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A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States, of North-America: which is necessary to their preservation and happiness, humbly offered to the public, by a citizen of Philadelphia.
Webster, Pelatiah, 1726-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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The advantages and disadvantages of the marriage-state, as entered into with religious, or irreligious persons, represented under the similitude of a dream. To which is added, an appendix, by the author, ...
Johnson, John, 1706-1791.Date: 1784
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New elements of optics; or, the theory of the aberrations, dissipation, and colours of light: of the general and specific refractive powers and densities of mediums; the properties of single and compound lenses: and The Nature, Construction, and Use of Refracting and Reflecting telescopes and microscopes Of every Sort hitherto published. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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The prompter; or A commentary on common sayings and subjects, which are full of common sense, the best sense in the world. [One line of quotation]
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1800
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The substance of a speech delivered by James Wilson, Esq. Explanatory of the general principles of the proposed Faederal Constitution; upon a motion made by the Honorable Thomas M'Kean, in the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania. On Saturday the 24th of November, 1787.
Wilson, James, 1742-1798.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
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The art of speaking. Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or public speaking; and II. Lessons taken from the ancients and moderns (with additions and alterations, where thought useful) exhibiting a variety of matter for practice; the emphatical words printed in italics; with notes of direction referring to the essay. To which are added, a table of the lessons, and an index of the various passions and humours in the essay and lessons. [Four lines in Latin from Cicero]
Burgh, James, 1714-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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A list of the general and staff officers, and of the officers in the several regiments serving in North-America, under the command of His Excellency General Sir William Howe, K.B. With the dates of their commissions as they rank in each corps and in the army.
Great Britain. Army.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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Opening doors for troubled people / by David S. Shapiro and Leonard T. Maholick.
Shapiro, David S. (David Sidney), 1923-1983.Date: [1963]
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Behind closed doors : preventing sexual abuse against adults with a learning disability.
Date: 2001
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Behind closed doors : IRBs and the making of ethical research / Laura Stark.
Stark, Laura Jeanine Morris, 1975-Date: [2012], ©2012
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Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care : opening doors / Christy M. Ponticelli, editor.
Date: [1998]
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The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison: contains twenty-five of the most humorous satirical, political prints for the years 1762 and 63, viz. 26 The Bagshot Frolick 27 The Congress 28 The Caledonian Pacification 29 The Highland Seer 30 The Laird of the Boot 31 The Coach over-turn'd 32 The Scotch Hurdy-Gurdy 33 Gisbal and Bathsheba 34 We are all Come 35 Boot put to Flight 36 Without 37 Within 38 The Fishermen 39 Sawney in Office 40 The Times 41 The Good Ship, Old Engl. 42 The Scotch Cradle 43 Provision for the Convent 44 The Evacuation 45 A Hieroglyphic Letter 46 The Asses of Great-Brit. 47 The Mountebank 48 The Scotch Idol 49 Blocks for Hogarth's Wigs 50 Lyon in Boots To which is added, all the Poetical Poems, Essays, Songs, &c.
Date: [1764]
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Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.
Reference: 43421i
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A defence of the Old Testament, in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled, "The age of reason, part the second, being an investigation of true and fabulous theology." By David Levi, author of Letters to Dr. Priestley, in answer to his t the Jews, &c. &c. &c. [Two lines of Scripture texts]
Levi, David, 1740-1799.Date: 1798
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The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors / Carla Valentine.
Valentine, CarlaDate: 2017
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Healthy meals out of doors or in tent or caravan / by Edgar J. Saxon.
Saxon, Edgar J.Date: [1939]
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Plain facts: being an examination into the rights of the Indian nations of America, to their respective countries; and a vindication of the grant, from the Six United Nations of Indians, to the proprietors of Indiana, against the decision of the legislature of Virginia; together with authentic documents, proving that the territory, westward of the Allegany mountain, never belonged to Virginia, &c.
Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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Fitz-giggo, a new English uproar; with the way to make him; or, a new overture upon the old score; as it was performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, by Mr. Beard, Miss Brent, Sig. Tenducci, Mr. Smith, Mr. Woodward, pit, boxes, galleries, &c. &c. The words adapted (al burlesquo) to the favourite airs in the opera of Artaxerxes.
Date: [1763?]
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John Hamilton Mortimer sketching out of doors among monumental ruins. Lithograph by J.R. Jobbins.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 3063667i
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Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world; by the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodised and digested under distinct heads, with additions, by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him knowledge of life, and make him well received in all companies. For the improvement of youth; yet not beneath the attention of any.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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Horae lyricae. Poems chiefly of the lyric kind. In three books. Sacred I. To devotion and piety. II. To virtue, honour, and friendship. III. To the memory of the dead. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Horace]
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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How she lost him; or, The history of Miss Wyndham. In two volumes.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]
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A curious letter from a gentleman to Mr. Whitefield, wherein he proves, that Mr. Whitefield knows much less of Christianity than either Archbishop Tillotson, or the author of The whole duty of man. Wit Remarks. By Aquila Smyth, Layman of the Church of England.
Smyth, Aquila.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]
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The mourner: or, The afflicted relieved. By Benjamin Grosvenor, D.D. [Three lines of quotations]
Grosvenor, B. (Benjamin), 1676-1758.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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A new treatise on the laws concerning tithes: Containing all the statutes, adjudged cases, resolutions and judgments relative thereto, under the following heads: chap. I. Definition of tithes, parsonage, vicarage, impropriation, and appropriation; and of the origin, nature, and several kinds of tithes. II. Out of what things tithes shall be paid; what lands are subject to tithes, and the several statutes for dissolving abbies, monasteries, and other religious houses, and vesting their lands in the King; what lands are discharged from tithes by these acts respectively, with a catalogue of the monasteries dissolved by stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly value of 200l. and upwards; what order they were of, and the times of their respective foundations. III. Of exemptions from payment of tithes; and of modus, custom, and prescription, IV. An alphabetical table or index of things titheable, and not titheable. V. Of setting out, and taking and carrying away tithes. VI. Of the remedies for recovering tithes, and the several acts of Parliament made for that purpose. VII. Of suits in the Court of Exchequer concerning tithes, and the proceedings in such suits. VIII. Of prohibitions in suits for tithes. IX. Of leases of tithes, for lives or years, by ecclesiastical persons. X. Of the manner of paying tithes, and the sums payable by the respective parishes in London. XI. Cases concerning tithes, determined in the Court of King's Bench, by the Earl of Hardwicke, and Lord Mansfield. The third edition, corrected and enlarged; with the addition of several cases never before printed. By T. Cunningham, Esq;
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]

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A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States, of North-America: which is necessary to their preservation and happiness, humbly offered to the public, by a citizen of Philadelphia.

The advantages and disadvantages of the marriage-state, as entered into with religious, or irreligious persons, represented under the similitude of a dream. To which is added, an appendix, by the author, ...

The prompter; or A commentary on common sayings and subjects, which are full of common sense, the best sense in the world. [One line of quotation]

The substance of a speech delivered by James Wilson, Esq. Explanatory of the general principles of the proposed Faederal Constitution; upon a motion made by the Honorable Thomas M'Kean, in the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania. On Saturday the 24th of November, 1787.

A list of the general and staff officers, and of the officers in the several regiments serving in North-America, under the command of His Excellency General Sir William Howe, K.B. With the dates of their commissions as they rank in each corps and in the army.

Opening doors for troubled people / by David S. Shapiro and Leonard T. Maholick.

Behind closed doors : preventing sexual abuse against adults with a learning disability.

Behind closed doors : IRBs and the making of ethical research / Laura Stark.

Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care : opening doors / Christy M. Ponticelli, editor.

Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.

The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors / Carla Valentine.

Healthy meals out of doors or in tent or caravan / by Edgar J. Saxon.

John Hamilton Mortimer sketching out of doors among monumental ruins. Lithograph by J.R. Jobbins.

Horae lyricae. Poems chiefly of the lyric kind. In three books. Sacred I. To devotion and piety. II. To virtue, honour, and friendship. III. To the memory of the dead. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Horace]

How she lost him; or, The history of Miss Wyndham. In two volumes.

A curious letter from a gentleman to Mr. Whitefield, wherein he proves, that Mr. Whitefield knows much less of Christianity than either Archbishop Tillotson, or the author of The whole duty of man. Wit Remarks. By Aquila Smyth, Layman of the Church of England.

The mourner: or, The afflicted relieved. By Benjamin Grosvenor, D.D. [Three lines of quotations]