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A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke : conteynyuge certeyne preceptes necessary to the preseruacion of healthe, and longe continuaunce of the same: verye pleasaunte and profitable to reade.
Wingfield, HenryDate: [1551?]]
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Blagrave's Introduction to astrology : in three parts ... / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682Date: 1682
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Spiritual letters: by several eminent Christians.
Date: 1767
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Sunday reading. The Ship-Wreck. To which is Added, The Execution of Wild Robert.
Date: [1795?]
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A contemplation of mans mortalitie. Preached at Reading, by John Dashfield, M.A.
Dashfield, JohnDate: 1649
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The first lecture of an introduction to cosmographie : being a description of all the vvorld / Read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.
Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667Date: 1649
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The faithful watchman. A sermon, preached at the ordination of the Reverend Peter Sanborn, A.M. Pastor of the Third Church in Reading, June 9, 1790. By Elihu Thayer, Pastor of the First Church in Kingston.
Thayer, Elihu, 1747-1812.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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The anatomy of plants : with an idea of a philosophical history of plants, and several other lectures, read before the royal society / by Nehemjah Grew.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712Date: 1682
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Sheridan's strictures on reading the church-service; with the notes, regularly annexed, and proper references. By the Rev. W. Faulkner, A.B.
Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
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A discourse, delivered to the young gentlemen of the grammar-school, Reading, On Sunday the 24th of November, 1799, (at their usual Sunday Evening Lecture) On a mournful Occasion. Published by Request. By the Rev. Edward Barry, M. D.; Of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Barry, Edward, 1759-1822.Date: [1799?]
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The elements of reading: being select and easy English lessons, for young readers of both sexes: designed as a sequel to the spelling-book, and a proper introduction to the speaker, or any other selection of a like nature. By the Rev. J. Adams, A. M. Author of Lectiones Selectae, and Exercises in Latin Composition. Published at the Request of several eminent Instructors of Youth.
Adams, John, 1750?-1814.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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The elements of reading: being select and easy English lessons, for young readers of both sexes: designed as a sequel to the spelling-book, and a proper introduction to the speaker, or any other selection of a like nature. By the Rev. J. Adams, A. M. Author of Lectiones Selectae, and Exercises in Latin Composition Published at the Request of several eminent Instructors of Youth.
Adams, John, 1750?-1814.Date: 1795
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Die Lunæ, 14o Julii 1800. The order of the day being read for the further consideration, and second reading of the bill, intituled, "An Act to incorporate certain persons by the name of The London Company for the manufacture of flour, meal, and bread, for a limited time;" and for hearing counsel for and against the same.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1800]
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A glimpse of eternity : Very useful to awaken sinners, and to comfort saints. Profitable to be read in families, and given at funerals. By Abr. Caley.
Caley, Abraham, -1672Date: 1683
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The Goat in sheeps cloathing. Or, An account of a certain minister within forty mile of St. Jones's, who on Saturday night last was more given to the flesh than the spirit, and having pick'd up a mistress in St. Paul's Church-Yard, carried her home to his lodging near the place aforsaid; but being dog'd by an envious frenchman, the whole intrigue was discover'd, and the doctor forc'd to part with his dear bit of houshold-goods, after they had been in bed together. As also, an account of the examination of the whole matter before the worshipful Justice Fuller, where the doctor was admitted to bail, and the poor doxy committed to Clerkenwell Bridewell. Together with the confession of Ellenor Kirk, now under her confinement in the said prison. Publish'd for the good and edification of the publick.
Date: 1712
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Husbandry moralized; or, pleasant Sunday reading for a farmer's kitchen.
Date: [1795?]
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Gods judgment against murderers. Or, an account of a cruel and barbarous murther, Committed on Thursday Night, the 14th of August, at Sadler's Musick-House near Islington, on the Body of Mr. Waite, a Lieutenant of a Man of War, by one Mr. French, a Lawyer of the Temple; shewing how they Quarrell'd about Women. With an Account of his Examination before the Worshipful Justice Ward, and his Commitment to Newgate. To which is added, the dreadful fate of a young gentleman who murder'd his own mother, and the Terrible End he came to.
Date: 1712
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The female Amazon, or a genuine accgunt [sic] of the most remarkable adventures, and complicated intrigues, displayed in the life of the celebrated and notorious Miss Fanny Davies, the Borough beauty. ... Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece. ... By Mr. Thompson, ...
Thompson, Mr., active 1786.Date: 1786
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The second part of The beggars opera.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: 1729
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The cruel son, or, the unhappy mother. Being a dismal relation of one Mr. Palmer and three ruffins, who barbarously murder'd his own mother ... Together with the examination and confession of Hunt, Palmer and Symonds, ...
Date: 1707
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[An homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence].
Hooper, John, -1555Date: [1553]]
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beuties [sic], banquets, perfumes, and waters. Read, practice and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1656
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Æsopi Fabulæ, Anglo-Latinæ; quarum singulæ in distinctas suas periodos, numericis characteribus annotatas, ita dividuntur; ut in eisdem transcribendis & transferendis exercitati pueruli, non modo regulas quascunque grammaticas accuratius intelligant; sed & aptam verborum compositionem, atque idiomata utriusque linguæ felicius prosequantur, atq; imitentur. A Carolo Hoole, ...
Aesop.Date: 1731
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The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant booke of the famous doctour and expert astrologien Arcandain or Aleandrin : to fynd the fatal desteny, constellation; complexion, and naturall inclination of euery man and childe by his byrth: with an addition of phisiognomie very delectable to reade. Now newly tourned out of French into our vulgar tonge, by Williamd Warde.
Roussat, RichardDate: [1562?]
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Report of the committee of the subscribers to a fund for the relief of the industrious poor of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and the several out-parishes of the metropolis; read at a general meeting of the respectable inhabitants, convened by public advertisement, at the London Tavern, on Wednesday the 19th of March, 1800.
Committee for the relief of the industrious poor (London, England)Date: [1800]

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A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke : conteynyuge certeyne preceptes necessary to the preseruacion of healthe, and longe continuaunce of the same: verye pleasaunte and profitable to reade.

Blagrave's Introduction to astrology : in three parts ... / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent.

Spiritual letters: by several eminent Christians.

Sunday reading. The Ship-Wreck. To which is Added, The Execution of Wild Robert.

A contemplation of mans mortalitie. Preached at Reading, by John Dashfield, M.A.

The first lecture of an introduction to cosmographie : being a description of all the vvorld / Read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.

The faithful watchman. A sermon, preached at the ordination of the Reverend Peter Sanborn, A.M. Pastor of the Third Church in Reading, June 9, 1790. By Elihu Thayer, Pastor of the First Church in Kingston.

The anatomy of plants : with an idea of a philosophical history of plants, and several other lectures, read before the royal society / by Nehemjah Grew.

Sheridan's strictures on reading the church-service; with the notes, regularly annexed, and proper references. By the Rev. W. Faulkner, A.B.

A discourse, delivered to the young gentlemen of the grammar-school, Reading, On Sunday the 24th of November, 1799, (at their usual Sunday Evening Lecture) On a mournful Occasion. Published by Request. By the Rev. Edward Barry, M. D.; Of St. John's College, Cambridge.

A glimpse of eternity : Very useful to awaken sinners, and to comfort saints. Profitable to be read in families, and given at funerals. By Abr. Caley.

Husbandry moralized; or, pleasant Sunday reading for a farmer's kitchen.

The female Amazon, or a genuine accgunt [sic] of the most remarkable adventures, and complicated intrigues, displayed in the life of the celebrated and notorious Miss Fanny Davies, the Borough beauty. ... Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece. ... By Mr. Thompson, ...

The second part of The beggars opera.

The cruel son, or, the unhappy mother. Being a dismal relation of one Mr. Palmer and three ruffins, who barbarously murder'd his own mother ... Together with the examination and confession of Hunt, Palmer and Symonds, ...

[An homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence].

Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beuties [sic], banquets, perfumes, and waters. Read, practice and censure.