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Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into English prose, As near the Original as the different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages will allow. with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical Notes, in English, from the best Commentators, both Ancient and Modern; beside a great Number of Notes intirely New. For the Use of Schools, as Well as Private Gentlemen.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.Date: 1797- Pictures
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Island of Chios (Scio, Khio): a well in a garden. Etching by J. Dambrun after J.B. Hilair.
Hilair, Jean-Baptiste, 1753-approximately 1822Date: 1782Reference: 22789i- Books
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A week's preparation towards a worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper, after the warning of the Church for the celebration of the Holy Communion: Consisting of Meditations and Prayers for every Day in the Week. With Directions to live well after receiving the Holy Sacrament. The Fifty First Edition. Corrected throughout and enlarged by a Clergyman of London.
Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, or the plague, with the methods to be used to prevent it, As well by the Diligence of the Civil Magi strate, in the Execution of his Office, as by the Care, and Caution, of every particular Person. In Two Parts. By R. Mead M. D. F. R. S. N. B. The Doctor, who is deservedly esteem'd One of the ablest Physicians in London, undertook the Writing of this Discourse, at the Desire of their Excellencies, the Lords Justices of Great-Britain, signified to him, by Mr. Secretary Craggs, to whom he address'd it, in a Dedication, dated Nov. 29. 1720.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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A new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow. With the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes, in English, from the best commentators, both ancient and modern; beside a great number of notes entirely new. Published by the king's authority. For the use of schools as well as of private gentlemen.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The Christian's defence against the fears of death. With seasonable directions how to prepare our selves to die well. Written originally in French by the Late Reverend Divine of the Protestant Church of Paris, Char. Drelincourt. Translated into English by Marius D'Assigny, B.D. The sixth edition newly corrected: with an account of the author, and his last minutes.
Drelincourt, Charles, 1595-1669.Date: 1709- Books
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Linguae latinae liber dictionarius quadripartitus. Dr. Adam Littleton's Latin dictionary, in four parts: I. An English-Latin. II. A Latin-Classical. III. A Latin-proper. IV. A Latin-barbarous. Representing I. The English words and phrases before the Latin; among which latter, no word or expression is to be admitted, but what is classic, and of an approv'd authority. II. The Latin classic before the English; wherein care is taken, that the proper and original signification of each word is first set down, which is followed by those that are derivative, metaphorical or remote. III. The Latin-proper names of those persons, people or countries that frequently occur, or are any way remarkable in classic authors, with explications from their several languages, and a short account of them historical and geographical. IV. 1. The Latin barbarous, explaining as well such technical words or terms of art, as are made necessary to us by the many inventions and discoveries not known to the ancients, as those which crept into the Latin tongue during the ignorance and darkness of the Middle Ages. 2. The law-Latin, comprehending those words, which are made use of by the common lawyers in their particular profession; very necessary for the understanding of charters, &c. The fifth edition. Improved from the several works of Stephens, Cooper, Holyoke, and a large ms. in three volumes of John Milton, &c. In the use of all which, for greater exactness, recourse has always been had to the authors themselves. With two maps; one of Italy, another of old Rome.
Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.Date: M,DCC,XXIII. [1723]- Books
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A new translation of Ovid's epistles into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow. With the Latin text and Order of Construction in the opposite page; and critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical notes, in English, from the best Commentators both Ancient and Modern, beside a very great Number of Notes entirely New. Published by the King's authority. For the use of schools, as well as of private gentlemen.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.Date: [illegible] [1767]- Books
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The general gazetter: or, Compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, bounds, and natural productions of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearing and distances in English miles from remarkable places; as also, the sieges they have undergone, and the battles that have been fought near them, down to this present year. Including an authentic account of the counties, cities, and market-towns in England and Wales; as also the villages with fairs, the days on which they are kept according to the new stile; as well as the cattle, goods, and merchandizes that are sold thereat. By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Pegiama or The vertues of, and way how to use the minerall and medicinall-water at Peterhead in Scotland : within the shire of Aberdene: whose latitude is 57. degrees 43. minuts: longitude 22. degrees 40. minuts. This being the compend of a peece, written anno 1636. by A. M. the student, now M.D. & P. in A. R. Aberdon.
Mure, Andrew, M.DDate: Anno 1668- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Notebook
D-, F. B. M., fl.1676Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.MSL.19- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with others concerning B. Müller-Hill, (trans. G.R. Fraser), Murderous Science.
Date: 1989-1992Reference: PP/GRF/J.22Part of: Fraser, George Robert (1932-)- Pictures
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Astrakhan: the harbour and the fortifications as well as an indigenous fish and a heron. Etching by B. M.
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A new grammar of the Latin tongue. Or, a rational, short comprehensive, and plain method of teaching that language. Freed from The many Obscurities, Defects, Superfluities, and Errors, which render the Common Grammar an insufferable Impediment to the Progress of Education. Commodiously contrived, As well for initiating Learners, as for the Convenience of those who through Disuse may have partly lost their Latin. To which is added, a vocabulary, and practical apparatus for Latin composition. By John Holmes, late Master of the Publick Grammar School in Holt, Norfolk.
A. B.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians which is accompanied with several instruments relating to the glorious design of propagating our holy religion, in the Eastern as well as the Western, Indies. An entertainment which they that are waiting for the kingdom of God will receive as good news from a far country. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1721- Books
Consumption, population, and sustainability : perspectives from science and religion / edited by Audrey R. Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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A physical nosonomy: or, A new and true description of the law of God (called nature) in the body of man : confuting by manifest and manifold experiences of many learned men, as well as the authors, the rules and methods concerning sicknesses and changes in mans body, delivered by the antient physicians, and moderns that followed them: shevving also what the order and method of nature is, as well as what it is not: with a full and fair examination of their causes, inwardly detected, by manifold dissections; and outwardly, by symptoms, and philosophical demonstrations: with their differences, and prognosticks, methods and medicines, curing them; verified by experience and reason. Set forth, I. In a monitory proæmium; wherein be reasons for, and experiences in the stars, influencing upon, and altering our bodies ... IV. In a treatise of dropsies. Also, in the second part of this book is a practice of physick, ... By William Drage, Med. & Philos. at Hitchin in Hartfordshire.
Drage, William, 1637?-1669Date: 1665- Books
Scarbroughs spagyrical anatomizer dissected. Or An answer to all that Dr. Tonstal hath objected in his book against Scarbrough Spaw. : The innocency and excellency of that spaw is further asserted. 1. Concerning the rise and growth of the art of physick. 2. Touching the causes of the petrifying property that is in some springs, and more especially that of the dropping well at Knaresbrough. 3. About the signs, symptomes and cures of diseases. As also reflections upon a late piece, called a Vindication of hydrologia chymica. / By Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick.
Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.Date: Anno Dom. 1672- Books
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Poems on several occasions, from genuine manuscripts of Dean Swift, Mr. H----m, Mr. C----r, Mr. G----r, Mr. S---b---p, Mr. K---dd---e, &c. &c. Containing, Advice to Mr. L-gg-n, the Fan Painter at Tunbridge Wells, a Satire, the Second Edition with the Additions never before printed. Verses, occasioned by ditto. A Fable inscribed to the Right Hon. Lady Mary T-ft-n. The Storm. A Dialogue at Tunbridge Wells. Verses at Mereworth, the Seat of the Earl of Westmorland. The Universal Laugh. Chloe to M-rr-t by the E- of C-d. On Miss B-ks and Miss H-w. On Miss S- and Miss C- The Battle of the Hoops. Songs, Riddles, &c. &c.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1749- Books
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The works of Horace, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow. With the Latin text and order of construction in the opposite page, and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical notes, in English; from the best commentators both ancient and modern, with a great many Notes entirely New. And A Preface to each Ode, Satire, and Epistle, illustrating their Difficulties, and shewing their several Ornaments and Design. For the Use of Schools as well as of Private Gentlemen. In two volumes.
Horace.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The poor man's help, and young man's guide. Containing I. Doctrinal instructions for the Right Informing of his Judgment. II. Practical directions for the General Course of Life. III. Particular advice for the well-managing of every Day. With Reference to his I. Natural Actions. II. Civil Employments. III. Necessary Recreations. IV. Religious Duties unto which are added, principles of religion, useful to be known, believ'd, and practis'd, by such as desire to Receive the Holy Communion with Benefit and Comfort. With Forms of prayer for Families and Single Persons. Also divine hymns on several Occasions. By William Burkitt, M. A. of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge, late Vicar of Dedham in Essex.
Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Archives and manuscripts
Radford, Drs Maitland and Muriel
Radford, Maitland (b.1885 - d.1944)Date: 1894-1986Reference: PP/RAD- Books
Global health risk framework : governance for global health : workshop summary / Alison Mack, Megan R. Snair, and Eileen R. Choffnes, rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
Date: [2016]- Books
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An help and guide to Christian families: containing I. Doctrinal instructions for the Right Informing of their Judgments. II. Practical directions for the General Course of their Lives. III. Particular advice for the well-managing of every Day. With Reference to their I. Natural Actions. II. Civil Employments. III. Necessary Recreations. IV. Religious Duties. Unto which are added, principles of religion, useful to be known, believ'd, and practis'd, by such as desire to Receive the Holy Communion with Benefit and Comfort. With forms of prayer for Families and Single Persons. Also divine hymns on several occasions. By William Burkitt M.A. of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge, late Vicar of Dedham in Essex.
Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Pictures
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Foolish Sam, a mentally defective man in London. Etching by B. Nebot, ca. 1773.
Nebot, Balthasar, active 1737-1741.Date: [1804]Reference: 768429i