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Security for life and property. Those who wish to enjoy the satisfaction arising from a perfect confidence that their property is inviolably secured, ... are respectfully informed that patent locks, the admired invention of Mr. Bramah, engineer, ... are sold by commission at B. Hobson's, ironmonger, York. ...
Date: 1800?]- Books
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The wards of the key to Helmont proved unfit for the lock, or, The principles of Mr. William Bacon examined and refuted : and the honour and value of true chymistry asserted / by John Case.
Case, John, active 1680-1700Date: 1682- Books
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The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master.
Keys, John.Date: [1780]- Books
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A key to The tutor and scholar's assistant. By Joseph Saul.
Saul, Joseph, active 1797.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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Considerations on the nature, causes, cure, and prevention of pestilences; being a Collection of Papers, Published on that Subject by The Free - Thinker.
Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Principles of surgery, for the use of chirurgical students. Part the first. By John Pearson, Surgeon To the Lock Hospital, and to the Public Dispensary.
Pearson, John, 1758-1826.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Britain's hero: a poem on the death of his Grace John, Duke of Marlborough.
Giles, Jacob.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening. Containing such observations and experiments as are new and useful for the improvement of land. With An Account of such extraordinary Inventions, and natural Productions, as may help the Ingenious in their Studies, and promote universal Learning. ... . With variety of curious cutts. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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Serious considerations on plays, games, and other fashionable diversions. Shewing the sinfulness, and dangerous tendency thereof. By John Geere, of Farnham, Surry.
Geere, John.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Burglary and robbery. On Monday night, or yesterday morning, the 2d of December, the Muster Master General's Office in the Lower Castle-yard, was entered by some person or persons yet unknown, and an Iron Chest that lay therein, which was locked and pad-locked, was opened by means of skeleton keys, out of which the following property was stolen, viz.
Ireland.Date: 1794]- Books
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The key. As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The gentleman farrier. Containing instructions for the choice, and directions in the management of horses, either for draught or pleasure, on a journey, or in the stable; with an account of their distempers, and receipts for the cure of them. To which is added an appendix, concerning dogs, either for the Field or the Lap, wherein their diseases are describ'd, and the means to cure them. The horse-receipts by his late Grace of Devonshire, Earl of Orrery, Lord Carleton, Sir John Packington, General Seymour, Portman Seymour, Esq; James Nicholson, Esq; - Thornton, Esq; of Bloxham, &c. Published by the direction of a person of quality.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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Williams's new universal psalmodist, containing I. A new and complete introduction to psalmody, or, the Art of Singing Psalms, &c. Interspersed with many useful Scales and Examples, explained in the most familiar Method ever yet publish'd. To which is added, new, plain and concise Rules for Composition. II. The most valuable collection of psalm and hymn tunes, canons and anthems, many of which were never before printed; also the Tunes, Anthems, &c. sung at the Magdalen, Foundling, Lock, and other Places of Worship in and about London, with Words adapted to each Tune. The whole compos'd in a new and easy taste, For two, three or four Voices, in the most familiar Keys and Cliffs now used and recommended by the most eminent Masters: The whole calculated to promote and improve this most excellent Part of social Worship; and thereby render it both useful and delightful in Country Choirs: Likewise, all Congregations and other religious Societies in Great Britain, Ireland and America.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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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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The Gallimaufry; or, Budget of momus: second edition, with additions. Containing the tinker's song, and beggar's song, in the Pantomime of Merry Sherwood. Prologue to the farce of Crotchet Lodge. The comic song of the waiter. The strolling player and the farmer, a tale. Epilogue to speculation. Money is your friend, a comic song. A plague on both your houses. The poor old woman of eighty. Two new songs in the farce of lock and key. The Dutch fisherman. Song, sung by Mr. Munden, in the mysteries of the castle. And the favorite song of the Gloucestershire bumpkin.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Hecuba. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants.
Euripides.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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The Earl of Warwick; or, British exile. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants. By Mr. Tolson.
Tolson, Francis, -1745 or 1746.Date: [1719]- Books
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The gallimaufry; or, budget of Momus: containing the tinker's song, and beggar's song, in the pantomime of Merry Sherwood. Prologue to The farce of Crotchet Lodge. The comic song of the waiter. The strolling player and the farmer, a Tale. Epilogue to speculation. Money is your friend, a comic song. A plague on both your houses. The poor old woman of eighty. Two new songs in the Farce of lock and key. The Dutch fisherman. Song, sung by Mr. Munden, in the Mysteries of the castle.
Date: [1796?]- Books
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Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. By William Blair, A. M. Surgeon of the Lock Hospital and Finsbury Dispensary, &c. First part of the first essay. On the antivenereal Effects of Nitrous Acid and other analogous Remedies; exhibiting a Summary of the Evidence adduced by various Practitioners, with sixtyone original Cases.
Blair, William, 1766-1822.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Late Learned Antiquarian, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Esq; and of some other collections of books lately purchased; Which will begin to be sold by auction, on Monday the 21st of November 1768, in the auction-room below Balfour's Coffee-house. Among which are, folio. Rymer's f̂D oedera, 10 vols Rapin and Tindal, 5 vols Ancient and Mod. univ. hist. 27 vols Biographia Britannica, 7 vols Anderson's diplomata general dictionary, 10 vols The ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, 2 vols Campbell's Vitruvius Britan. 2 vols, fine plates Stephani thesaurus ling. Gr. 4 vols - thesaurus ling. Lat. 4 vols Thucydides, Duckeri Herodotus, Wesselingii, Gr. et Lat. Dionis cassii opera, reimarii, 2 vols Po ̈ etæ græci princip. apud steph. Plinius, Harduini, 3 vols Lucianus, Bourdelotii Dictionaire de Bayle, meil. ed. 4 vols - de Savary 3 v. meil. ed. - de Furetiere, 4 vols - de Moreri, 4 vols Virgilius de la Cerda, 3 vols Madox's history of the exchequer Alberti Sebæ hist. nat. 4 vols Atlas universel, par Robert, G.P. hist. des arts et metiers, 36 parties encyclopedie, par d'alembert, &c. 25 vols Horsley's Britan, Roman. Harris's voyages, 2 vols Bacon, Boyle, and Locke's works Johnson, Savary, Ainsworth, Chambers, Millar, and Bayle's dict. Kniphossii herb. vivum cent. octo. 2 vols state trials, 10 vols Macdowall's institutes 3 vols, L.P. and all the other Scots law-books. Spelmanni gloslarium, edit. opt. Mariana's history of Spain originis opera, Gr. & Lat 4 vols biblia polyglotta, cum lexicon heptaglotton, 8 vols critici sacri, 10 vols Calvini opera, edit. opt. 9 vols Socinus, Crellius, &c. 9 vols (Vide next page.) Time of sale from four to eight. Catalougues to be had at the shop of A. Kincaid and J. Bell.
A. Kincaid and J. Bell (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections, illustrated by a variety of cases. Essay I. - Part I. On the antivenereal effects of nitrous acid, oxygenated muriate of potash, and several analogous remedies, which have been lately proposed as substitutes for mercury. By William Blair, A. M. Surgeon of the lock hospital and asylum, and of the old finsbury dispensary.
Blair, William, 1766-1822.Date: [1798]- Books
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The magazines blown up; or, they are all in the suds. Being a full and true account of the apprehending and taking of the notified Pentweazle, an Oxford scholar; in the Shape of an Old Woman: With his Examination before the Right Worshipful Justice Banter, and his Commitment to the New-Prison. Together with an Account of his Impeachment of divers others, who were concern'd in many late barbarous Attempts on the Senses of his Majesty's liege Subjects. - With a right and true List of all their Names, who were taken, last Night, at a House of ill Fame near St. Paul's. - With their whole Examination and Commitment by the said Gentleman. To which is added, A Key to the Back - Door. The whole done in plain English, by Whacum Smack'em,
Whacum Smack'em.Date: [1768?]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and found Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The second edition, corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1776- Books
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Jachin and Boaz; or, an authentic key to the door of Free-Masonry, both ancient and modern. Calculated not only for the Instruction of every New made mason, but also for the Information of all who intend to become Brethren. Containing, I. A circumstantial Account of all the Proceedings in making a Mason with the several Obligations of an Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master; the Prayers, and also the Sign, Grip, and Pass - Word of each Degree, with the Ceremony of the Mop and Pail. II. The Manner of opening a Lodge, and setting the Craft to work. III. The Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master's Lectures, verbatim, as delivered in all Lodges; with the Song at the Conclusion of each Part. IV. The Origin of Masonry; Description of Solomon's Temple; History of the Murder of the Grand Master Hiram by the three Fellow-Crafts; their Discovery and Punishment; the Burial of Hiram by King Solomon's Order, with the Five Points of Fellowship, &c. V. The Ceremony of the Instalment of the Masters of different Lodges on St. John's Day. - Description of the Regalia, &c. VI. Ceremonies used at the Funeral of a Mason. Vii. A safe and easy Method proposed by which a Man may obtain Admittance into any Lodge, without passing through the Form required, and thereby save a Guinea or two in his Pocket. Viii. Anthems, Odea, Songs, &c. Illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece of the regalia, Jewels, and Emblematical Ornaments belonging to Masonry. And an accurate plan of the drawing on the floor of a lodge. Interspersed with Variety of notes and remarks, Necessary to explain and render the whole clear to the meanest Capacity. To which is now added, A New and accurate list of all the English Regular Lodges in the World, according to their Seniority, with the Dates of each Constitution, and Days of Meeting. By a gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge; a frequent Visitor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-Yard; the Horn, in Fleet-Street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-Street. Try me; prove me.
R. S.Date: 1797- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions both Theoretical and Practical; with a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety, and Beauty. Also, A strict Enquiry into the present Manner of Building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and sound Reason: with a new criterion, or universal estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate for the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wheresoever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Jobb; with practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Sorts of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring all the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, a treatise of arithmetic, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. By Thomas Skaife, P. A. Carpenter and Joiner.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]