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The history of England, from the Norman conquest to the present time; or, a tragi-comic song, in four parts, to the tune of - When Troy town for ten years war, &c. AN Useful, Instructive, and Diverting Lesson for those who have not Time to read Large Books. He that delights in Hist'ry, soon may find Something to please, and edify the Mind. A true Historic Tale, when rightly told, Will please the Young, and can't displease the Old: Such is my Theme, 'tis founded on the Truth, Meant chiefly to persuade vain thoughtless Youth To let the Hist'ry of strange Lands alone, Till they get thorough Masters of their own: This my Advice -- and he that likes to look At what I've done, pays Three-Pence for this Book; And when he's learn'd the Song through ev'ry Part, And can with Ease repeat it all by Heart, If it should chance to enter in his Thought That its too dear, I'll give him back a Groat. To which is added, the multiplication table in a song. By N. Withy, of Hagley, Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: 1785- Books
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The way to plenty; or, the second part of Tom White.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1796]- Pictures
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i- Books
Medical theory and therapeutic practice in the eighteenth century : a transatlantic perspective / edited by Jürgen Helm, Renate Wilson.
Date: 2008- Books
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An introduction to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book, suited to the tender capacities of children: (adorned with cuts.) Containing, A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently, fitted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words - Fables. - Extracts from History. - The Church Catechism. - Graces and Prayers. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - An Introduction to Grammar, &c. The sixth edition: By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1785?]- Books
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A comment on the Rev'd Mr. Warburton's Alliance between church and state. Shewing that an ecclesiastical-establishment and a test-law are not supportable on his reasoning; either, from the Essence and End of Civil Society, or, from the fundamental Principles of the Law of Nature and Nations. Herein His two famous Illustrations from Prescription and the Game-Laws are examined - The Quaker's Scruples about Tythes are clearly resolved - And a few Observations on Mr. White's Letters to a Dissenting-Gentleman are occasionally interspersed. Together With some natural and useful Reflexions.
Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The interest of Great Britain consider'd; In an essay upon Wool, Tin and Leather: Proving by Instances of Fact, That the Misfortunes which has attended this Kingdom for above four hundred Years last past, has been chiefly Occasion'd by the Neglect of our Commerce; and that the Ballance of Power in Christendom, is by the Ballance of Trade. With some Remarks upon the Conceptions of Sir Josiah Child. Written by - J. B.
Blanch, John, 1649 or 1650-Date: 1707- Books
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Anecdotes relative to our affairs in Germany: carried back to The Debarking of the first British Regiment at Emden; and brought down to the present critical Time: in a series of letters to a noble lord in - shire. Authenticated By a Gentleman on the Spot, and confirmed by his Correspondents here, during the War. In this Tract is Elucidated The Nature of the French Commissariate; and a Parallel drawn between theirs, and the British Commissaries. As also An Explanation of the French Embodied Militia, and a comparison made, in Respect to our own.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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An introduction. to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book suited to all ages and capacities of children: (adorned with cuts) Containing A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently sirted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words. - Fables. - Extracts from History. - Tables of Arithmetic. - Exercising Questions in Verse. - The Church Catechism. - Scripture Institutes and Examples. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - And other useful Instructions. The fifth edition. With additions and improvements. By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The Oxfordshire garland. In four parts
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The 'squire of St. James's.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
The Army nursing service in the eighteenth century / by Jessie Dobson.
Dobson, Jessie, 1906-1984.Date: 1954]- Books
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Ode to the privateer-commanders of Great Britain: being a parody on Mr. Mason's Ode to the naval officers of Great Britain. Written, immediately after reading his Ode, April the sixteenth, 1779. By - - -, B. A.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The politick wife: or, the devil outwitted by a woman.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1765- Books
The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan.
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724Date: [2012]- Pictures
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Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16595i- Books
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The royal courtly garland. Or, joy after sorrow.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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An historical essay upon the government of the Church of England, from the earliest to the present times. Exhibiting the true causes of the separation from Rome, in the Reign of Henry Viii. And the Review - intended at the Revolution. With a vindication of the measures of Henry Viii. Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, from the calumnies of a popish writer, published in the First and Second Volumes of an History, entitled, The Church History of England, from the Year 1500, to the Year 1688, chiefly with Regard to Catholicks. Being A Compleat Account of the Divorce, Supremacy, Dissolution of Monasteries, and first Attempts for a Reformation under King Henry Viii. the unsettled State of the Resormation under Edward VI. the Interruption it met with from Queen Mary, with the last Hand put to it by Queen Elizabeth. And a preface, Containing a Summary of the false Facts and Principles advanced by the Catholic-Historian. By George Reynolds, L. L. D. Archdeacon of Lincoln.
Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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A memorial of the proceedings of the late ministery and Lower House of Parliament. With an account of several secret correspondences with foreign ministers of state, Letters and Messages, sent from London to Paris and Utrecht, and from Utrecht and Paris to London; Abstracts of Speeches, Addresses, Answers, &c. with Reflections upon each Head. To which is added, A short History of a Plot to dethrone Queen Anne, and what has been attempted to bring in the Romish Pretender, since the King ascended the Throne. At the end of the Memorial is a Black List of the Names of many of those Persons concern'd in one or both Conspiracies. Also Particulars cast up in it, of Men, Horses, Money, Provisions, Cloaths, Quarters, Arms, Ammunition, &c. promis'd to the Assistance of the Treason. Writ by the author of An inquiry into the miscarriages of the four last years reign The Copic are Counterseit that have not this Coat of Arms on the Title-Page, viz. A Bend engrail'd between Six Cinque - foils, Crest a Griffin's Head out of a Mural Coronet.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: [1715]- Books
A doctor's bill of 1743 / R.H. Osborne.
Osborne, R. H.Date: 1993- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
Date: 1798]- Books
The little republic : masculinity and domestic authority in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen Harvey.
Harvey, Karen, 1971-Date: 2012- Pictures
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A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 15 June 1793Reference: 16968i- Books
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The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.
Date: [1736 - 1763]