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The Belfast town and country almanack, for the year 1795. (Being the third after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, eclipses of the sun and moon-sun's rising and setting-moon's quarters, age, and southing-number of days in each month-days in the week for every month of the year-observations to each month-monthly fairs-common notes-feasts-terms-the royal family-Bristol and Chester fairs. Stamp-duties on bills. D...is, and receipts, in ... likewise, 1. An ingenious calculation, - page 2 2. The country-man's weather-wiser; or Proguolties of the weather from vegetables - ... 3. A droll Irish advertisemant, - ... 4. A sunny parable to report-catchers, ... 5. The coxcomb and barber's boy, - - - 4 6. The Irishman in love, - - - - 5 7. Making toil of a pleasure, - - - - 6 8. The man and his small wife, - - - 7 9. Anecdote of an Irishman, - - - - 10 10. The quack doctor, - - - - 12 11. A sailor's love-letter to his sweetheart, 13 12. A curious comparison, - - - - 15 13. An Irish bull-inscription in a Church-yard, - 16.
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The psalmist's jewel: or, Family companion to the Book of Psalms, &c. Being, a new exposition on All the One Hundred and Fifty: With Poetical precepts from every Psalm. The Whole are faithfully explained from Sacred History, from Verse to Verse, for the Use of all Christian Families, as well as for Lovers of Psalmody in general: With Expositional Notes, referring to all concording Parts of the Scripture. - Also, An Alphabetical Description of Persons, of Places, and of Things mentioned in the Old and New Testament; and of Christ, Poetically. - With a general Calendar for the Adapting of Psalms to all Occasions; The Life of Holy David: And a New Set of Psalm-Tunes, in Three and Four Musical Parts. - With select Hymns, and Doxologies: And a general Key to the Whole, &c. &c. By William Tans'ur, Senior. - Musico-Theorico. Author of The New Royal Melody; The Elements of Musick Made Easy; Musical Dictionary, &c. &c.
Tans'ur, William, 1699?-1783.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1769. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies; Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1769]- Books
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1787. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year. Common notes and moveable feasts in 1787. Dominical letter - - G golden Number - - - 2 cycle of the sun - - 4 epact - - - - - - 11 Roman indiction - - 5 shrove Sunday 18 Feb. Easter Day - 8 April. Whit Sunday - 27 May. Trinity Sunday 3 June. Advent Sunday 2 Dec. Venus will be a morning Star till the 18th of October, afterwards an evening Star to the year's end. Jupiter is an evening Star till May 24, then a morning Star till Dec. 13, and then an evening Star to the year's end. Six Eclipses will happen this year: I. Jan. 3, moon eclipsed, visible; from 10 at Night, till 35 m. past one in the morning of Jan. 4. II. Jan. 19, sun eclipsed, visible; from 54 m. past nine, till 12 m. past eleven morning. III. June 15, sun eclipsed, visible; from 12 m. past four, till 47 m. past five in the afternoon. IV. June 30, moon eclipsed, invisible; at one in the afternoon. V. Dec. 9, sun eclipsed, invisible; at a Quarter past four in the afternoon. VI. Dec. 24, moon eclipsed, visible; from 42 min. past one, till 32 min. past four in the afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1787]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1768. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. With Emendations to the present Publication.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1768]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1771. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies; Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. To which is added, a Correct list of all the Bankers.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1771]- Books
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English state-lottery, 1794. Begins Drawing February 16, 1795. The Scheme of the present Lottery being entirely different from any former one, - Ten Thousand tickets less, - The Public are requested to observe, that Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (the usual Amount of the Prize-Money) is divided amongst 40,000, instead of 50,000 Tickets, and that there are more Prizes than Blanks in this Lottery, when, in most former ones, there have been from Two to Three Blanks to a Prize. And divided into Half, Fourth, Eighth, and Sixteenth, shares, At their Licensed State-Lottery Offices, No. 104, Bank-Buildings, Cornhill, and No. 8, opposite the King's Mews, Charing-Cross.
Richardson, Goodluck, and Co.Date: 1794]- Books
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Essays and observations on the following subjects. Viz. On trade. - Husbandry of flax. -Raising Banks against Tides and Floods. -Hops. Directions for making Roads. Instructions for making Syder. Observations on the Linen Manufactury. -on Dressing Flax. - on brewing. Published by a Society of Gentlemen in Dublin.
Royal Dublin Society.Date: M,DCC,XL. [1740]- Books
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Observations on the manners, government, and policy of the Greeks. Translated from the French of the learned Abbé Mably. With notes and illustrations by Mr. Chamberland.
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Books
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A Genuine narrative of the lives, characters and trials of the four following malefactors: Viz. James Cotes, for a highway-robbery; Richard William Vaughan for forging and counterfeiting bank-notes, in order to deceive Miss-, his sweetheart; William Stevens for stealing twenty-nine yards of woollen cloth, value eighteen pounds. And William Boodger for forging an inland bill of exchange for the payment of forty pounds. With some account of Richard William Vaughan, and William Stevens, never before published, interspersed in their characters.
Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The bengal calendar & register, for the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety; containing complete and accurate lists of the Honorable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Upon a New and more Exte five Plan than any ever before published in India: comprehending complete views and details of the civil & military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Whole diligently Compiled and Arranged from proper and authentio Documents To which is added a list of the British European subjects, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country; also, the marine department - public banks - insurance companies -Houses Of Agency, and Merchants Of Different Nations, Established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the Pay, Batta, and other Allowances of the Army: &c. &c. &c.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Abstracts from the companion to the grave; or, every man his own undertaker; lately published by the Rev. Augustus Carrion, L. L. D. Of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin;-F. S. A. Chaplain to the Earl of Cavan;-A Governor of the Protestant Charter Schools;-Author of a much truly and justly admired Book, called A Geographical Account of the Magdalens, with historical Notes, representing the Manner of their Seduction;-Also, of an Historical and Chronological Account of all the Archbishops and Bishops that have been for the three last Centuries;-And likewise, of an Historical, Chronological, Philosophical, Philological, Philomedical, and Philantical Account of the late terrible Flood and Overflowings of the river Poddle;-Late Spiritual Comforter to the Magdalens, &c. &c. Comprised in 42 vols. folio. Illustrated with copper plates designed by the author, and engraved by the most eminent Artists in Italy, France, England, and Ireland. With Notes, Historical, Chronological, Explanatory, and Observatory, by the following most ingenious, facetious, and learned Gentlemen:-The Rev. Thomas Carr, D. D. - John Gilbourne, M. D. - The Right Worshipful John Christian, L. L. B. and Deputy Judge of the Admiralty Court;-John Chamberlaine, M. D. late punning Surgeon to the Yacht;-And the Author himself.
Carrion, Augustus.Date: 1778- Books
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the Year of our Lord God 1788. Being the Bissextile, or Leap Year. Common Notes and Moveable-Feasts in 1788. Dominical Letter - - FE Golden Number - - - 3 Cycle of the Sun - - 5 Epact - - - - - - 22 Roman Indiction - - 6 Shrove Sunday 3 Feb. Easter Day - 23 Mar. Whit Sunday - 11 May. Trinity Sunday 18 May. Advent Sunday 30 Nov. Venus will be an Evening Star till the 8th of August, afterwards a Morning Star to the Year's End. Jupiter is an Evening Star till June 29, and then a Morning Star to the Year's End. Two Eclipses will happen this Year: I. June 4, Sun eclipsed, visible. Begins 7h 241/2m. morn. Middle 8 11 End 9 0 Digits eclipsed 3 59. II. November 27, Sun eclipsed, invisible, at 10 minutes past 6, afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1788]- Books
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The [B]elfast town and country almanack, for the year 1793. (Being the first after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, [r]ising and setting; moon's southing for every day ... week, and every month in the year; month & ... days; holidays, & monthly fairs, page 4. to 15. ...lipses of the sun & moon; common notes & move-feasts; -four quarterly terms, - page 16. ... family; royal navy; and army-pay, page 2.... Bristol and Chester, - - page 15. ... abstract of the stamp-duties on bills, receipts, in Britain, which commenced august 1. 1791, p. 3. Likewise, ...histle. A story by Dr Franklin, - - page 10. ... and revolution of the Earth and planets, page3. Improvement for the management of bees, page 3. ... of some of the most considerable towns, with their ... of inhabitants, - - - - page16. ... proclamation for holding a Scots fair, page 14. ... letter to his wife, - - page 4.
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Robbery and rewards. Whereas about two o'clock on Saturday morning the 13th inst. the house of Isaac Ambrose Eccles, Esq; at Cronroe, in the county of Wicklow, was burglariously broke open, by several men disguised, two of whom violently forced open his bed-chamber, demanded his money, bank-notes, &c. and feloniously took two gold-watches (one made by Graham, London, the other an old chased watch, made by John and Moses Fountain, London, number 260) about twenty guineas in cash, and a large quantity of plate, consisting of the following articles, five forks, two-grained, crest, a broken halbert; ...
Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1777-1780 : Buckinghamshire)Date: [1779]- Books
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Explanation of the notes, Marks, Words, &c, Used in Music by I. W. Callcott, Bac. Mus. Organist of St. Pauls Covent Garden, and the Asylum, Entd. at Stationers Hall. - Price 10s. 6d.
Callcott, John Wall, 1766-1821.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Cours de thêmes libres, où, par gradation, les difficultés, les Tournures, & les Idiomes de la Composition, sont notés, expliqués, & raisonnés, suivant les principes de la grammaire, & le vrai génie de la langue italienne. Par M. Peretti, Professeur DE Langue Italienne.
Peretti, Vincenzo.Date: [1796]- Books
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The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, viz. Of the Church of Rome, --- England, --- Scotland, - Nonjurors, - Lutherans, - Presbyterians, Of the Independents, - Baptists in general, - Quakers, -- Antinomians, - Moravians, - Methodists in general. Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: With a general Account of the various Sectaries of less Note, since the first Establishment of Christianity. Including a general History of the Reformation, and so much of Civil and Ecclesiastical History as is connected with, or necessary to explain and illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Dictionary of the principal Religious Orders, Offices, Days, Rites, Customs, Habits, and Characters; the most important Transactions of Ecclesiastical Councils, Synods, &c. explaining all such ambiguous Words and Phrases as have a proper Connexion with the Subjects of this History. By an impartial hand.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The American coast pilot; containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes and headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulph of Florida, with directions for sailing into the same, describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. Together with the courses and distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the currents, with the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours on the coast. Together with a tide table. By Capt. Lawrence Furlong. Corrected and improved by the most experienced pilots in the United States - Also, information to masters of vessels, wherein the manner of transacting business at the custom-houses is fully elucidated. Published according to act of Congress.
Furlong, Lawrence, 1734-1806.Date: - 1798- Books
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The law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-notes, and insurances: Containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, judgments, decrees, and customs of merchants concerning them, methodically digested. Together with rules and examples for computing the exchange between England and the principal places of trade in Europe. Also the arbitrations of exchange set in a clear and rational light, and illustrated with variety of examples. By T. Cunningham, Esq;
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-notes, and insurances: Containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, judgments, decrees, and customs of merchants concerning them, methodically digested. Together with rules and examples for computing the exchange between England and the principal places of trade in Europe. Also the arbitrations of exchange set in a clear and rational light, and illustrated with variety of examples. By T. Cunningham, Esq;
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The Gospel-history, from the text of the four evangelists. With explanatory notes. In five books. To which are subjoined, tables-of the chapters and verses of each evangelist, with references to the pages of this work in which they are to be found; - of the miracles, parables, and discourses, of Christ; -and of the several years from his birth to his ascension, with the corresponding years of the Julian period, Olympiads, and years of Rome, the times of the Passover, and the important events of Profane history. By Mr. Robert Wait, minister of Galston.
Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A complete system of book-keeping, after the Italian method: in two parts. Part I. relating to theory, contains Rules for that Purpose never printed before in any Language; so few and short as to be learnt almost in an Instant, and retained without burthening the Memory; and so plain and perfect as that three Hours, or less, are sufficient to teach this whole Branch of it by them. - As also an Explanation of the Manner of keeping Accounts in two Sorts of Specie, namely, Domestic and Foreign for one and the same Article: without which neither Merchants who send Consignments abroad, or receive any Goods from thence for their own Accounts; nor Proprietors of Estates in Ireland, or else-where abroad, who reside here, can keep regular Accounts, and vice versa. - To which is added the Manner of keeping Bank, India, and other Stock after the Italian Method. - As likewise some Candid Animadversions on the erroneous and Imperfect Method of Book-Keeping taught and practised among us, contained in an Essay on Book-Keeping, &c. by Wm. Webster. Part II. relating to practice, contains a Plan of Commerce adapted to the Rules aforesaid, giving proper Examples of every Manner in which a Merchant can engage in Trade, and of the various Cases which may occur to him therein. -As also Directions how to apply the Italian Method of Book-Keeping, on the one Hand, to the Use of Warehousemen, Shopkeepers, &c. and of Proprietors of Estates, Stewards, &c. on the other. - Together with the Form of an Epitome, or Monthly Abstract of a Merchant's Books of Account; very proper to carry always about him, not only for disburthening his Memory, and enabling him to carry on his Business with a less Capital, but to shew him the State of his Affairs, if his Books should be destroyed by Fire, or any other Accident. By John London, late of Tiverton, Merchant.
London, John, merchant.Date: 1758- Books
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The genuine life of William Cox, the notorious robber, who was executed pursuant to his sentence, on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1773. For robbing Mr. John Kendrick, of bank-notes and cash to the amount of four hundred and forty pounds: Containing A Recital of some of the most artful Robberies ever committed in this Kingdom; with an Account of his Behaviour when under Sentence of Death in the Cells of Newgate.
Date: [1774?]