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The New, general, and complete weekly magazine; or, Entertaining miscellany of literature, history travels, and amusements of the age; ... to which will be added, ... (every other week) a complete chronicle of events, ... For readers of every class and description.
Date: [1796]- Books
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God's revenge against murder and adultery; remarkably displayed in a variety of tragical histories, containing examples, historical and moral: The whole exceedingly Entertaining and Instructive; and very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions and irregular Appetites.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The travels and adventures of three princes of Sarendip. Intermixed with Eight Delightful and Entertaining Novels. Translated from the Persian into French, and from thence done into English. To which is added, Amazonta, or, The Politick Wife; a Novel. Adorn'd with cuts.
Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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The true Anti-Pamela: or, memoirs of Mr. James Parry, Late Organist of Ross in Herefordshire. In which are inserted, his amours with the celebrated Miss - of Monmouthshire. Written by himself. Interspers'd with many Curious and Entertaining Love-Letters which passed between them.
Parry, James, 1712-1770.Date: [1742]- Books
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Cleora: or, the fair inconstant. A recent and authentic history of the life and adventures of a celebrated lady of distinction, lately very eminent in High Life. Compiled from Genuine Materials; interspersed with Variety of Real and Entertaining Incidents; and executed by an impartial hand.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Insect architecture / [Anon].
Rennie, James, 1787-1867.Date: 1830- Books
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England's compleat jester, refin'd and improv'd: with the addition of eight new delightful and pleasant novels never before printed. And an excellent receipt to cure mad love. To which is yet farther added, many new and diverting letters, with their answers, Extreamly Comical and Entertaining.
Date: 1716- Books
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The Polite and pleasing instructor, or Entertaining museum; Consisting of select essays, tales, fables, visions & allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors: prefixed with rules for reading with elegance and propriety; to which is added a collection of letters and instructions for genteel correspondence.
Date: [1783]- Books
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A new book of cyphers, more compleat & regular than any ever publish'd. Wherein the whole alphabet (trvice over) Consisting of 600 Cyphers, is variously chang'd, interwoven & revers'd. Very Entertaining to ye Curious, & useful to all sorts of Artificers. By S. Sympson.
Sympson, Samuel.Date: [1750?]- Books
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Theodora and Didymus, or, the exemplification of pure love and vital religion. An heroic poem, in three cantos. With an appendix, consisting of a pindaric ode, For the Queen's Birth-Day, 1786; and poetical epistles, On various Moral and Entertaining Subjects; by Mrs. Mary Deverell, Gloucestershir.
Deverell, Mary, 1737?-Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The sentimental connoisseur: or, pleasing and entertaining novelist. Being an elegant and new assemblage of lively effusions of fancy, polite tales, Diverting Essays, Droll Adventures, Pleasing Stories, Entertaining Novels, Comic Characters, Facctious Histories, Affecting Examples, Striking Remarks, Pointed Satires, &c. &c. Entirely calculated to form in the Mind the most virtuous Sentiments: And Adapted to promote a love of Virtue and an abhorrence of Vice.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The New weekly novelist; or, Entertaining companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels. A work designed for instruction as well as entertainment, being calculated to convey a general knowledge of the world; and consisting of the most valuable and important, humourous and pleasant, entertaining and instructive romances, novels, fables, allegories, memoirs, adventures, histories, anecdotes, &c. Not to be found in any other work of the kind in English. The whole newly translated from the French, by Lewis Porney, Esq. late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry. Embellished with an elegant set of copper-plate prints, designed by the celebrated Mr. Dodd and the ingenious Mr. Dighton; and engraved in a superior style of excellence by those eminent artists, Messrs. Wells, How, and Mears.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Letters to Monsieur H*** concerning the most antient gods or kings of Egypt, and the antiquity of the first monarchs of Babylon and China. Intermixed With a great Number of Curious and Entertaining Particulars, describing the Origin of the several Deities among the Heathens. Translated from the French.
Révérend, Dominique, 1648-1734.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The ladies' diary: or woman's almanack for the year of our Lord 1772. Being the Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, And many Entertaining particulars: Designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex. The Sixty-Ninth Almanack Publish'd of this Kind.
Date: [1772]- Books
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The husband forced to be jealous: or, the good fortune of those women that have jealous husbands. Being the Secret History of several Noble Persons; avery Entertaining History, and founded on real Facts, and not the Result of an inventive Fancy, as many Books are. Translated from the French.
Date: [1765]- Books
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The ladies diary: or, the woman's almanack for the year of our Lord, 1713. Being the First Year after Leap-Year. Containing many Delightful and Entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted for the Use and Diversion of The Fair-Sex. Being the Tenth Almanack ever Publish'd of that kind.
Date: 1713- Books
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Microscopic observations; or, Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope, illustrated by thirty-three copper-plates, curiously engraved: whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow Compass; and Intermixed, occasionally, with many Entertaining and Instructive Discoveries and Observations in Natural History.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Micrographia restaurata: or, the copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope, reprinted and fully explained: whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow compass; and Intermixed, occasionally, with many Entertaining and Instructive Discoveries and Observations in Natural History.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The Hindoos / [Anon.].
St. John, James Augustus, 1795-1875.Date: 1834-35- Books
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History of British costume / [J.R. Planché].
Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880.Date: 1834- Books
Vegetable substances: materials of manufactures / [Anon].
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The faculties of birds / [Anon].
Rennie, James, 1787-1867Date: 1847- Books
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Insect transformations / [Anon].
Rennie, James, 1787-1867.Date: 1830- Books
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Vegetable substances used for the food of man / [Edwin Lankester].
Lankester, Edwin, 1814-1874.Date: 1832- Books
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The domestic habits of birds / [Anon].
Rennie, James, 1787-1867.Date: 1833