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New and old principles of trade compared; or a treatise on the principles of commerce between nations; with an appendix, respecting I. The principal general means of aiding commerce. II. The Balance of Trade. III. The Pre-Eminence of Agricultural Industry. IV. A Comparison of Prohibitions, Bounties, and Drawbacks. V. The Commerce of Grain. VI. Navigation Laws. Vii. Laws concerning the interest of money.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Declamation; or, an essay on the art of speaking in public; with an historical and critical account of the theatres in Europe. Viz. Italian, Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Flemish, And German theatres. With a review of the manner, person, and character of actors. With Curious Dissertations on the drama; and a Comparison of the Dramas of Ancient and Modern. By Lewis Riccoboni of the Italian Theatre at Paris. Illustrated with notes by the author and translator.
Riccoboni, Luigi, 1676-1753.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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An analysis of the Roman civil law; in which a Comparison is, Occasionally, made between the Roman Laws and those of England: being the Heads of a Course of Lectures, Publickly read in the University of Cambridge. The third edition. By Samuel Hallifax, L.L.D. the King's Professor of Civil Law, and Master of the Faculties to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
Hallifax, Samuel, 1733-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A treatise of musick, speculative, practical and historical. Containing an explication of the philosophical and rational grounds and principles thereof; The Nature and Office of the Scale of Musick; The whole Art of Writing Notes; And the General Rules of Composition. With A Particular Account of the Antient Musick, and a Comparison thereof with the Modern. By Alexander Malcolm, A. M.
Malcolm, Alexander, 1685-1763.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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Dialogues concerning eloquence in general; and particularly, that kind which is fit for the pulpit: by the late Archbishop of Cambray. With his letter to the French Academy, concerning rhetoric, poetry, history, and A Comparison betwixt the Antients and Moderns. Translated from the French, and illustrated with Notes and Quotations; by William Stevenson, M. A. Rector of Morningthorp in Norfolk.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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The advantages of the East-India trade to England, consider'd Wherein all the Objections to that Trade, with relation, I. To the Exportation of Bullion, for Manufactures consum'd in England: II. To the Loss of Employment for our own Hands: III. To the Abatement of Rents: Are fully Answer'd. With A Comparison of the East-India and Fishing Trades.
Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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General view of the agriculture of the county of Northampton, with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up for the consideration of The Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. To which is added, an appendix, containing a Comparison between the English and Scotch Systems of Husbandry, as practised in the Counties of Northampton and Perth. By James Donaldson, Dundee.
Donaldson, James, active 1794.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana; or, A Comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope. And many Things, in Verse and Prose, relating to the latter. With an ample Preface; and a Critique on the Third Volume of Miscellanies lately publish'd by those two facetious Writers.
Smedley, Jonathan, 1671-1729.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Thoughts on the discipline of the Church of England, Respecting, Chiefly, the Administration of Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the Preparation of Children for Confirmation. To which is added, a Comparison, so far as relates to Religious Wisdom, between the English Reformers, and the Generality of the present Modern Divines. In a series of letters to a young clergyman. By the late Thomas Bowman, M. A. Vicar of Martham, Norfolk.
Bowman, Thomas.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A dissertation on II Peter I. 19. In which is shewn, I. That the interpretation of this passage, in the Apostle, as it is propos'd by the author of The grounds and reasons of the Christian religion, is not, probably, the sense of the author, because it does not fall in naturally, with the Course of his Argument to make any Comparison between Miracles and Prophecy; nor is the State of the, suppos'd, Comparison natural. II. That it cannot, possibly, express the Mind of the Author, because it includes Assertions which are false in fact, and, absolutely, contradictory to the positive Declarations of Christ himself. III. That the most remarkable Interpretations, which are manifestly intended to remove these Difficulties, are liable to the same, or other Difficulties. IV. That there is a Construction of the Place, which is natural, easy, and obvious; consistent with the Argument of the Apostle, with the Truth of Things, and with the whole Tenor of the Gospel. Nullius addictus jurare in Verba Magistri, Quod verum atque decens curo, & rogo, & omnis in hoc sum. By Thomas Ashton, M. A. Fellow of Eton College.
Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Three dissertations; one on the characters of Augustus, Horace and Agrippa, With a Comparison between His two Ministers Agrippa and Maecenas, by the Abbe de Vertot. To which is added, Some Reflections on the Characters of Augustus, Maecenas and Horace, and on the Works of Horace, by the Earl of Shaftsbury. With a Print from an ancient Painting, representing Augustus, Agrippa, Maecenas and Horace. Another on the gallery of Verres, by the Abbe Fraguier, in which many excellent Pieces of ancient Statuary, Sculpture and Painting are described. A third on the nature, origin and use of masks, in theatrical representations among the ancients, by Mr. Boindin. With A Print from a fine antique Bas-Relief, lately discover'd at Rome, representing ancient Actors in their Masks, with a Musician playing on the double Tibia.
Turnbull, George, 1698-1748.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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An essay towards ascertaining the sense of the much-controverted passage, in St. Peter's second epistle, from the 16th verse to the end of the first chapter, by a critical discussion of the whole; In a letter to a Man of Quality: In the Course of which the Lord Bishop of London's Comparison of the more sure Word of Prophecy, &c. is defended, against the Objections made to it by Reverend Messieurs Ashton and Cooke, Fellows of Eton College; and their several Solutions are examin'd: with An appendix, relating to the Difference between Moses and other Prophets in the xiith Chapter of the Book of Numbers; the Gradus Mosaicus of the Jews; and the Prophecy concerning another Prophet, in the xviiith Chapter of Deuteronomy. By a late fellow-commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Late Fellow-Commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Books
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A short view of English grammar. In a method intirely new. Containing, I. The doctrine of the eight parts of speech, together with their Signs to know them. II. The Declension of Substantives, Regular, Irregular, Defective, and Redundant, with their Articles and Signs. III. A Table of Adjectives in the three Degrees of Comparison; and how they form Abstracts and Adverbs. IV. The Declension of Pronouns, Substantive and Adjective, Simple and Compound. V. A Table of the Themes of Verbs, with their Government; also their Conjugation and Application of their Signs. VI. A Table of Participles of all Kinds, together with the Gerunds. Vii. The most remarkable Original Adverbs, Simple and Compounded, disposed Alphabetically. Viii. Prepositions and their Government: Also those called Inseparable, and other Syllables borrowed from the Latin in Words compounded. IX. A Summary of Syntax, shewing the Concord and Government of Words join'd in Speech. X. Prosody, shewing the various Ways of accenting Words. XI. The principal and ornamental Rules of Rhetoric, necessary to understand an English Author in Prose or Poetry. XII. Lastly, the terms explain'd; and an account of the stops and marks in writing. For the use of schools. By John Stirling, M. A. And Master of St. Andrew's School, Holbourn.
Stirling, John, -1777.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A short view of English grammar. In a method intirely new. Containing, I. The Doctrine of the Eight Parts of Speech, together with their Signs to know them. II. The Declension of Substantives, Regular, Irregular, Defective, and Redundant, with their Articles and Signs. III. A Table of Adjectives in the three Degrees of Comparison; and how they form Abstracts and Adverbs. IV. The Declension of Pronouns, Substantive and Adjective, Simple and Compound. V. A Table of the Themes of Verbs, with their Government; also their Conjugation and Application of their Signs. VI. A Table of Participles of all Kinds, together with the Gerunds. Vii. The most remarkable Original Adverbs, Simple and Compounded, disposed Alphabetically. Viii. Prepositions and their Government: Also those called Inseparable, and other Syllables borrowed from the Latin in Words compounded. IX. A Summary of Syntax, shewing the Concord and Government of Words join'd in Speech. X. Prosody, shewing the various Ways of accenting Words. XI. The principal and ornamental Rules of Rhetoric, necessary to understand an English Author in Prose or Poetry. XII. Lastly, The Terms explain'd; and an Account of the Stops and Marks in Writing. For the use of schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Vicar of Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.
Stirling, John, -1777.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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A dissertation on Virgil's description of the ancient Roman plough; Which although mysterious, and hitherto undiscovered by any of the Commentators, yet is now entirely illucidated, by a close Comparison between the above, and a Representation on the Reverse of an undoubted Unique. To which is added, Critical Objections against the ploughs of Mr. Spence and Martyn, manifestly shewing them to be entirely erroneous. By A. J. Des Carrieres.
Des Carrieres, A. J.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- 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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The history of ancient and modern Egypt: Comprehending A View of the Natural Phenomena; the Efforts of Genius and Art; and the Moral, Religious, Commercial, and Politcal Transactions of the Egyptians, from the earliest Dawn of Intelligence, to the latest Period of authentic Information. Comprizing Likewise, a Comparison Betwixt the Ancient and Present State of Egypt, and a Philosophic View of those Remarkable Productions Connected with the History of that Country. From the most authentic Records. By J. Franklin, Esq. ...
Franklin, J.Date: [1800]-1802- Books
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The christianity of the New Testament; or, a scolastic defence of the scripture doctrines of redemption, propitiation, &c. From a Comparison of the Original Meaning of those Terms in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek Version of the same, with their Use and Application in the Writings of the New Testament, Against the Infidels and Libertines of this Age. With a preface, occasionally written in vindication of the author's conformity to the established church, contrary to the Principles of his Education. By Peter Whitfield.
Whitfield, P. (Peter)Date: [1755?]- Books
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Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses, and also by a Comparison of their Several Kinds of Composition. In Twelve Books. To which are Added, Epistles and Extracts, from some of the Most Early of the Christian Fathers. The Whole Intended not only to recommend the Bible as superior to all other Books, but as a moral and theological Repository for Christians of every Rank and Degree. In four volumes. By the Revd. David Simpson, M.A.
Simpson, David, 1745-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Experimental observations on the water of the mineral spring near Islington, commonly called New Tunbridge Wells: tending as well to explain and illustrate the general nature of chalybeat waters, as to demonstrate, from its obvious Comparison of its Qualities with those of the Spa and Tunbridge Waters, made by an accurate Examination, that it is absolutely of the same Species with them, but greatly preferable, on Account of that advantageous Reduction of the Quantity it admits of, from its higher Impregnation, and the consequent Increase of its Efficacy. To which is Subjoined. An Account of its Medicinal Virtues and Use; and of the most adviseable Methods of drinking it in each Kind of Case.
Date: [1773]- Books
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Experimental observations on the water of the mineral spring near Islington; commonly called New Tunbridge Wells: tending, as well to explain and illustrate the general nature of chalybeat waters; as to demonstrate, from an obvious Comparison of its qualities with those of the Spa and Tunbridge Waters, made by an accurate Examination, that it is absolutely of the same Species with them, but greatly preferable, on Account of that advantageous Reduction of the Quantity it admits of, from its higher Impregnation, and the consequent Increase of its Efficacy. To which is subjoined, An Account of its Medicinal Virtues and Use; and of the most adviseable Methods of Drinking it in each Kind of Case.
Date: 1751- Books
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The christianity of the New Testament. Or, a scholastic defence of the scripture doctrines of redemption, propitiation, Satisfaction and Salvation, by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. From a Comparison of the Original Meaning of those Terms in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, and the Greek Version of the same, and in the Writings of Pagan Theology, with their plain Use and Application, in the New Testament, to the blessed Effects of the Death of Christ. Against the Infidels and Libertines of this Age. With a Preface, occasionally written as a calm and rational Vindication of the Author's Conformity to the Church of England, (contrary to his Education) upon the Principles of secular and ecclesiastical Polity; as laid down by Grotius, Pussendorf, Hooker, Calvin, &c. By Peter Whitfield.
Whitfield, P. (Peter)Date: [1757]- Books
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A new system of short-hand, by which more may be written in one hour, than in an hour and a half by any other system hitherto published; Which IS Here Fully Demonstrated BY A Fair Comparison With One Of The Best Systems Extant; With A Short And Easy Method BY Which Any Person May Determine, Even Before HE Learns This System, Whether IT Will Enable Him To Follow A Speaker. By Samuel Richardson.
Richardson, Samuel, -1805.Date: 1800- Books
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Remarks on several Acts of Parliament relating more especially to the colonies abroad; as also on diverse acts of assemblies there: Together with A Comparison of the Practice of the Courts of Law in some of the Plantations, with those of Westminster-Hall: And a modest Apology for the former, so far as they materially differ from the latter. Wherein is likewise contain'd, a discourse concerning the 4 1/2 per cent. duty paid in Barbados, and the Leeward Islands.
Blenman, Jonathan.Date: 1742- Books
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Remarks on several Acts of Parliament relating more especially to the colonies abroad; as also on diverse acts of assemblies there: Together with A Comparison of the Practice of the Courts of Law in some of the Plantations, with those of Westminster-Hall: And a modest Apology for the former, so far as they materially differ from the latter. Wherein is likewise contain'd, a discourse concerning the 4 1/2 per cent. duty paid in Barbados, and the Leeward Islands.
Blenman, Jonathan.Date: 1742