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Tales of the Hoy; interspersed with song, ode, and dialogue. By Peter Pindar, Esq.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: [1798?]- Books
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Poems by eminent ladies. Particularly, Mrs. Barber, Mrs. Behn, Miss Carter, Lady Chudleigh, Mrs. Cockburn, Mrs. Grierson, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Killigrew, Mrs. Leapor, Mrs. Madan, Mrs. Masters, Lady M. W. Montague, Mrs. Monk, Dutchess of Newcastle, Mrs. K. Philips, Mrs. Pilkington, Mrs. Rowe, Lady Winchelsea. ...
Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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Memoirs of the nobility, gentry, &c. of Thule: or, the island of love. Being a secret history of their amours, artifices and intrigues. ...
Fantosme.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]-44- Books
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Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho' an Hundred Years ago) compos'd; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long Time by in a Corner, and now at last made public. Together with Bessy Bell. Illustrated with several Neat Copper-Plates.
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho' an Hundred Years ago) compos'd; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long Time by in a Corner, and now at last made public. Together with Bessy Bell. To which is now added, (never before published) the ancient ballad of Chevy chase. In Latin and English verse.
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Experiments and observations, in three parts. Part I. On the Dissolvent Power of Water Impregnated with Fixible Air, compared with Simple Water, relative to Medicinal Substances. Part II. On the Dissolvent Power of Water Impregnated with Fixible Air, on the Urinary Calculus. Part III. On the Antiseptic Power of Water Impregnated with Fixible Air, and a Comparison of several Antiseptic Substances with one another relative to this Quality. By William Falconer, M. D. F. R. S.
Falconer, William, 1744-1824.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A view of the Isle of Wight, in four letters to a friend. Containing, Not only a Description of its Form and principal Productions, but the most, authentic and material Articles of its natural, political and commercial History. By John Sturch.
Sturch, John, -1794.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Dr. Boerhaave's academical lectures on the theory of physic. Being a genuine translation of his institutes and explanatory comment, collated and adjusted to each other, as they were dictated to his students at the University of Leyden. ... . Containing the Structure and Action of the Spleen, Omentum, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Muscles and Skin; with the Nature of Sweat, Perspiration and Nutrition.
Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1742-46]- Books
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A consolatory epistle to the jacks of Great Britain. Written originally in Spanish, on occasion of the taking of Vigo; by an Irish, Romish, Spanish, runaway, rebel-captain. Made English by a gentleman of Oxford.
Date: [1719]- Books
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Falstaff's wedding, a comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Being a sequel to the second part of the play of King Henry the fourth. Written in imitation of Shakespeare, by W. Kenrick.
Kenrick, W. (William), 1725?-1779.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of th Turks. Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. Complete in one volume.
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. which contain, Among other curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks. Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. Complete in one volume.
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W---y M---e: written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, To Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which Contain, Among other curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks. Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. Complete in one volume.
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The country life; or an invitation of the soul to retirement. Being a poetical soliloquy on cant. vii. II. By John Wren, A.M.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: [1717]- Books
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A concise history of anatomy, from the earliest ages of antiquity. To which are annexed, a few thoughts on the uses of anatomy, and rules for giving a course of anatomical lectures. By W. Northcote, surgeon, Author of The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery; and The Anatomy of the Human Body for the Use of Naval Practitioners.
Northcote, William, -1783?.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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England's witty and ingenious jester: or the merry citizen and jocular countryman's delightful companion. In Two Parts. I. A choice Collection of the Newest and Wittiest Jests, pleasant Relations, and smart Repartees. II. A curious Collection of the Newest Songs, as they are now Sung at Court, and both Theatres. By W. W. gent.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.Date: [1730?]- Books
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A letter from a clergyman at London to the remaining disconsolate inhabitants of Lisbon. Occasioned by the late dreadfull earthquake, and Conflagration, by which that great and populous City, with many other Parts of that late flourishing Kingdom, have been laid in Ruins. To which is added, a faithful account of Mr. Archibald B-W r's motives for quitting his office of Secretary to the Court of Inquisition.
Clergyman at London.Date: Mccclvi. [1756]- Books
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Geodæsia: or, the art of surveying and measuring of land made easie. Shewing, by plain and practical rules, how to survey, And Measuring of Land Made Easie. Shewing, By Plain and Practical Rules, how to Survey, Protract, Cast up, Reduce or Divide any Piece of Land whatsover; with Now Tables for the ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measures of Land. Moreover, A more Facile and Sure Way of Surveying by the Chain, than has hitherto been Taught. AS Also, How to lay-out New Lands in America, or elsewhere: And how to make a Perfect Map of a River's Mouth or Harbour; with several other Things never yet Publish'd in our Language. By John Love.
Love, John, active 1688.Date: 1715- Books
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The french Momus: or, comical adventures of the Duke of Roquelaure: taken from the memoirs which the author found in the closet of the Marshal D'Huxells, to whom he was Secretary. Compriz'd in nineteen stories or Adventures.
L. R., sieur.Date: [1718]- Books
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The south-Sea scheme detected; and the management thereof enquir'd into: with the case of the Subscribing Annuitants; and a Remedy offer'd for our present Grievances, in answer to a pamphlet, entitled, The South-Sea scheme examin'd, &c. By a lover of his country.
Lover of His Country.Date: [1720]- Books
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Observations on the scheme of Mr. Law, in France, and of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, in Great-Britain; and concerning the establishing paper-money, and forcing credit.
Date: [1720?]- Books
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An account of a surprizing meteor, seen in the air March 19. 1718/19. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the original letters of those who saw it in different places. II. Some Historical Accounts of the like Meteors before. III. A Demonstration that such Meteors are not Comets. IV. That such Meteors are not a Concourse of Vapours above our Atmosphere. V. That they are prodigious Blasts of Thunder and Lightenings in the upper Regions of our Air. VI. Observations from the whole. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1719- Books
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Observations and remarks upon the declaration of war against Spain, and upon the manifesto publish'd in the name of the King of France, explaining the said declaration. From whence the Reason and Justice of the said War is confirm'd as well on the Part of Great Britain, as on the Part of France.
Date: [1719]- Books
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An essay on the art of healing. In which pus laudabile or matter, as also incarning and cicatrising, and the causes of various diseases, are endeavoured to be accounted for both from nature and reason. By John Freke, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, F.R.S.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The analysis of the ballance of power: wherein its necessity, origin and history is examin'd, and deduc'd from the common principles of justice and society.
Date: 1720