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Reflections on courtship and marriage: In two letters to a friend. Wherein a practical plan is laid down for obtaining and securing conjugal felicity. To which is annexed, a letter to a very young lady on her marriage. By Dr. Swift. Together with two essays on jealousy. By Mr. Addison.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Reflections on courtship and marriage: in two letters to a friend. Wherein a practicable plan is laid down for obtaining and securing conjugal felicity. To which is annexed, A letter to a very young lady on her marriage. By Dr. Swift. Together with two essays on jealousy. By Mr. Addison.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's jests: or the cabinet of wit and humour. To which is now first added, a great variety of bons mots, witticisms, and anecdotes of the inimitable Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. The whole forming The most brilliant Collection of quaint Jokes, facetious Puns, smart Repartees, entertaining Tales in Verse and Prose, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Conundrums, &c. &c. now extant.
Pilkington, Laetitia, 1712-1750.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A Series of letters on courtship and marriage. To which are added, Witherspoon's letters on marriage.-- Mrs. Piozzi's letter to a gentleman newly married.-- Swift's letter to a newly married lady, &c. &c.
Date: [1798?]- Books
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Sketches of the reciprocal duties of a Christian pastor and people. A sermon, delivered at Leicester, Massachusetts, January 21, 1798. By Zephaniah Swift Moore, A.M. Pastor of the Congregational Church in Leicester. Published by request of the hearers.
Moore, Zephaniah Swift, 1770-1823.Date: 1798- Books
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On the culture of potatoes: extracted from communications made to the Board of Agriculture in Great-Britain. Published by order of the trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. [Four lines from Swift]
Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Dean Swift's true, genuine, and authentic copy of that most strange, wonderful, and surprizing prophecy written by Saint Patrick, The Patron of Ireland, Above a Thousand Years ago: Faithfully translated from the Irish original above two hundred Years since, in the reign of K. Henry Vii. Now publish'd with explanatory notes. The second edition. To which is subjoin'd, Æsculapius: an imitation of Lucian.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: [1740]- Books
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Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Containing several singular anecdotes relating to the character and conduct of that great genius, and the most deservedly celebrated Stella. In a series of letters to his Lordship. To which are added, two original pieces of the same author (excellent in their kind) never before publish'd.
Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 1686-1768.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The cobler's poem. To a certain noble peer. Occasioned by The Brick-Layer's poem. To which is added the exception. After the manner of Dean Swift. Just publish'd, Home clenches being a new set of conundrums, &c.
Weeks, James Eyre.Date: 1745]- Books
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A defence of Mr. Boswell's Journal; of a tour to the Hebrides; in a letter to the author of the remarks signed Verax.
James, R.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The depopulated vale: a poem. By Mr. Conway.
Conway, Mr.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A selection of fables from the best english writers, containing the larges collection ever published; selected from Dryden, Swift, Wilkie, Whitehead, Cotton, Merrick, Shenitone, Garrick, Smart; Somerville, Peter Pindar, &c. &c. &c. Including all the fables of Gay and Moore.
Date: 1798- Books
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Miscellaneous poetry, by Mrs. West; written at an early period of life.
West, Jane, 1758-1852.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A sermon preached at the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Lee. At Royalston, October 19. 1768. By John Swift, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Acton. And printed at the desire and request of the hearers. [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Swift, John, 1714-1775.Date: 1769- Books
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The principal causes of the opposition to Christianity considered; in a sermon, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Zephaniah Swift Moore, to the pastoral care of the Congregational Church in Leicester, Massachusetts, January 10, 1798. By Charles Backus, A.M. Pastor of a church in Somers, Connecticut.
Backus, Charles, 1749-1803.Date: 1798- Books
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A sermon preach'd at Boston, before the Great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 31. MDCCXXXII. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province. By John Swift, M.A. and Pastor of the church i Framingham.
Swift, John, 1679-1745.Date: 1732- Books
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A funeral discourse deliver'd at Marlborough, on occasion of the death of the Reverend and learned Mr. Robert Breck, late Pastor of the church there; who died Jan 6. 1730[/]31. In the 49th year of his age. By John Swift, A.M. Pastor of the church in Framingham.
Swift, John, 1679-1745.Date: M,DCC,XXXI. [1731]- Books
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An oration on domestic slavery. Delivered at the North Meeting-House in Hartford, on the 12th day of May, A.D. 1791. At the meeting of the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and the Relief of Person Unlawfully Holden in Bondage. By Zephaniah Swift, Esquire
Swift, Zephaniah, 1759-1823.Date: M.DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex.
Date: 1797- Books
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The Lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of th temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables for the female sex.
Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Marchioness of Lambert's Advice of a mother to her daughter. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables for the female sex.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
The dreamer / [Anon].
King, William, 1685-1763Date: 1754- Books
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Reuben, or, the suicide. In two volumes. Se piangesse il meschin se sospirasse, Pensal tu che per prova intendi Amore. ...
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A letter of thanks from my Lord W*****n to the Lord Bp of S. Asaph, in the name of the Kit-Cat-Club.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1712- Books
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A congratulatory epistle to the redoubtable "Peter Porcupine." On his "complete triumph over the once towering but fallen and despicable faction, in the United States:" a poem, by Peter Grievous, Junr. [Two lines from Swift] To which is annexed The vision, a dialogue between Marat and Peter Porcupine, in the infernal regions.
Grievous, Peter.Date: 1796