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A discourse, delivered in St. John's Church, in Portsmouth, Newhampshire, at the conferring the order of priesthood on the Rev. Robert Fowle, A.M. of Holderness. On the festival of St. Peter, 1791. By the Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D. Bishop of Connecticut. [Three line of Scripture texts]
Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The American preceptor; being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking. Designed for the use of schools. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. author of The young lady's accidence, and Child's companion. [One line of quotation] Published according to act of Congress.
Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817.Date: 1795- Books
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An eulogy on the Honourable James Bowdoin, Esq. L.L.D. late president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Who died at Boston, November 6, A.D. 1790. Delivered before the society, January 26, 1791, by John Lowell, one of the counsellors of the Academy.
Lowell, John, 1743-1802.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The Declaration of Independence; a poem: accompanied by odes, songs, &c. adapted to the day. [Two lines from Thomson] By a citizen of Boston.
Richards, George, 1755?-1814.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the work entitled Common sense.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the work entitled Common sense.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A valuable assistant to every man: or, The American clerk's magazine. Containing the most useful and necessary forms of writings, which commonly occur between man and man ... By Samuel Freeman, Esq; compiler of the Town officer, Probate auxiliary, and Massachusetts justice. Published according to act of Congress.
Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831.Date: --1795- Books
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Belisarius. By M. Marmontel, Member of the French Academy. [Two lines in Latin from Seneca]
Marmontel, Jean-François, 1723-1799.Date: 1796- Books
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The path to riches. An inquiry into the origin and use of money; and into the principles of stocks and banks. To which are subjoined some thoughts respecting a bank for the Commonwealth. By a citizen of Massachusetts. [Four lines of verse]
Sullivan, James, 1744-1808.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Horae lyricae. Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In three books. Sacred I. To devotion and piety. II. To virtue, honour, and friendship. III. To the memory of the dead. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Horace]
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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A treatise on the nature of influx: or, of the intercourse between the soul and body, which is supposed to be either by physical influx, or by spiritual influx, or by pre-established harmony. Translated from the Latin of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg. By the Rev. Thomas Hartley, D.D.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.Date: 1794- Books
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The family female physician: or, A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy. By Alexander Hamilton, M.D. Professor of midwifery in the university, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c.
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A discourse, on the subject of animation. Delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 11, 1792. By John Bartlett, A.M. [One line in Latin]
Bartlett, John, 1756?-1844.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The Columbian dictionary of the English language: in which many new words, peculiar to the United States, and many words of general use, not found in any other English dictionary, are inserted. ... To which is prefixed, a prosodial grammar, containing, a short dissertation on vowels and consonants. To the whole is added Heathen mythology: or A classical pronouncing dictionary. By Caleb Alexander, A.M. Author of "Virgil's works translated into literal English prose," &c. &c. and teacher of the English language. Published according to act of Congress.
Alexander, Caleb, 1755-1828.Date: --Aug. 1800- Books
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The young ladies' and gentlemen's spelling book: on a new and improved plan; containing a criterion of rightly spelling and pronouncing the English language: interspersed with many easy lessons, in reading, entertaining fables and collections of moral sentences. Intended for the use of common schools. By Caleb Alexander, A.M. ... (Published according to act of Congress.)
Alexander, Caleb, 1755-1828.Date: 1799- Books
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. To which is added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: --1797- Books
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. To which is added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: --1797- Books
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The design and blessedness of the Gospel. A sermon, delivered, May 23, 1792, at the ordination of the Rev. Willaim Emerson, to the care of the Congregational Church and Society in Harvard. By Ezra Ripley, A.M. Pastor of the church in Concord.
Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841.Date: MDCCXII. [i.e., 1792]- Books
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An inquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors on the human body : to which is added, a moral and physical thermometer / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Philadelphia.
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.Date: MDCCXC [1790]- Books
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The New pleasing instructor: or, Young lady's guide to virtue and happiness. Consisting of essays, relations, descriptions, epistles, dialogues, and poetry. Carefully extracted from the best modern authors. Designed principally for the use of female schools; but calculated for general instruction and amusement. By a lady.
Date: April, 1799- Books
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Principles and observations applied to the manufacture and inspection of pot and pearl ashes / by David Townsend ... ; published according to an act of Congress.
Townsend, David, inspector of pot and pearl ashes for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Date: MDCCXCIII [1793]- Books
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A discourse occasioned by the death of General George Washington. Delivered Dec. 29, 1799. By John Thornton Kirkland, Minister of the New South Church, Boston. To which is added, the valedictory address of the late president, to the people of the United States.
Kirkland, John Thornton, 1770-1840.Date: 1800- Books
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A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers: with a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences. By Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, one of th surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [One line in Latin from Tacitus]
Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.Date: June, 1797- Books
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Elements of geography: containing a concise and comprehensive view of that useful science, as divided into, 1. astronomical 2. physical, or natural 3. political geography. On a new plan. Adapted to the capacities of children and youth; and designed, from its cheapness, for a reading and classical book in common schools, and as a useful winter evening's entertainment for young people in private families. Illustrated with a neat map of the United States, and a beautiful chart of the whole world. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Minister of the congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts--author of the American universal geography, and of the American gazetteer. [Three lines from Backus]
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: Feb. 1798- Books
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The young lady's accidence: or, A short and easy introduction to English grammar. Designed, principally, for the use of young learners, more especially those of the fair sex, though proper for either. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. Author of The child's companion, and American preceptor. [Two lines of verse]
Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817.Date: 1796