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The universal library of historians; (viz.) the oriental, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and others: Containing An Account of their Lives; The Abridgment, Chronology and Geography of their Histories; With Critical Observations on their Style and Character; And a Catalogue of the several Editions of their Works. Also Chronological and Geographical Tables. Written in French by Lewis Ellis du Pin, Author of the Ecclesiastical Bibliotheque, now Abbot of Cluraval. Done into English from the Paris edition.
Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
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The complete letter-writer: or, polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also A Variety of more elegant Letters for Examples, and Improvement of Style, from the best modern Authors, together with some Originals, 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. And at the End of the Prose, Some elegant Poetical Epistles, and various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The complete letter-writer; or, polite English secretary. Containing, familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also A Variety of more elegant Letters for Examples and Improvement of Style, from the best modern Authors, together with many Originals, ON Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship, and Other Subjects. To which is prefix'd A plain and compendious grammar of the English tongue. Also directions for writing letters, in an easy and proper Manuer, And how to address Persons of all Ranks, either in Writing or Discourse; and some necessary Orthographical Directions. And at the End of the Prose, Some elegant Poetical Epistles, and various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The complete letter-writer: or, polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples, and Improvement of Style, from the best modern Authors, together with some Originals, 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. And at the End of the Prose, Some elegant Poetical Epistles, and various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
Date: 1757- Books
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The complete letter-writer: or, polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples, and Improvement of Style, from the best modern Authors, together with some Originals, 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. And at the End of the Prose, Some elegant Poetical Epistles, and various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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The instructive letter-writer, and entertaining companion: containing letters on the most interesting subjects, In an Elegant and Easy Style; Most of which are wrote by the following royal and eminent personages, and the best authors, Antient and Modern, viz. Cicero, Brutus, Trajan, Pliny, Plutarch, Q. Ann Boleyn, K. Edward VI. K. Charles I. and His Queen, Queen Ann, Prince George of Denmark, Empss. of Russia Sir W. Raleigh, Du. and Dutchess of Marlborough, Ma. of Granby, Abp. Tillotson Molyneux, Locke, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gay, Atterbury, Mr. & Mrs. Rowe, Richardson, Coleman, Murphy, &c. With Forms of Messages for Cards. To which are prefix'd, Instructions for writing Letters with Elegance and Propriety; Directions how to address Persons of all Ranks; A plain and concise Grammar of the English Tongue; and some necessary Orthographical Directions. By George Seymour.
Seymour, George.Date: 1763- Pictures
Music making: a woman playing the shamisen, another woman playing a lute, and a man playing the flute. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728857iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Pictures
A young woman rides on horseback accompanied by an older man on horseback and his servant on foot. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728888iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Pictures
A young woman walks alone among the trees; in the background, other people sit together in a circle in a courtyard. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728887iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Pictures
The entrance to a house: someone ascends the entrance steps while another person points out something to some men seated next to bows and arrows. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728896iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Books
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The lady's polite secretary, or new female letter writer. Containing an elegant variety of interesting and instructive letters, intended as Models to form the Style on every Point essential to the Happiness or Entertainment of the Sex. In which are comprised many admired Epistolary Narratives, an Article hitherto unattempted in every Book of the Kind. Likewise several Original Letters of Wit and Sentiment, by Ladies of the first Rank in the Literary World. To which are added, instances, to serve as beacons to the inexperienced, of that flimsy, affected Style and Sentiment, so prevalent in Modern Correspondence, the Delight of our Novelists, and the Bane of our Youth. With Variety of Poetical Letters, Humorous and Pathetic, Sentimental and Descriptive. And Cards of Compliment and Condolance, of Friendship and Resentment. In this Collection are contained Rules to be observed in writing Letters, and the different Forms of Address. To which is prefixed a short, but comprehensive, grammar of th English language. -The Whole so calculated, that any Lady may, in a very short Time, be enabled to write her Thoughts with a becoming Propriety and Ease. By the Right Hon. Lady Dorothea Du Bois.
Du Bois, Dorothea, 1728-1774.Date: [1771]- Pictures
A colossal barge with a prow in the form of a bird is watched from a river-bank by two men and the servant of one of them. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728895iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Books
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The sacred classics defended and illustrated: or, an essay humbly offer'd towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament. In two parts. In the first of which Those Divine Writers are vindicated against the Charge of barbarous Language, false Greek, and Solecisms. In the second is shewn, That all the Excellencies of Style, and sublime Beauties of Language and genuine Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Testament. With an Account of their Style and Character, and a Representation of their Superiority, in several Instances, to the best classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin'd proper indexes. By A. Blackwall, M.A.
Blackwall, Anthony, 1674-1730.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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The sacred classics defended and illustrated: or, an essay humbly offer'd towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament. In two parts. In the First of which Those Divine Writers are vindicated against the Charge of barbarous Language, false Greek, and Solecisms. In the Second is shewn, That all the Excellencies of Style, and sublime Beauties of Language and genuine Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Testament. With An Account of their Style and Character, and a Representation of their Superiority, in several Instances, to the best classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin'd proper Indexes. By A. Blackwall, M.A.
Blackwall, Anthony, 1674-1730.Date: M,DCC,XXV. [1725]- Books
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Models of letters in French and English, containing 1st. A Collection of familiar Letters and Notes, with their Answers, on a Variety of Subjects - 2dly. Several Letters, both elegant and entertaining, extracted from the most celebrated epistolary Writers - 3dly. Introductory Remarks on the commercial Style, with various Specimens of Letters, Bills of Exchange, promissory Notes, &c. relative to the mercantile Business. To which are annexed accurate directions with regard to the proper form of writing to superiors, equals, and inferiors. The whole Designed for the Instruction and Improvement of such young Gentlemen and Ladies as are particularly desirous of acquiring the true Style and exact Manner of French epistolary Correspondence. By Mr. Porny, French - Master at Eton - College.
Porny, Mr.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord 1754. Being the Second after Bissextile, or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Fourteenth Almanack publish'd of this Kind; And the Second of the New Style in England.
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord, 1759. Being The Third after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Nineteenth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Seventh of the New Style in England.
Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord 1789 Being first after Bissextile. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Forty-Ninth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Thirty-Seventh of the New-Style in England.
Date: [1789]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord, 1758. Being The Second after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Eighteenth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Sixth of the New Style in England.
Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord, 1757. Being The First after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks; The Seventeenth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Fifth of the New Style in England.
Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The gentleman's diary, or the mathematical repository; an almanack for the year of our Lord 1755. Being the Third after Bissextile, or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Fifteenth Almanack publish'd of this Kind; And the Third of the New Style in England.
Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A true and full account of the death and character of the Princess-Royal, Louisa-Maria-Teresa Stuart, daughter of the late King James. Who was born in the year 1692, at St. Germains, and died of the small-pox the 18th of April 1712, New Style. In a letter from a noble-man of France, to his correspondent at Vtrecht.
Noble-Man of France.Date: Printed in Year MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The complete letter-writer. Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also, A variety of elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, on business, duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, and Other Subjects. To which is prefixed, a plain and compendious grammar of the English language. With directions for writing letters, and the proper forms of address. At the end are given forms of message-cards, and a copious English spelling dictionary.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A new translation of Æsop's fables, adorn'd with cutts; suited to the fables copied from the Frankfurt edition: by the most ingenious artist Christopher Van Sycham. The Whole being rendered in a Plain, Easy, and Familiar Style, adapted to the Meanest Capacities. Nevertheless Corrected and Reform'd from the Grossness of the Language, and Poorness of the Verse us'd in the now Vulgar Translation: The Morals also more accurately Improv'd; Together with Reflections on each Fable, in Verse. By J. J. Gent.
Aesop.Date: 1708- Books
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Ars concionandi: or an instruction to young students in divinity. By J. Barecroft, D.D. The fourth edition. Being advice to a son in the university, with Concionatorum Instructio: Rules for Preaching; or, Advice to all Novices in that Divine Art. Plainly intimating what Subject, Method and Style may be Requisite in it. To which is now added, a short view of the lives, Sufferings, Works and Failures of the fathers in the Three First Centuries. With some Account of the Four First General Councils.
Barecroft, John.Date: 1715