247 results filtered with: English letters - Early works to 1800
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The compleat letter writer: or, new and polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also, a variety of more elegant letters for examples, from the best modern Authors, on Business, duty, amusement, affection, Courtship, Love, Marriage, Friendship, &c. To which is prefix'd, directions for writing letters, in an easy and proper Manner. Also, a plain and compendious grammar of the English tongue. With Instructions how to address Persons of all Ranks, either in Writing or Discourse; and some necessary Orthographical Directions; With a Spelling Dictionary, Of such Words as are alike in Sound, but different in Sense. Very useful to the English Scholar. And at the End of the Prose, some elegant Poetical Epistles, And various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
Date: 1756- Books
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A Collection of miscellany letters, selected out of Mist's Weekly journal. The first volume.
Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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The second part of a literary correspondence, between the Bishop of Gloucester and a late professor of Oxford: Accurately Printed From an Authentic Copy. To which are added the notes of the first editor; with notes upon notes and remarks on the letters.
Warburton, William, 1698-1779.Date: 1766?]- Books
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Some choice sentences and practices of Emilia Geddie, daughter to John Geddie of Hilton in Falkland, in the Sheriffdom of Fife, from her infancy, to her death on the 2d of Feb. 1681. in the sixteenth year of her age. As they were gathered from her parents and other judicious persons.
Geddie, John.Date: 1717- Books
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The prisoner: or, Cruelty unmasked. In letters to a friend. By T. Smart.
Smart, Thomas, 1765-1840.Date: [1799]- Books
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A postscript to the six letters written in defence of Richard Hill, Esq. member for the county of Salop. Against the illiberal and unjust attack of the Burgess of Ludlow upon his parliamentary conduct, by a freeholder in more counties than one.
Freeholder in more counties than one.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Les delices du sentiment; or the passionate lovers: in a series of letters which have recently passed between two celebrated characters, Well known in Polite Life for their Virtues, Talents, and Accomplishments. With a translation from the originals. Written in cypher. Several of those Letters are entrusted to the Publisher, for the Satisfaction of those Readers who doubt their Authenticity.
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Letters on several subjects. By the late Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, Bart. To which is added, (translated by the same hand) A dialogue upon oratory: attributed to Quinctilian. Vol.II.
Melmoth, William, 1710?-1799.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons. In the Years 1705, &c. to 1717.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: [1735]- Books
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The British letter writer, Containing a great variety of useful letters. On various subjects.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Sermons.
Temple, Anthony, 1723-1795.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Variety: a collection of essays. Written in the year 1787.
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.Date: 1788- Books
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Five letters; viz. I. From her Royal Highness the late Princess Sophia, Electress Dutchess Dowager of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, to his Grace Thomas Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. II. From Sir Rowland Gwynne at Hanover, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Stamford. III. From the Queen to the late Princess Sophia of Brunswick and Lunenburgh. IV. From the Queen to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. V. From the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, relating to his coming over to England.
Date: [1714]- Books
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Friendship strikingly exhibited in a new light, In letters between Messrs. D. Henry and J. Nichols, managing proprietors of the gentleman's magazine, and D. Bond, late printer of that monthly miscellany. With an introductory narrative, notes, and observations.
Bond, D.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The reclaim'd libertine; or, The history of the Honourable Charles Belmont, Esq; and Miss Melvill. In a series of letters. In two volumes.
Rogers, Arthur.Date: MD CC LXIX. [1769]- Books
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Mr. Pope's literary correspondence. Volume the Fifth. With letters of Lord Bolingbroke. Lord Lansdowne. Sir Samuel Garth. Mrs. Eliza Justice. William Bromley, Esq; Pieces of Mr. Walsh.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Letters of Mr. Pope, and several eminent persons, from the year 1705 to 1735. Vol. I.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1735- Books
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Arches-Court law. Being Some late Proceedings therein, Argued and Adjudged. Containing Three remarkable Cases, viz. I. The Case of Mrs. Weld, who Libelled her Husband for Impotency. II. The Case of Mrs. Leeson and Lord Fitz-Maurice, Relating to a Marriage-Contract, these Two confirmed by the Delegates III. The famous Jew-Case, between Mr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa and Mrs. Catherine Da Costa Villa Real, Cousin-Germans, Relating to a Marriage-Contract.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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Letters of Tiberius Gracchus, written by John King, Esq. while in Ireland, in the Vice-Royship; of the Marquis of Buckingham, and in the months of February and March 1789. These letters appeared in most of the Irish papers, and particularly in the Hibernian journal.
King, John (Banker)Date: [1789?]- Books
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Filial indiscretions; or, the female chevalier. In three volumes. ...
Date: 1799- Books
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Letters between Theodosius and Constantia. By Dr. Langhorne. In two volumes.
Langhorne, John, 1735-1779.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Examinator's letters, or, a mirror por [sic], British monopolists and Irish financiers.
Date: 1786- Books
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Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. Together with many original poems and letters, of cotemporary [sic] writers. Never before published. In two volumes. ...
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI [1776]- Books
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The works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift, dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. In nineteen volumes. Containing I. His miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. Gulliver's travels. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and the drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and the examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the whigs, &c. and polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c. IX. Letters; the history of the last session of Parliament, and the peace of Utrecht, &c. X. Sermons, and other pieces. XI. Letters, &c. the author's life, and poems. XII. History of the four last years of Queen Anne's Reign; letters; and sermons, &c. Collected by Deane Swift, Esq. XIII. Letters to and from several very eminent person; poems on various occasions. Collected by Deane Swift, Esq. XIV. XV. and XVI. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. With notes by the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D.F.R.S. John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. and Mr. Thomas Wilkes. With many original pieces. XVII. XVIII. and XIX. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. Collected by Deane Swift, Esq. With several originals.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The entertaining amour of Sylvander and Sylvia, a Fashionable buck, and a Delicate Edinburgh belle. Contained in twenty-four genuine letters. Wrote in the Year 1766.
Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]