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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Brigantine Triumph, Benjamin Northam, Master. James Graham, of London, Merchant, the Agent for, and Correspondent of, Thomas Ogden and Titus Ogden, and Messieurs John Wright Stanly, Wright Stanly, and James Green, Merchants, all of the Town of Newborn, in the State of North Carolina, one of the United States of America, and Subjects of the said United States, the sole Owners of the said Brigantine and her Cargo at the Time she was taken and seized as Prize, on the twenty-eighth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Degrees of Northern Latitude, twenty-five Days after the Cessation of Hostilities between his Majesty and the said United States of America, in the said Atlantic Ocean, and Claimant of the said Brigantine and her Cargo on Behalf of the said Owners, Appellant. William Swiney, Esquire, Commander of his Majesty's Ship of War the Assurance, the Captor, and James Heseltine, Esquire, his Majesty's Procurator General, - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of East Florida. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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The new universal geographical grammar: wherein the situation and extent of the several countries are laid down according to the most exact geographical observations, and the history of all the different kingdoms of the world, is interspersed in such a manner, as to render the study of geography both useful and entertaining. Under these three Heads: I. A Compendious System of Astronomy. II. The Geographical Definitions, Problems, and General Divisions of the Earth, necessary to be understood as an Introduction to this Grammar. III. A particular description of the Countries contained in each quarter of the World; their Cities, chief Towns, respective forms of Government, Forces, Revenues, Taxes, and History. Together with An Account of the Air, Soil, Produce, Traffic, Curiosities, Arms, Religion, Language, Universities, Bishoprics, Manners, Customs, Habits, and Coins, in use in the several Kingdoms and States treated of. Illustrated with a New and Correct Set of Maps of the Countries Described. The whole being an improvement and continuation of Mr. Salmon's grammar. Brought down to the present time by J. Tytler.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Observations on the state and condition of the poor, under the institution, for their relief, in the city of Dublin; together with the state of the fund, &c. published by order of the Corporation, instituted for the relief of the poor, and for punishing vagabonds and sturd beggars, in the county of the city of Dublin, March 25th, 1775.
Corporation for the Relief of the Poor, and for Punishing Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars in the County of the City of Dublin.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The American geography; or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A Concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With A Particular Description Of AtKentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To Which IS Added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with two sheet maps - One Of At The Southern, The Other Of At The Northern States. - From The Latest Surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Irish state-lottery, 1799. Begins Drawing July 23. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -10,000 is -30,000 3 - 5,000 - 15,000 4 - 2,000 - 8,000 5 - 1,000 - 5,000 10 - 500 - 5,000 30 - 100 - 3,000 60 - 50 - 3,000 8,000 - 10 - 80,000 8,115 Prizes 149,000 First-Drawn Ticket - - 500 First-Drawn Ticket last Morning - 500 21,885 Blanks 30,000 Tickets -150,000 Part of the Capital Prizes will be determined as follows: First-Drawn Ticket 19th Day - - -2,000 First-Drawn Ticket 21st Day - - 5,000 First-Drawn Ticket 23d Day - - 10,000 Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the Old State Lottery Offices of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at the house of James Thomson, Bookseller, Manchester. Country Correspondents, by remitting Bank Notes, Post-Office Orders, or Cash, may have Tickets and Shares sent them, and their Orders complied with, the same as if present. Tickets and Shares Registered, to send the earliest Intelligence of their Fate to any Part of the World. Letters, if Post-Paid, duly answered.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Books
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Moses's - sine principio: represented by names, by words, by types, by emblems. With an introduction, shewing the nature of body and soul, The First State of Man, The Quality of his Crime, His Condition after his Fall, His State under the Second Covenant. That By Reason of Man's Nature, and of his Fall, Persons, Things, and Actions, Were represented by Substitutes, Types, and Emblems: Before and particularly after the Fall; The taking of Man into the Essence, Purification, Sacrifice, Attonement, &c. Which were Observ'd by All. Believers and Apostates, Misapply'd by Gentiles, afterwards by Jews. By J. H.
Hutchinson, John, 1674-1737.Date: in the Year MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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English state-lottery, 1794. Begins Drawing February 16, 1795. The Scheme of the present Lottery being entirely different from any former one, - Ten Thousand tickets less, - The Public are requested to observe, that Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (the usual Amount of the Prize-Money) is divided amongst 40,000, instead of 50,000 Tickets, and that there are more Prizes than Blanks in this Lottery, when, in most former ones, there have been from Two to Three Blanks to a Prize. And divided into Half, Fourth, Eighth, and Sixteenth, shares, At their Licensed State-Lottery Offices, No. 104, Bank-Buildings, Cornhill, and No. 8, opposite the King's Mews, Charing-Cross.
Richardson, Goodluck, and Co.Date: 1794]- Books
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The state of the charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex, and that part of Hertfordshire which is within the diocese of London, as it stood at the court of audit, holden at Chelmsford, on Tuesday the 13th day of August, 1799, and by adjournment to Tuesday the 13th of October following. - Subscriptions and Donations to this Charity are received by Messrs. Goslings, Bankers, Fleet-Street, London; And by R. C. Stanes, Printer, Chelmsford.
Charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex.Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
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A candid state of affairs relative to East India shipping; with an appendix; containing, propositions to reconcile the several contending interests of those concerned in that Branch; and to promote future Harmony in Leadenhall Street. Addressed to the proprietors. The second edition. By Sir Richard Hotham.
Hotham, Richard, Sir.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Books
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The state of the charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex, and that part of Hertfordshire which is within the diocese of London; as it stood at the court of audit, holden at Chelmsford, on Tuesday the 14th day of August, 1798, and by adjournment on Tuesday the 2d day of October following. Contributions. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, President, - 10 10 0 Sir William Scott, Knt. Chancellor of the Diocese of London, 2 2 0 The Worshipful Doctor Swabey, Commissary, : - - - - - - : 1 1 0 13 13 0 Subscriptions and Donations to this charity, Are received by Messrs. Goslings, Bankers, Fleet-Street London; and R. C. Stanes, Printer, Chelmsford.
Charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex.Date: 1799- Books
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A brief survey of the terraqueous globe: containing, I. The description and use of the globes. II. The construction and use of maps. III. Geography; Or, a short view of the Ancient and Modern State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Exhibiting, 1. The Description of the Solar System, and particularly of the Earth considered as a Planet. 2. The Situation-Extent-Boundaries and Divisions of the various Countries. 3. Chief Towns-Mountains - Rivers - Climate, and Produce. 4. Government-Revenues-Commerce-Sea, and Land Forces. 5. Religion-Language-Literature Customs, and Manners of the different Nations. 6. A View of Ancient Geography, with an Explanation of the names. Written originally by John Mair, A.M. and now republished, with great additions, Amendments, and Improvements, Illustrated with maps of the Ancient and Modern Worlds, and the Four Quarters, engrave by T. Kitchen.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The principles of Christianity, as taught in scripture: being seven discourses on our lost state in Adam, our recovery by Jesus Christ, and the necessity of regeneration and sanctification by the Holy Ghost. To which is prefixed, a letter to a clergyman. By Thomas Bowman, M. A. Vicar of Martham, Norfolk.
Bowman, Thomas.Date: 1764- Books
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State lottery for 1774. The Tickets and Shares of Tickets, The chances of tickets and shares of chances, Are now Selling, in great Variety of Numbers, by, W. Hodges & Co. At their Old Office in Pall-Mall, near the Hay-Market, At their Office, No. 63, New Bond-Street, near Oxford-Street, At their Office, No. 46, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, At their Office, No, 144, in the Minories, and at Their Office, No. 43, in Bishopsgate-Street, Without London. No Deduction whatsoever will be made from the Prizes at the above Offices; and the shares examined gratis. Prizes sold by the above Proprietors, viz. Lottery 1770. -. No. 7,836 a Prize of 5,000 32,519 - 2,000 43,649 - 1,000 31,241 - 1,000 Lottery 1771. -. No. 25,872 a Prize of 5,000 30,432 - 2,000 44,187 - 2,000 6,872 - 2,000 Lottery 1772. -. No. 50,066 a Prize of 10,000 11,413 - 5,000 3,343 - 5,000 23,035 - 2,000 And several other Capital Prizes too numerous to insert here. Scheme of the Lottery. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 2 of 20,000 is 40,000 4 - 10,000 - 40,000 5 - 5,000 - 25,000 10 - 2,000 - 20,000 20 - 1,000 - 20,000 40 - 500 - 20,000 180 - 100 - 18,000 600 - 50 - 30,000 19,150 - 20 - 383,000 20,011 Prizes First drawn for the first three Days Drawing, 1,000l. each, 3,000 Last Drawn, - 1,000 39,989 Blanks. 60,000 600,000 Prices of Tickets and Shares. - s. d. A Ticket Half Quarter Eighth Sixteenth Thirty-2d Sixty-4th Prices of Chances and Shares of Chances -. s. d. A Chance Half ditto Quarter ditto Eighth ditto Sixteenth do. Thirty-2d do. Not Two Blanks to a Prize. Country Orders strictly obeyed; and every Thing relative to the Lottery transacted with Fidelity. Schemes Gratis. Tickets Registered. Correct Numerical Books kept. The Lottery begins drawing the 14th of November. Tickets and Shares insured from Blanks during the Drawing.
W. Hodges & Co.Date: 1773]- Books
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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]- Books
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Observations, on the present state of the south level of the fens, with a proposed method, For the better drainage of that country, made by the desire of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Townsend, master general of the Ordnance, and the Honourable the Corporation of Bedford Level. By Lieut. Page, (now Sir Thomas Hyde Page, knt.) of the corps of engineers.
Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821.Date: Reprinted in MDCCXCIII, [1793]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Vrouw Eleanora, Teunis de Boer, Master. The said Teunis De Boer, Claimant of 227 Pipes Holland Proof Brandy, on board the said Ship at the Capture, for and on behalf of Hendrick Berghaus of Amsterdam, Merchant, a Subject of the States General of the United Provinces, the sole Owner and Proprietor thereof, - - - Appellant. Tristram Hillman, Commander of the Private Ship of War Maidstone, the Captor, - - - Respondent. On an Appeal from Minorca. The Appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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One view of human life taken, and reconciled by a prospect of heaven; Together with an Attempt towards the Right Direction of our Conduct for the Attainment of that Certain, Glorious, and Happy State. By Hugh Ferguson.
Ferguson, Hugh, clergyman.Date: [1743?]- Books
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The Baptist annual register, for 1794, 1795, 1796 - 1797, including sketches of the state of religion among different denominations of good men at home and abroad. By John Rippon, D.D.
Rippon, John, 1751-1836.Date: [1797?]- Books
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Hand bills, following an Advertisement in the News-Papers, having been circulated, stating Distances, Prices of Carriage, &c. for a New Canal Undertaking, and comparing them with the Price of Carriage paid upon the present Canals. - ----That the Public might not be deceived by spurious Productions, the following is a true State of Facts; the Calculation on the New Scheme is taken from one in Mr. Pratt's own Hand-Writing.
Date: 1785]- Books
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A True state of the case; in referrence to the right of the corporation of Trinity-House to the Ballast-Office.
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A report of the present state of the Great Level of the fens, called Bedford-Level, and of the port of Lynn; and of the Rivers Ouse and Nean, the two great sewers of that country. With considerations on the scheme propos'd by the Corporation of Lynn for draining the said fens, and reinstating that harbour. Also a *scheme humbly propos'd for the effectual draining those fens, and reinstating that harbour or port: from a survey thereof made in August, 1724. by Mr. Charles Bridgman.
Bridgeman, Charles, -1738.Date: 1724]- Books
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The 11th of February, 1799, The English Lottery begins Drawing. English Lottery, 1798. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -20,000 is -60,000 4 - 10,000 - 40,000 5 - 5,000 - 25,000 5 - 2,000 - 10,000 10 - 1,000 - 10,000 15 - 500 - 7,500 30 - 100 - 3,000 100 - 50 - 5,000 16,900 - 20 - 338,000 17,072 Prizes 498,500 First-Drawn Blank First Day 1,000 First-Drawn Blank Last Day 500 32,928 Blanks 50,000 Tickets -500,000 Not two Blanks to a Prize. The following Captial Prizes Have lately been sold and shared at T. Bish's office. No. 24,206 a Prize of 30,000 Pounds 279 -- 20,000 Pounds 7,108 -- 20,000 Pounds 10,296 -- 20,000 Pounds 17,256 -- 20,000 pounds 30,342 -- 20,000 Pounds 34,512 -- 20,000 Pounds 34,800 -- 20,000 Pounds 40,196 -- 20,000 Pounds 124 -- 10,000 Pounds 3,685 -- 10,000 Pounds 5,257 -- 10,000 Pounds 7,940 -- 10,000 Pounds 10,136 -- 10,000 Pounds 18,795 -- 10,000 Pounds 23,876 -- 10,000 Pounds 24,270 -- 10,000 Pounds 36,374 -- 10,000 Pounds 49,591 -- 10,000 Pounds Besides Prizes of -5,000, -2,000, -1,000, -500, &c. Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the old State Lottery Office of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at James Thomson's, Bookseller, Manchester.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Late Learned Antiquarian, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Esq; and of some other collections of books lately purchased; Which will begin to be sold by auction, on Monday the 21st of November 1768, in the auction-room below Balfour's Coffee-house. Among which are, folio. Rymer's f̂D oedera, 10 vols Rapin and Tindal, 5 vols Ancient and Mod. univ. hist. 27 vols Biographia Britannica, 7 vols Anderson's diplomata general dictionary, 10 vols The ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, 2 vols Campbell's Vitruvius Britan. 2 vols, fine plates Stephani thesaurus ling. Gr. 4 vols - thesaurus ling. Lat. 4 vols Thucydides, Duckeri Herodotus, Wesselingii, Gr. et Lat. Dionis cassii opera, reimarii, 2 vols Po ̈ etæ græci princip. apud steph. Plinius, Harduini, 3 vols Lucianus, Bourdelotii Dictionaire de Bayle, meil. ed. 4 vols - de Savary 3 v. meil. ed. - de Furetiere, 4 vols - de Moreri, 4 vols Virgilius de la Cerda, 3 vols Madox's history of the exchequer Alberti Sebæ hist. nat. 4 vols Atlas universel, par Robert, G.P. hist. des arts et metiers, 36 parties encyclopedie, par d'alembert, &c. 25 vols Horsley's Britan, Roman. Harris's voyages, 2 vols Bacon, Boyle, and Locke's works Johnson, Savary, Ainsworth, Chambers, Millar, and Bayle's dict. Kniphossii herb. vivum cent. octo. 2 vols state trials, 10 vols Macdowall's institutes 3 vols, L.P. and all the other Scots law-books. Spelmanni gloslarium, edit. opt. Mariana's history of Spain originis opera, Gr. & Lat 4 vols biblia polyglotta, cum lexicon heptaglotton, 8 vols critici sacri, 10 vols Calvini opera, edit. opt. 9 vols Socinus, Crellius, &c. 9 vols (Vide next page.) Time of sale from four to eight. Catalougues to be had at the shop of A. Kincaid and J. Bell.
A. Kincaid and J. Bell (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A system of rhetorick, in a method entirely new. Containing all the tropes and figures, necessary to illustrate the classicks, both Poetical and Historical. For the Use of Schools. By John Sterling, M.A. To which is added, The art of rhetorick made easy: or the elements of oratory, Briefly stated, and fitted for the Practice of the Studious Youth of Great - Britain and Ireland: Illustrated with proper Examples to each Figure, and a Collection of Speeches from the best English Authors. By John Holmes.
Stirling, John, -1777.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]