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The duty of maintaining publick work-houses for employing the poor. A sermon preach'd in the parish-church of the Holy Trinity in Kingston upon hull. on Sunday, called Quinquagesima, February 20, 1725/6. By William Mason, M.A. vicar of the said church.
Mason, William, 1693 or 1694-1753.Date: [1726]- Books
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An essay upon gardening; containing a catalogue of exotic plants for the stoves and green-houses of the British gardens: the best method of planting the hot-house vine; With Directions for obtaining and preparing proper Earths and Compositions, to preserve Tender Exotics; Observations on the History of Gardening, and A Contrast of the Ancient with the Modern Taste. By Richard Steele, Late of Thirsk, but now of Sion Hill, near Thirsk, in the County of York.
Steele, Richard, active 1793.Date: 1800- Books
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The office and duty of high and petty constables, church-wardens, overseers of the poor, parish-watches, surveyors of high-ways, bridges and causeys, county treasurers, goalers and masters of houses of correction, in Ireland: collected from the books of common law, and the Acts of Parliament of force in this Kingdom to the end of the third Session of this present Parliament.
Date: 1720- Books
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The speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt, chancellor of the exchequer, on Friday, the 17th day of February 1792, on proposing the application of an additional sum for the reduction of the public debt, and the repeal of certain duties on malt, on female servants, on carts and waggons, on houses, and on candles.
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The most accurate abstract of the Act of Parliament, Passed 12th January, 1798, In the Thirty-Eighth Year George III. On the assessed taxes, viz. male servants, horses, carriages, houses, windows, dogs, clocks or watches: with The Exemptions, Abatements, Penalties, &c.
Great Britain.Date: 1798- Books
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A case of conscience, humbly put to the Worshipful and Reverend the Vice-Chancellor, the heads of houses, the fellows, &c. of the University of Oxford. Whether one may take the oaths to King George: and yet, consistently with honour, and conscience, and the fear of God, do all one can in favour of the Pretender?
Lewis, Edward, 1701-1784.Date: [1749?]- Books
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An address to the clergy of the Church of England: shewing The cause why so many People absent themselves from the pure established communion of that Church, to the tabernacle, meeting-houses, &c. Recommended to all true members of the reformed church.
Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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Monasticon Hibernicum; or, an history of the abbies, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland. Interspersed With Memoirs Of Their Several Founders And Benefactors, And Of Their Abbots And Other Superiours, To the Time of their Final Suppression. Likewise, An Account of the Manner in which the Possessions belonging to those Foundations were disposed of, and the Present State of their Ruins. Collected From English, Irish, and Foreign Historians, Records, and other Authentic Documents, and from many Curious and Valuable Manuscripts. With engravings Of The Several Religious And Military Habits. and a map Illustrating The History. By Mervyn Archdall, A. M. Member Of The Royal Irish Academy, And Chaplain To The Right Honourable Francis-Pifrpoint Lord Conyngham.
Archdall, Mervyn, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Various methods to prevent fires in houses and shipping, and for preserving the lives of people at fires, with an account of remarkable accidents by fire, in different Parts of the World, selected historically, for the space of One Hundred and Eight Years, to this present Period: Wherein The Negligence, of Architects and Builders, in constructing Buildings in Town and Country, is pointed out: and Shewing, That the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences is a public Benefit to those Commercial Islands. With Abstracts from the last Act of Parliament, to regulate Buildings, and prevent Fires in London. Necessary to be known in all Families, from the lowest Peasant to the highest Peer in the Realm. Approved by the Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The arthimetical and mathematical repository, Being a new improved system of practical arithmetic, in all its branches; designed for the use of schools, academies, counting-houses, and also for the benefit of private persons who have not the assistance of a teacher. In four volumes. By John Eadon, author of the Arithmetician's guide, and teacher of the mathematics in the free writing and grammar schools, Sheffield. Third edition. Volume I. In three books. Book I. Arithmetic of whole numbers, with their various applications to trade and mercantile business. II. Vulgar and decimal fractions, the explanation and use of logarithms, extraction of roots of all powers, applied to a variety of subjects. III. The strength and stress of timber, description and use of the sliding rule; practical geometry; mensuration of superficies and solids, by the pen and sliding rule; of standing timber, and all kinds of artificer's work; absolute, relative and specific weight of bodies, copiously exemplished. Also seventy promiscuous questions upon a variety of subjects, useful, instructing, and entertaining.
Eadon, John.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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The gallimaufry; or, budget of Momus: containing the tinker's song, and beggar's song, in the pantomime of Merry Sherwood. Prologue to The farce of Crotchet Lodge. The comic song of the waiter. The strolling player and the farmer, a Tale. Epilogue to speculation. Money is your friend, a comic song. A plague on both your houses. The poor old woman of eighty. Two new songs in the Farce of lock and key. The Dutch fisherman. Song, sung by Mr. Munden, in the Mysteries of the castle.
Date: [1796?]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after, sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1777- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: [1772?]- Books
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The Whold book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and bailads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1775?]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1774- Books
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Notitia monastica; or, an account of all the abbies, priories, and houses of friers, formerly in England and Wales. And also of all the colleges and hospitals founded before A.D. MDXL. By the Right Reverend Doctor Thomas Tanner, Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Published A.D. MDCCXLIV. by John Tanner, M.A. Vicar of Lowestoft in Suffolk, and Precentor of the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph. And now reprinted with many additions, by James Nasmith, M. A. Rector of Snalewell in Cambridgeshire, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable John Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1787- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternbold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1771- Books
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The usefulness of the stage to religion, and to government: shewing the advantage of the drama in all nations since its first institution. With an account of the rise and progress of the play-houses that were put down, and Remarks on all the Dramatick Pieces which have been Published and Played since the late Act of Parliament for Licencing the Stage, with the Reasons that Occasioned it. Also A Distinction between the Stage and the Press, and our present Written Plays and the Drama in its Purity, with Reflections on the Taste of the Times, as to Ballad Operas, Pantomines, Dumb Shew, Tumbling, Dancing, and Entertainments.
Date: [1738]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1798- Books
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The court and city register. For the year 1767. Containing, I. New and correct lists of both houses of Parliament. II. The court register. III. Lists of the army, navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Addition of several new Lists. Compiled by John Rivington.
Date: [1767]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, Collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms: Collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Conferred with the Hebrew. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermon; and more over in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort; laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1798