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Remarks on the principal acts of the thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain. By the author of Letters concerning the present state of Poland. Vol. I. Containing remarks on the acts relating to the colonies. With a plan of reconciliation.
Lind, John, 1737-1781.Date: MDCCLXXV [1775]- Books
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A discourse concerning trouble of mind and the disease of melancholly : in three parts : written for the use of such as are, or have been exercised by the same / by Timothy Rogers ... ; to which are annexed, some letters from several divines, relating to the same subject.
Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728Date: 1691- Books
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A prospect of exterminating the small pox : part II, being a continuation of a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America : together with Practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode oftreating the variola vaccina, or kine pock : including some letters to the author, from distinguished characters, on the subject of this benign remedy : now passing with a rapid step through all ranks of society in Europe and America / by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.Date: 1802 [i.e. 1803?]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements. Very useful for all Landlords and Tenants, of Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Lands, containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof, also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Horn-Beam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of the Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the excellency of the White-Lamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills, with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton, Esqr; of Clarkenwel, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for one Year. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow grass. Also a method how to save the Seed of Lucern. V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting up, Thoroughing down, four Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way or Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a new invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draws a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Hoeing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several uses on Ploughed and Sward grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a Year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements, very useful for all landlords and tenants, of Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Lands, containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof, also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Horn-Beam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel. White-Older, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of the Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills, with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esqr; of Clarkenwel, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow grass. Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land ploughing, Bouting up, Thoroughing down, four Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way or Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel Ploughs; also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmaker, and a new invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draws a single one. VII. Of Sowing in general. VIII. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Hoeing its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several uses on Ploughed and Sward grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a Year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
A discourse concerning trouble of mind, and the disease of melancholly. In three parts. Written for the use of such as are, or have been exercised by the same / By Timothy Rogers, M.A. who was long afflicted with both. To which are annexed, some letters from several divines, relating to the same subject.
Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.Date: 1691- Books
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A discourse concerning trouble of mind, and the disease of melancholy. In three parts. Written for the Use of such as are, or have been Exercised by the same. The second edition. Corrected. By Timothy Rogers, M. A. who was long afflicted with both. To which are annexed, letters from several divines, relating to the same subject.
Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.Date: 1706- Books
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Reveries, or, memoirs concerning the art of war. By Maurice Count de Saxe, Marshal-General of the Armies of France. To which is annexed, his Treatise concerning legions; or, a plan for new-modelling the French armies. Illustrated with copper-plates. Together with letters on various military Subjects, wrote by the Marshal to several eminent Persons; and The Author's Reflections on the Propagation of the Human Species. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed an account of the life of the author.
Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Reveries, or, memoirs concerning the art of war. By Maurice Count de Saxe, Marshal-General of the Armies of France. To which is annexed, his Treatise concerning legions; or, a plan for new-modelling the French armies. Illustrated with copper-plates. Together with letters on various military Subjects, wrote by the Marshal to several eminent Persons; and, The Author's Reflections on the Propagation of the Human Species. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed an account of the life of the author.
Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Mille testes. Against atheists, deists, and scepticks; Testifying, First, The Cause of Causes, the eternal Mind and Being of God in Trinity and Unity. Secondly, The Truth and Authority of the holy Scriptures. Thirdly, Divine Providence. Fourthly, The Immortality of the Soul or Mind; and the State thereof here, and in its separate State from the Body. Fifthly, An Enquiry into the Tenents of the Soul-Sleeper, in his Book of Second and Farther Thoughts; and how unagreeable to the holy Scriptures, Reason, and Philosophy: Also Mr. Dodwell's epistolary Discourse, concerning the Soul's natural Mortality, consider'd. Collected with observations and animadversions, by F. de Veteri Campo.
Oldfield, F.Date: [1706]- Books
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Two letters, written by a minister of the Gospel to a gentleman, concerning professor Campbell's divinity Letter I. Wherein his scheme concerning the origine, or primary source of moral virtue, contained in his answer to the author of the fable of the bees, is shewed to be irrational, and antiscriptural. Letter II. Wherein his discourse, proving that the apostles were no enthusiasts, is considered; and the poisonous nature of enthusiasm, together with his mistakes of it, are detected.
Hog, James, 1658?-1734.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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A letter to the learned Caleb Cotesworth ... Containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation ... To which is subjoined, an account of the success of inoculation in New England; as likewise an extract from several letters concerning a like method of communicating the small pox, that has been used time out of mind in South Wales / [James Jurin].
Jurin, James, 1684-1750Date: 1723- Books
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Letter III. To the freemen of Alnwick. Various are the conjectures and manifold the opinions, my good brother-freemen, that have been formed concerning the author of my first and second letters; some having attributed themto one craftsman, some to another, and others again to no craftsman to all. ...
Richardson, Robert, junior, Clerk to the Council.Date: 1781]- Books
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Two letters, The one concerning the present sentiments of the people of Great Britain, particularly with respect to Mr. Knight, late cashier of the South Sea Company. The other containing a comparison between the suicide of the ancient Romans and that so frequent of late among the English. The former directed to the author of the London Journal. The latter directed to Mr. Mist.
Cato.Date: 1721- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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A plain account of the ordinance of baptism; in which all the texts of the New Testament, relating to it, are produced, and the whole doctrine concerning it drawn from them alone: in a course of letters to the Right Reverend Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, late Lord Bishop of Winchester, author of A plain account of the Lord's Supper. [Two lines of text]
Foot, William, 1707-1782.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The occasional paper. Vol. III. Numb. IV. Containing several letters. Viz. I. To the author of this paper; upon a Remarkable Saying, insisted on by Dr. Biss, in his Sermons on the Beauty of Holiness in the Common-Prayer. II. Remarks upon a passage in Dr. Biss's, and another in Dr. Lupton's sermons, before the Sons of the Clergy; concerning the Authority of the Fathers, in interpreting Scripture: Directed to the Author of this Paper. III. A letter directed to the author of Vulgar prepossessions in favour of th Bishop of Bangor: By a Well-Wisher to the Occasional-Paper. IV. A letter from Mr. De la Pillonniere, to the Author of this Paper; allowing him to publish a Letter of Mr. Cotton Mather of New-England. V. Mr. Cotton Mather's letter to Mr. De la Pillonniere; Printed from the Original.
Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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A plain account of the ordinance of baptism; in which all the texts of the New Testament, relating to it, are produced, and the whole Doctrine concerning it drawn from them alone: in a course of letters to the Right Reverend Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, late Lord Bishop of Winchester. Author of a Plain Account of the Lord's Supper. By William Foot. The third edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements; by Joshua Toulmin, A.M.
Foot, William, 1707-1782.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
An authentic narrative of the success of tar water, in curing a great number and variety of distempers; with remarks ... Carefully abridged / To which are subjoined, two letters from the author of Siris: shewing the medicinal properties of tar water, and the best manner of making it.
Prior, Thomas, 1681-1751.Date: 1793- Books
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Three tracts, viz. I. A discourse concerning persecution, wherein the grounds upon which Christians afflict and grieve, and bereave each other of life, for their different opinions in matters of religion, are Examin'd. II. A letter of thanks to the author of the tract intituled, A friendly admonition to Mr. Chubb. III. Some remarks on Dr. Morgan's tract, intitled, A letter to Mr. Chubb, occasioned by his two Letters to a Friend. By Tho. Chubb.
Chubb, Thomas, 1679-1747.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of The proposal to the ladies and Mr. John Norris: Wherein his late Discourse, shewing, That it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other Loves, is further Cleared and Justified. Published by J. Norris, M. A. Rector of Bemerton near Sarum. The second edition, corrected by the authors, with some few things added.
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731.Date: 1705- Books
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Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of The proposal to the ladies and Mr. John Norris: Wherein his late Discourse, shewing, That it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other Loves, is further Cleared and Justified. Published by J. Norris, M. A. late Rector of Bemerton near Sarum. The third edition, corrected by the authors, with some few things added.
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731.Date: 1730- Books
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Four letters originally written in French, relating to the kingdon of Ireland, accompanied with remarks. To which is added, a fifth letter by the same author, containing a computation of the number of inhabitants in all the kingdoms and chief cities of Europe, with a conjecture concerning the number of all the people that have lived upon the face of the earth, from the creation to the present time.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Veritas in semente: or, a moderate discourse concerning the principles and practices of the Quakers. With Some Thoughts on the Salvability of the Heathens and on two Points wherein Satisfaction is requir'd of the Quakers. The second edition. To which are prefix'd, two letters to a bishop, on the salvation of the heathen, in defence of the Author's Thoughts on that Subject.
Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.Date: 1707- Books
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Five letters, viz. I. Some Conjectures concerning an Eternal Creation. II. That there was from Eternity a Fitness and Unfitness, in the Nature of Things, by which the Will of God was always determined. III. Reflections on the Duties we owe to God and one another. Together with Remarks on some of the Jewish Revelations. In a Dialogue between Saul and Samuel. IV. That God was not the First Institutor of Sacrifices, wherein the Case of Abraham offering up his Son, is fully reasoned; and Moses vindicated from the Aspersion generally thrown upon him, of making God the Author of that Command. V. Concerning the Evidence necessary to ascertain the Divinity of those Revelations which require us to do any Action.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]