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Several essays in political arithmetick. By Sir William Petty, ... The fourth edition, corrected. To which are prefix'd, Memoirs of the author's life.
Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.Date: 1755- Books
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The husbandman's manual; Directing him how to improve the several actions of his calling, and the most usual occurrences of his life, to the Glory of God, and the benefit of his soul. The seventeenth edition. Written by a minister in the country for the use of his Parishioners.
Welchman, Edward, 1665-1739.Date: 1791- Books
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The young ladies school of arts. Containing, a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree japanning Shell-Work Gilding Painting Cosmetics Jellies Preserves Cakes Cordials Creams Jamms Pickles Candying Made Wines Clear Starching, &c. Also, a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs Hannah Robertson
Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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The queen=like closet, or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying, and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. / by Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1672- Books
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The treasurie of commodious conceites, and hidden secrets : Commonly called, The good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. : Meete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates. : Gathered out of sundry experiments lately practised by men of great knowledge.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1584..- Books
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The gentlewomans cabinet unlocked : Wherein is contained many excellent receipts for neat dressing of divers sorts of meats; as flesh and fish, with their proper sauces· Also directions for the best way of making pancakes, fritters, tansies, puddings, custards, cheesecakes. And such like fine knacks. And other delicate dishes, which are most frequently used in gentlemens houses.
Date: [1686-1688]- Books
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The accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1677- Books
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The treasurie of hidden secrets : Commonlie called, The good-husvviues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold: / gathered out of sundry experiments, latelie practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly inlarged, with divers necessarie physicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases, that most commonlie happen to men and women. Not impertinent for euery good huswife to vse in her house, amongst her owne famelie.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1596..- Books
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L. Junii Moderati Columellæ De re rustica libri duo. Et quædam excerpta ex ejusdem aliis libris, in adolescentulorum, infra diœcesin, apud Hibernos, ossoriensem degentium, agricolationis studiosorum, gratiam. Juxta exemplar Roberti Stephani.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.Date: 1732- Books
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Honor Samuel Adams, Esq. ... A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer. ... Thursday, the seventeenth day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the nineteenth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ...
Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1789-1794 : Adams)Date: [1794]- Books
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Impartial observations, to be considered on by the king, his ministers, and the people of Great Britain.
Impartiality.Date: 1763]- Books
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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1687- Books
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The new complete English farmer; or, the whole body of husbandry made perfectly easy. Containing what every farmer ought to know and practise, in all the various useful branches of husbandry. Comprehending, among all the several articles treated of in this work, full directions and instructions, under the following heads, viz. The cultivation and proper management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. The whole art and management of all the different kinds of grass, and of making hay. Full description of the different soils, and of manuring and ploughing land. Instructions respecting the farmer's stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows, and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Likewise several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method of rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chusing the best sort for breeding, and for curing all their disorders. Directions for breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with the choicest receipts to cure their several distempers. The whole management of bees, both for profit and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, pease, trees, hemp, and flax, &c. &c. &c. Together with other useful articles, too numerous to mention in this title page. The whole carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Hogg, farmer, near Lynn, in Norfolk. Assisted by several experienced gentlemen and farmers, who have made agriculture, &c. their particular study for many years. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Hogg, William.Date: [1780?]- Books
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A plea for pure and undefil'd religion: with an answer to some objections moved against it by a friend, in a letter to a friend. By John Glas.
Glas, John, 1695-1773.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. The third edition. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1682- Books
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The young w[o]man's companion; or the servant-maid's assistant; digested under the several heads hereinafter mentioned, Viz. I. A short Essay on the Benefits of Learning, &c. by way of Introduction. II. The Young Womans's Guide to the Knowledge of her Mother-Tongue. III. A compendious English Spelling Dictionary, peculiarly calculated for the present Undertaking. IV. An easy Introduction to the Art of Writing; with Rules of Life. V. Familar Letters on various Subjects. VI. The Young Woman's Guide to the Art of Numbers; with a great Variety of useful Tables. Vii. The compleat Market Woman; with proper Instructions to prevent the Purchaser from being imposed upon. Viii. The compleat Cook-Maid, Pastry-Cook, and Confectioner. IX. Advice to Sevants in general, with Respect to their Duty towards God, their Employers, and themselves, with additional Prayers and Hymns. And Lastly A compleat Table of the Contents. The whole compiled by Mary Johnson, For many Years a Superintendant of a Lady of Quality's Family in the City of York.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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Speculations on the state of Ireland: shewing the fatal causes of her misery, the evil influence under which she languishes, and the power thereof to reduce her to the last extreme of human wretchedness and woe.
Date: 1793- Books
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A proposal to prevent the price of corn from rising too high, or falling too low, by the means of granaries. By Thomas Prior, Esq;
Prior, Thomas, 1682?-1751.Date: 1741?]- Books
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The northern farmer: or select essays on agriculture; adapted to the soil and climate of the northern counties of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Stultus versus sapientem: in three letters to the fool, on subjects the most interesting. By Henry Fielding, Esq;
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: 1749- Books
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The present state of Ireland consider'd: In a letter to The Revd. Dean Swift. By a True Patriot.
True patriot.Date: Printed in the year, 1724- Books
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A deed, in addition to the articles or charter-party of the Social Annuity-Company of the city of Dublin.
Social Annuity Company (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1757- Books
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The husbandman's manual; directing him how to improve the several actions of his calling, and the most usual occurrences of his life, to the glory of God, and the benefit of his soul. The eighteenth edition. Written by a Minister in the country for the use of his parishioners.
Welchman, Edward, 1665-1739.Date: 1799- Books
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]