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The schoolmasters assistant: being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical. In five parts. ... The whole being delivered in the most familiar way of question and answer ... To which is prefixt, an essay on the education of youth; humbly offered to the consideration of parents. By Thomas Dilworth, author of the New guide to the English tongue; Young book-keeper's assistant; &c. &c. and schoolmaster in Wapping. [Four lines of quotations]
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. To which is prefixed, the general institution of the order, as originally framed, and afterwards altered at the general meeting, in May, 1784. Published by direction of that state society.
State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family; who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the spring, 1780.
Walton, William, 1740-1824.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Scripture truths demonstrated, in thirty-two sermons, or declarations of Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester, in Essex, deceased. Carefully taken in characters or short-hand, as they were delivered by him at the public meeting-houses of the people called Quakers, in and abou London. Faithfully transcribed and published, together with his prayers after sermons.
Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A short introduction to Latin grammar. For the use of the University and Academy of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, [Two lines of Latin quotations]
Davidson, James, 1732-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The works of John Woolman. In two parts.
Woolman, John, 1720-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A short account of the people called Quakers; their rise, religious principles and settlement in America, mostly collected from different authors, for the information of all serious inquirers, particularly foreigners. By Anthony Benezet.
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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An account of the life of that ancient servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson, giving a relation of many of his trials and exercises in his youth, and his services in the work of the ministry, in England, Ireland, America, &c. [Three lines from Luke]
Richardson, John, 1667-1753.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Observations upon Negro-slavery. [Seven lines of Scripture texts] The author Charles Crawford.
Crawford, Charles, 1752-Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A short introduction to grammar, for the use of the College and Academy in Philadelphia: being a new edition of Whittenhall's Latin grammar, with many alterations, additions and amendments, from the ancient and late grammarians.
Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Sermons to young women. By James Fordyce, D.D.
Fordyce, James, 1720-1796.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirtuous liquors. By a lover of mankind. [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the ancients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
Aesop.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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An essay on the culture of silk, and raising white mulberry trees, the leaves of which are the only proper food of the silk-worm. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
Citizen of Philadelphia, active 1790.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A treatise of practical surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Gibson, Robert, -1761?.Date: MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790]- Books
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Light rising out of obscurity. Or, A reply to Francis Herr's pamphlet, intitled, A short explication of the written word of God; likewise, of the Christian baptism, and the peaceable kingdom of Christ, against the people called Quakers. By Benjamin Mason. [Two lines from I Peter]
Mason, Benjamin.Date: M.DCC.XC [1790]- Books
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Grand concert of sacred music. Philadelphia, May 4, 1786.
Date: [1786]- Books
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The good mans character and reward represented, and his loss deplor'd, together with reflections of the presages of approaching calamities. In a funeral discourse, with some enlargements occasioned by the death of Captain William Grant of this city, who departed this life, September 30, 1756. Preached in Philadelphia on the following Sabbath. And now published, at the desire of the hearers. By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764.Date: [1756]- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy. Submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793. By John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina. [Three lines in Latin from Seneca]
Newnan, John, approximately 1773-1833.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The divinity of Jesus Christ considered, from Scripture evidences. In three parts. I. Texts of Scripture favorable or adverse thereto. II. Conjecture on his true nature, as coutenanced by sacred writ. III. His agency in creation. To which is added, an attempt to account for the general deluge. By Lewis Nicolas. [One line of quotation]
Nicolas, Lewis.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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Resignation. In two parts, and a postscript, to Mrs. B*******. By Edward Young, D.D. [Three lines from Psalms]
Young, Edward, 1683-1765.Date: M,DCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The acts of Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province. Published by order of Assembly.
Pennsylvania.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Essays on the subject of the slave-trade, in which the sentiments of several eminent British writers are attended to.-- And also containing extracts from an address of the Abolition Society in Paris, to the National Assembly, and to their countrymen in general, dated March 28, 1791.-- Particularly honorable to that nation, and friendly to the rights of mankind.
Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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A looking-glass for the Jews: wherein they may clearly see that the Messiah is come, by the prophets in the Old Testament (above sixteen hundred years since) and the manifest testimonies since. And also, they may see their own blindness and ignorance of their own prophets, and of the Messiah unto this day. By which my desire is, they may turn to him, that their eyes may be opened, that they may see him whom they have pierced. Written by George Fox, in the year of our Lord, 1674.
Fox, George, 1624-1691.Date: 1784- Books
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Miscellanies, moral and instructive, in prose and verse; collected from various authors, for the use of schools, and improvement of young persons of both sexes. [Two lines from Pope]
Date: M.DCC.LXXX.VII. [1787]