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A Trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The art of walking in St. James's park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with coffee-house politicians, exposed. A dissertation on the craft of the town-beggars, and the monstrous pride and insolencies of women-servants: the humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the day of execution. The horse-guards, prov'd to be better subjects, though worse soldiers than the foot-guards. A remarkable character of Sir Timothy Testy, knight. The real causes of the debaucheries practis'd upon the fair sex; shewing the true reasons why such infinite numbers of fine young creatures are daily forc'd into the service of the publick. People of fashion required to keep their young daughters out of their kitchens. A merry water-ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the miseries of that part of the town described; with some account of a tumult near King Edward's stairs, occasioned by a sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a chamber-pot from a two-pair of stairs window on a decay'd baronet's wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Books
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A political catechism.
Robinson, Robert, 1735-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The dissenters memorial: containing I. Their opinion of toleration. II. The fruits of a toleration III. Their Harmony among themselves. IV. Their Behaviour toward the Clergy, and Civil Government. V. The King's Murder Encourag'd and Justify'd. Collected from sermons and other pamphlets of their own, and Publish'd for the Information of All True Lovers of our Church and Constitution.
Date: 1711- Books
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A description of the environs of Ingleborough, and principal places on the banks of the river Wenning. Attempted by Thomas Dixon, of Bentham; Formerly belonging to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.
Dixon, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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On the duty of obedience to the laws, and of submission to magistrates. A sermon occasioned by the late disturbances in the north of Ireland, preached before the judges of assize in the Cathedral Church of Armagh, on Sunday, April 12, 1772. Published at the request of the high-sheriff and grand jury of the county of A[']magh. By the Reverend Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F.R.S. dean of Armagh.
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The children's miscellany. Ornamented with a frontispiece.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The maxims of government by which the several interests of the princes of Europe are managed. By Father Paul, the Servite Monk, and Counsellor of State to the Republick of Venice. Written by Publick Order. Done into English from the Italian.
Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Mithridates, King of Pontus. A tragedy. Written by Mr. Nat. Lee.
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Il re Teodoro in Venezia. A new comic opera, in two acts. As performed at the King's Theatre in the Hay-Market. The music entirely new, by the celebrated Signor Paisiello, under the direction of Mr. Mazzinghi.
Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Description de la véritable cavalcade en trois pieces, accompagnée de chars de triomphe, qui sera exécutée en partie par les écoliers du gouvernement, & en partie par les fideles subjets de l'état de Brabant, ...
Date: [1787]- Books
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Trial of Francis Bellew, Esq. youngest son of Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart. for appearing in arms, with a mob of defenders, on the 26th of December, 1792.
Bellew, Francis.Date: 1794- Books
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The mug vindicated: to which is prefix'd, an account of the rise, progress, and constitution, of those loyal societies. Being an answer to the popular Objections of the Faction against them, contain'd in Sir H. M's malicious and scurrilous libel, address'd to the Parliament, and entitul'd, Down with the mug, or reasons for suppressing the mughouses.
Whatley, Stephen, active 1712-1741.Date: [1717]- Books
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The lamentation of the poor of the city of Dublin, after the late Lord Mayor, with a word of advice to the freemen, &c. of said city.
Date: 1733- Books
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A careful nurse will diligently attend to advice; therefore it is hoped that those who have occasion for this remedy will pay strict attention to the following directions: The cases, when first applied, should sit so close to the nipples, that they will not drop off; therefore, if the holes are too small, they may be pared with a pen-knife to the proper size. For the recovery of milk, after loosing [sic] it for years, or regaining of lost nipples. ...
Edwards, J. V.Date: 1780?]- Books
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Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1790, respecting the Test Act. With a memorial on the same subject, by the committee appointed by that assembly.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1790]- Books
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Remarks upon education, with respect to the learned languages: shewing their importance to good literature, and a due cultivation of the human understanding. By the Rev. William Duke. Copy-right secured.
Duke, William, 1757-1840.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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Religion the most delightful employment: or, a treatise, evidently proving, that there is more pleasure and less trouble in an holy and religious, than in a vicious course of life. Containing Likewise, Several Directions necessary to be observed by all Christians, in order to their escaping the Pollutions of the World, and passing safe to Heaven through the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation. To which are Added, Some plain Rules for a Religious Society. And an Earnest Recommendation of the said Rules, Particularly Of the three great Duties of Family Prayer; of attending daily the publick Service of God's Church; and of frequenting the Holy Communion. With Devotions for the Closet and for the Family.
Bold, John, 1679-1751.Date: 1739- Books
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The works of Henry Fielding, Esq; with the life of the author. Vol. I.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A commentary upon the book of the Revelation. Wherein The Text is explained, the Series of the several Prophecies contained in that Book, deduced according to their Order and Dependance upon each other; The Periods and Succession of Times, at, or about which, these Prophecies, that are already fulfilled, began to be, and were more fully accomplished, fixed and applied according to History; And those that are yet to be fulfilled, modestly, and so far as is warrantable, enquired into. Together with Some practical Observations, and several Digressions, (an Index whereof is prefixed) necessary for vindicating, clearing, and confirming many weighty and important Truths. Delivered in several Lectures, by that Learned, Laborious, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. To which is affixed a brief Summary of the whole Revelation, with an Alphabetical Index of the chief and principal Purposes and Words contained in this Commentary. As also two sermons preached by the author, on Rev. xxii. 20. Together with a Collection of some memorable Things in his Life.
Durham, James, 1622-1658.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The history of modern Europe. With an account of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and a view of the progress of society. From the rise of the modern kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763. In a series of letters from a nobleman to his son. A new edition, carefully corrected. ...
Russell, William, 1741-1793.Date: 1789- Books
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Answers for the magistrates and town-council of the burgh of Paisley, and Robert Fulton, baillie and delegate for the said Burgh, to the petition and complaint of Sir Michael Stewart ... and William Cuningham ...
Paisley (Scotland)Date: 1760]- Books
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Poems on several occasions. By the late Mr John Gay. In two volumes. ...
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Dēmosthenous logoi eklektoi. = Demosthenis selectæ orationes. Ad codices Mss. recensuit, textum, scholiasten, et versionem plurimis in locis castigavit notis insuper illustravit Ricardus Mounteney, Coll. Regal. apud Cantabrigienses haud ita pridem Socius. Præfiguntur Observationes in commentarios vulgò ulplaneos, et tabula Antiquae Graeciae Demostheni accommodata Adjicitur etiam index locupletissimus.
Demosthenes.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Chariots of iron no check to the divine power, &c. A sermon preach'd at St. Margaret's Lothbury, January 28th, 1733-4. By Robert Besombe, M.A. chaplain to the Right Honble the Lord Baltimore.
Besombe, Robert.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1782. To which is prefixed, a short view of the state of knowledge, literature, and taste, in this country, from the earliest times to the Norman conquest.
Date: 1797