36 results filtered with: Anecdotes - Early works to 1800
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A sketch, by Old Hubert.
Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Colley Cibber's whimsical wager.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toys, &c. are added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Date: 1682- Books
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Yorick's jests: Being a new collection of jokes, witticisms, bons mots and anecdotes, of the genuine sons of wit and humour of the last and present age. Containing a great number of humorous, diverting, and entertaining jests and stories, never before published in a book of the kind. To which are added, a new and choice selection of poems, fables, tales, epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, rebuses, and enigmas; and a complete collection of the most fashionable and favourite toasts, sentiments, and hob nobs, now in vogue. The whole being intended as an antidote for the spleen, vapours, and melancholy.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bon mots, repartees, etc. To which is added, a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes.
Croft, John, 1732-1820.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The encyclopaedia of anecdote.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Addenda to anecdotes, &c. antient and modern. With observations. By James Pettit Andrews, F. A. S.
Andrews, James Pettit, 1737?-1797.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The philosophers banquet : Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many seuerall dishes, that in the former seruice were neglected. Where now not onely meats and drinks of all natures and kindes are serued in, but the natures and kindes of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration, and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effectes and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. The second edition, newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.
Date: 1614- Books
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The beauties of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, selected from the writings, &c. of that extraordinary man, alphabetically arranged. Including the following celebrated Political Characters, drawn by himself: Antoinette, late Queen of France Comte D'Artois Paul Benfield, Esq; M. Brissot Richard Burke, Esq; Late Earl of Chatham M. Condurcet Right Hon. Henry Dundas Hon. C. J. Fox George III. Lord Grenville Late Mr. Grenville Warren Hastings, Esq; Late Lord Keppel Sir Hercules Langrishe Louis XVI. Louis XVIII. Lord North Right Honourable William Pitt Marquis of Rockingham Charles Townsend Esq; John Wilkes, Esq; &c. &c. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life, with some original anecdotes of Mr. Burke. In two volumes. Vol. I.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.Date: 1798- Books
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Anecdotes, &c. antient & modern. With observations. By James Pettit Andrews, F.A.S.
Andrews, James Pettit, 1737?-1797.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A trip to Hamshire and Flanders: discovering the vile intrigues of the priests and jesuits, and the practice of Englad's bosome enemies. By William Fuller, gent.
Fuller, William, 1670-1733.Date: 1701