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Vindiciæ pharmacapolæ, or an answer to the doctors complaints against apothecaries : Ou poies eas mia chelidōn.
T. CDate: [1675?]- Books
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The catologue of contented cuckolds : or, a loving society of confessing brethren of the forked order, &c. who being met together in a tavern, declar'd each man his condition, resolving to be contented, and drown'd melancholly in a glass of necktar. To the tune of, Fond boy, &c. or, love's a sweet passion, &c.
Date: [1685?]- Books
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A vvatch for a wise mans observation.
Date: 1677- Books
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Multum in parvo: or, brief miscellaneous poems on divine and moral subjects: To which is subjoined, A Pathetical Expostulation with the Rev. Mr. - Minister of the Gospel at. - Intended as an humble Advice for promoting the Education of Youth, and a Warning against unnecessary and rash Swearing. By James M'farlane, M. A. School Master at Port of Monteith.
McFarlane, James, schoolmaster at Port of Monteith.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Books
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The seasons. Considered as representing the different periods of man's life - as evidences of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God - and as Motives to incite to Piety and Devotion. By James Maxwell, Poet in Paisley.
Maxwell, James, 1720-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The herald of love, being a choice collection of valentines and answers, for various trades, &c. With a valentine to a waterman.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The beginning, progress, and end of man.
Date: 1654- Books
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A watch for a wise mans observation : in two parts. First, a divine poem on the three persons in the Holy Trinity, the four evangelists, the ten commandements, and the twelve apostles. The second, a preparation (by a holy life) for the hour of death, that we may be all fitted for our latter end, when we shall go hence, and be no more seen. By D.B.
Date: [1690]- Books
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The hampshire tragedy: shewing how a servant maid first robbed her master, and was afterwards struck dead for telling a lie. A true story. Cheap Repository.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The conjurer; or Metamorphoses of Pride and Humility: an humorous Poetical Tale: Intended as a Moral Entertainment for both Sexes in their Youth, as well as a Diversion for Those in Riper Years. Decorated with 23 Copper Plates elegantly Engrav'd. From Study sometimes Thoughts shou'd be unbent, To laugh at Stories - if they're innocent.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.
Date: [1688]- Books
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Rub for rub: or, an answer to a physicians pamphlet, styled, The stroker stroked.
Date: printed in the year 1666- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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A right godly and Christian A.B.C. shewing the duty of every degree : To the tune of Rogero.
Date: [1625]- Books
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A review of the debate now in agitation, amongst the Baptists in the west of England; the subject of unscriptural prayers and doxologies. By a friend to all parties.
Friend to all parties.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Englands monethly observations and predictions, for the yeare of our blessed Saviour, 1653 : Fore-told by those two famous astrologers of our age, Mr. William Lilly, and Mr. Culpeper. The tune is. Faire angel of England.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681Date: [1653]- Books
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A small but choice collection of curious pieces; viz. I. The hours of love: in four Elegies: viz. Night, Morning, Noon, and Evening. II. The pleasures of a single life; or, the Miseries of Matrimony, by Sir John Dillon. III. An ode to the Honourable H-y F-x, Esq; on the Marriage of the D-s of M-r to - H-ss-y, Esq; by the late Sir C. H. W. IV. Heloisa to Abelard, by Mr. Pope, with an Answer, by Mrs. M-. V. Abelard to Eloisa, by a gentleman of Cambridge.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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The preacher's assistant, (after the manner of Mr. Letsome) containing a series of the texts of sermons and discourses published either singly, or in volumes, by divines of the Church of England, and by the dissenting clergy, since the Restoration to the present time, specifying also the several authors alphabetically arranged under each text - with the size, date, occasion, or subject matter of each sermon or discourse, By John Cooke, M.A. late chaplain of Christ-Church, Oxford, and rector of Wentnor, Salop. ...
Cooke, John, active 1783.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The trifler. A satire, inscribed to Lord - by George Caswall.
Caswall, George, 1722?-Date: 1767 [1766]- Books
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The newcastle sportsmen; or, a race to hell! between three noted characters of the present day, viz. A hipocritical and debauched Clergyman, A cruel Military Man, and A religious Corn Dealer, a Monopolizer of Provisions, and a Starver of the Poor; with a postscript. A satire. By Thomas Houston. Likewise, a love elegy; with three odes; Intended as Hints to such as will take them, by his learned friend, Cuthbert Cudgel, Esq.
Houston, Thomas, 1777-1803.Date: [1800]- Books
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Addenda in the tenth - an enlarged edition of A selection of hymns from the best authors, by J. Rippon, D.D.
Date: 1800- Books
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Lintoun - - address to His Highness the Prince of Orange.
Pennecuik, Alexander, 1652-1722.Date: 1714- Books
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A marvelous medicine to cure a great pain, if a maiden-head be lost to get it again.
Date: 1664?]- Books
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A New copy of verses, intituled and called, Lady Godiva's farewell to Coventry. Tune, - Vicar of Bray.
Date: 1784]- 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]