parliament of George the 3d.
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The Americans roused, in a cure for the spleen. Or Amusement for a winter's evening; being the substance of a conversation on the times, over a friendly tankard and pipe. Between Sharp, a country parson. Bumper, a country justice. Fillpot, an inn-keeper. Graveairs, a deacon. Trim, a barber. Brim, a Quaker. Puff, a late representative. Taken in short-hand, by Sir Roger de Coverly. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
De Coverly, Roger, Sir, 1728-1796.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The letters of the two commanders in chief; Generals Gage and Washington, and Major Generals Burgoyne and Lee; with the manifesto of General Washington to the inhabitants of Canada.
Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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A narrative of Sir Henry Clinton's co-operations with Sir Peter Parker, on the attack of Sullivan's Island, in South Carolina, in the year 1776. And with Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot, in an intended attempt against the French armaments at Rhode-Island, in 1780.
Clinton, Henry, Sir, 1738?-1795.Date: 1780?]- Books
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The congress canvassed: or, an examination into the conduct of the delegates, at their grand convention, held in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1774. Addressed, to the merchants of New-York. By A. W. farmer. Author of Free thoughts, &c. [Three lines in Latin from Cicero, with three line translation]
Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.Date: in the year M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Four letters to the Earl of Carlisle, from William Eden, Esq. On certain perversions of political reasoning; and on the nature, progress, and effect of party spirit and of parties. On the present circumstances of the war between Great Britain and the combined powers of France and Spain. On the public debts, on the public credit and on the means of raising supplies. On the representations of Ireland, respecting a free-trade.
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A new voyage, round the world, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; undertaken by order of his present Majesty, performed by, Captain James Cook, in the ship Endeavour, drawn up from his own journal, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. F.R.S. And published by the special direction of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty. By John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. and late director of the East-India Company. In two volumes: with cutts [sic] and a map of the whole navigation. ...
Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.Date: 1774- Books
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The devil upon two sticks, or The crippled devil. In French and English. In two volumes. ...
Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747.Date: --1795--- Books
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A letter from Thomas Lord Lyttelton, to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, on the Quebec Bill.
Meredith, William, Sir, -1725?-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV- Books
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The friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions: carefully abridged from the original. [One line of Scripture text]
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790.Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Letters written by the late Right Honourable Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late envoy extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her possession. In four volumes. ...
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Letters from General Washington, to several of his friends in the year 1776. In which are set forth, a fairer and fuller view of American politicks, than ever yet transpired, or the public could be made acquainted with through any other channel. Together with the Reverend Mr. Jacob Duche's (late chaplain to the Congress) letter to Mr. Washington, and an answer to it, by Mr. John Parke, a lieutenant-colonel in Mr. Washington's army.
Date: in the year 1778- Books
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The eyes opened, or The Carolinians convinced, by an honourable and eloquent representative in the Congress of the United States, in the following well received and candid examination of the objections to His Excellency Governor Jay's late treaty with Great-Britain; and which has been ratified by President Washington, at the city of Philadelphia.
Smith, William, 1758-1812.Date: --1795--- Books
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Epistles domestic, confidential, and official, from General Washington, written about the commencement of the American contest, when he entered on the command of the Army of the United States. With an interesting series of his letters, particularly to the British admirals, Arbuthnot and Digby, to Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Guy Carleton, Marquis de la Fayette, &c. &c. To Benjamin Harrison, Esq. Speaker of the House of Delegates in Virginia, to Admiral the Count de Grasse, General Sullivan, respecting an attack of New-York; including many application and addresses presented to him with his answers: orders and instructions, on important occasions, to his aids de camp, &c. &c. &c. None of which have been printed in the two volumes published a few months ago.
Date: M,DCC,XCVI. [1796] (Copy right secured)