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A sermon, delivered before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, in Boston, June 4, 1798; being the anniversary of their election of officers. By Nathaniel Thayer, Minister of the church in Lancaster.
Thayer, Nathaniel, 1769-1840.Date: 1798- Books
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Narrative of the transactions on board ... the Brunswick, commanded by captain John Harvey, from the 28th of May, to the afternoon of the memorable first of June, 1794. From which two pictures are taken, by Nicholas Pocock.
Date: 1795?]- Books
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The drummer; or, the haunted-house. A comedy. By the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq;
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The new universal parish officer. Containing all the laws now in force, relating to parish business, rang'd in alphabetical order. Very proper for attornies, constables, churchwardens, justices, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and all persons in office, who would gain a competent knowledge of this branch of the law, so as to enable them to discharge their respective duties with ease and expedition. It is also very proper for every hosue keepter and inhabitant who is desirous of being perfectly acquainted with the laws relating to parishes, that he may not entirely rely upon the skill of parish officers, who are but too frequently unacquainted with some material part of their duty. This work is entirely freed from the errors, obscurities, and repetitions of former writers on this subject. Collected from the common, statute, and other authentic law-books. Interspersed with many useful precedents. By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Gentleman of the Middle Temple.Date: [1764?]- Books
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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London, September 3, 1753. By William Cokayne, B.D. Fellow of St.John's College, Oxford, professor of astronomy at Gresham College, and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Orkney and Inchiquin.
Cokayne, William, 1717-1798.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The children of Thespis. A poem. By Anthony Pasquin, Esq. Part the third.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Essai sur le rétablissement de l'ancienne forme du gouvernement de Pologne, suivant la constitution primitive de la Republique. Par M. le Comte Wielhorski, Grand-Maitre D'Hotel du Grand Duche de Lithuanie. Traduit du Polonois.
Wielhorski, approximately 1716-1804?.Date: 1775- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Grandville, ...
Mackenzie, Kenneth, Sir, -1763.Date: 1761]- Books
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Of the use of riches, an epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst. By Mr. Pope.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: [1733]- Books
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Orpheus and Eurydice, a musical drama, in imitation of the ancient Greek theatrical feasts. As performed at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket. The poetry by the celebrated Councellor Calsabigi. With additions and alterations by Signor A. Andrei.
Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A catalogue of books printed for Alexander Donaldson bookseller in Edinburgh; And sold at his Shop near Norfolk-street, in the Strand, London, and at Edinburgh; also by the booksellers of Great Britain, Ireland and America.
Donaldson, Alexander, -1794.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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General view of the agriculture and rural economy of East Lothian. With observations on the means of their improvement. By George Buchan-Hepburn, Esq. of Smeaton. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.
Hepburn, George Buchan, Sir, 1739-1819.Date: 1794- Books
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The negative discussed in two parts. By Mr. William Wright minister of the Gospel at Kilmarnock.
Wright, William, -1723.Date: In the year, M.DCC.XXI. [1721]- Books
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The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe; of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque; having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pirates. Written by himself. The sixteenth edition, adorned with cuts. In two volumes. ...
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An universal etymological English dictionary; Comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonick, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters: And Also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physick, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematicks, Grammar, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law; and the Etymology, and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: Also the Dialects of our different Countries. Containing many Thousand Words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added, A Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication and Illustration. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By N. Bailey, [Greek] The four-and-twentieth edition, carefully enlarged and corrected by Edward Harwood, D.D.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: [1782?]- Books
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A full justification of the doctrines advanced in Mr. Bowman's visitation sermon; or, the authority claimed by bishops not warranted jure divino tho' supported jure humano. Containing Arguments proving the Identity and Parity of Bishops and Presbyters by Divine Institution; and that the Postscripts in the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy and in that to Titus (upon which Foundation is built the Divine Right of Episcopacy) are Spurious, and of no Authority. With The Opinions and Resolutions of K. Henry Viii. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Commons, Convocation, &c. concerning the Superiority and Jurisdiction of Bishops over Presbyters.
Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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Anticipation, or the voyage of an American to England, In the Year 1899, In a Series of Letters, Humorously describing the supposed Situation of this Kingdom at that Period.
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The works of the late Reverend and learned John Howe, M. A. Sometime Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon. Together with His Funeral Sermon, preach'd by Mr. Spademan. To which are prefix'd, Memoirs of the Life of the Author; Collected by Edmund Calamy, D. D. In two volumes.
Howe, John, 1630-1705.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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A bickerstaff's burying; or, work for the upholders. A farce; as it is acted at the theatres, with applause. By His Majesty's servants. Written by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre: Author of The Gamester, a Comedy.
Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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Two sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, in the year 1762; on May XXIX. The Restoration of King Charles II. and on October XXV. The Accession of His Present Majesty. By Z. Brooke, D. D. Fellow of S. John's College, And Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Brooke, Zachary, 1716-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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A seaman's remarks on the British ships of the line, from the 1st of January, 1756, to the 1st of January, 1782. With some occasional observations on the fleet of the House of Bourbon.
Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781.Date: printed in the year MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A collection from Dyers letters, concerning the elections of the present Parliament: with an appendix, relating to some other publick matters.
Dyer, John, 1652 or 1653-1713.Date: 1706 [1705]- Books
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La Perouse, a drama, in two acts. From the German of Augustus von Kotzebue; by Benjamin Thomson, Translator of the Stranger, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819.Date: 1799- Books
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An appeal to the public for religious liberty, against the oppressions of the present day. [Three lines from Galatians]
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A concise account of the material events and atrocities, which occurred in the present rebellion, With the causes which produced them, and an answer to Veritas's vindication of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the town of Wexford. By Veridicus.
Musgrave, Richard, Sir, 1757?-1818.Date: 1799