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A journey through part of England and Scotland along with the army under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Wherein the proceedings of the army, and the happy suppression of the rebellion in the year 1746. Are particularly described. As also, the natural history and antiquites of the several places passed through. Together with the manners and customs of the different people, especially of the highlanders. By a Volunteer. Comprised in several letters to a friend in London.
Volunteer.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Alefred's apology.
Withers, Philip, -1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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To the worthy and independent freemen of the city of Rochester, as various insinuations and assertions have been propagated to answer the purposes of a few envious, ambitious, and disappointed men. ...
Robinson, William, surgeon.Date: 1790]- Books
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Epitome of the annals of Great-Britain: or, a succinct, impartial history of England, from the remotest period of intelligence, to the conclusion of the last war. Containing A Satisfactory Account of every interesting Occurrence and memorable Character relative to English History, both at Home and Abroad. Particularly Its Origin; the Progress of its Empire; Laws; Civil and Religious Establishment; its various remarkable Operations, Naval and Military; with the Transactions of the most celebrated Personages who have distinguished themselves in a Political, Ecclesiastical, or Military Capacity. Interspersed with Cuts of all the Kings and Queens of England, from William the Conqueror to George III. inclusive. With An Introduction, on the Constitution of Great Britain. Useful for Youth at Schools, as well as all others who are desirous of retaining what they read of the History of their Country. By G. Grey.
Grey, G. (Gilbert).Date: 1773- Books
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Lambert, Mayor. Tuesday the second day of June, 1741. And in the fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, of Great Britain, &c. ...
City of London (England). Corporation. Court of Common Council.Date: 1741]- Books
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The history of the royal-oak, and her Three Branches.
Date: printed in the year, 1712- Books
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The fatal effects of the present rebellion exemplify'd in a true but melancholy account of the life and death of Mr. Sydenham, (son of the late Mr. Sydenham, Merchant in Bristol) whose untimely End was occasioned by the Arbitrary and cruel Treatment which he received from the Rebels, in their March from Manchester to Derby: Together with Some other authentic Instances of what the Country has suffered by the tyrannical Behaviour of the Pretender's Followers. In Two letters, From a Gentleman at Manchester, to his Friend in London.
L-r-nce, J-n.Date: [1745]- Books
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A modest argument, pro and con, enquiring into the cause why base and mean actions should be committed by the Irish in particular, more than any other nation.
W.Date: Printed in the year 1741- Books
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The proceedings and correspondence, relating to certain articles of accusation, which were exhibited under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, against the principal and resident surveyor, and the presidents of the Inland Office; founded on a conviction that the mismanagement of the inland department of the General Post-Office, among numerous other ill consequences, exposes its revenues to a waste exceeding one hundred thousand pounds sterling per annum. Including, also, a general representation of the partial and defective manner in which the business of the inland department has been conducted by those officers, ever since the abolition of the appointment of comptroller of the inland department, which took place in the year 1795. By Charles Bonnor, heretofore resident surveyor, and deputy comptroller general; and late comptroller of the inland department of the General Post-Office.
Bonner, Charles, -1829?Date: 1798- Books
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The house of Peeresses: or, female oratory. Containing the debates of several Peeresses on the Bishop of Landaff's Bill for the more effectual discouragement of the crime of adultery. Principal Speakers, Duchess of G-n, Countess Dowager of Hu-n, Lady Cr-n, Countess of D-th, Duchess Dowager of B-d, Lady G-r, Countess of N-t, Duchess of L-, Lady P-, Countess Dowager of H-n, &c. President, A****a Ba****ss C*****s, late Ma*******ss of C********n.
Barrington, Shute, 1734-1826.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The proceeding on the Queen's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery of Newgate, held for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey. On Wednesday, and Thursday, being the 13th and 14th days of October, 1703. And in the second year of Her Majesty's reign.
England and Wales. Sessions (City of London and County of Middlesex)Date: 1703- Books
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A detection of several misrepresentations of facts in Oldcastle's remarks on the English history, as they were published in the Craftsman, and of the Views with which those Misrepresentations were made. To which is prefixed An Enquiry into the Reasons of Success, in Sale, of all Scandalous Libels: And to which is added An Examination into the infamous Methods which the Craftsman has used to traduce the Character of his Prince, and the present Ministry, and to raise the Credit of his Paper.
Date: 1733- Books
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A tract of the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Illustrated with notes, and adapted to the present times. With an appendix containing some remarks on the conduct of a late court-martial.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.Date: [1755?]- Books
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The British empire in Europe: part the first, containing an account of the connection between the kingdoms of England and Ireland, previous to the year 1780. To which is prefixed an historical sketch of the state of rivalry between the kingdoms of England, and Scotland, in former times. By John Lewis de Lolme, ... The second and third parts contain accounts of the changes which have, since the year 1780, been effected in the constitution of Ireland, ...
Lolme, Jean Louis de, 1740-1806.Date: 1787- Books
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A plain, humble, and earnest address to Parliament, in behalf of the poor and lower orders of British subjects; with a view to obtain an universal liberty of petition, a rational reform of Parliament, and a necessary division of farms, forests, and commons.
Bentley, Thomas, active 1775-1819.Date: 1793]- Books
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The misscellaneous [sic] works of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. ...
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.Date: 1768- Books
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The state quacks, or the Political Botchers; being a description of the strange occurrences of the present times.
Date: [1715]- Books
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An address delivered to the second battalion of the Royal Lancashire Supplementary Militia, in Sunderland Barracks, in the county of Durham, on Friday the 20th day of July, 1798, being the day they received their colours. By the Rev. George Stephenson, M.A. chaplain to sunderland barracks, and late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Stephenson, George, 1758 or 1759-Date: 1798- Books
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A view of the present divisions in Great-Britain, by the leaders of parties, which may encourage a French invasion. With proposals to the Queen and Parliament for healing those divisions, in order to prevent our dangers from enemies at home and abroad. Wherein is maintain'd, that it is in the power, and ought to be the care and endeavour of our governors to suppress them; and that this may be done with the consent and to the satisfation of all honest English men of either party. By a true Britain.
True Britain.Date: 1708- Books
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Substance of the speeches of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, in the House of Lords, On April 5th, May 16th, 21st, and 23d, 1800, against the divorce bill.
William IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1765-1837.Date: 1800- Books
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The eight and twentieth account of the progress made in the cities of London and Westminster, and places adjacent, by the Societies for promoting a reformation of manners; by furthering the execution of the laws against prophaneness and immorality, and other Christian methods. ...
Societies for Reformation of Manners.Date: 1722?]- Books
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The following valuable books are printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, in the Strand. 1790.
A. Strahan and T. Cadell (Firm).Date: 1790]- Books
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The reports of the secret and select committees, Appointed by the Honourable the House of Commons, to enquire into the causes of the war in the Carnatic; and the state of the justice in the provinces of Bengal, Babar, and Orissa.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: [1782]- Books
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A long history of a certain Lord Lieutenant, of a certain kingdom, explaining the conduct of his administration, in a certain kingdom.
Date: [1772]- Books
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A message from the Lower-House of Convocation, to the Right Reverend the Lords Bishops of Ossory and Killaloe, delivered by the prolocutor, attended by his assessors, and several members of the House to the Lord Bishop of Killaloe, July the 17th, 1711.
Church of Ireland. Convocation.Date: 1711]