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The art of painting, in all its branches, methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters; and their Perfections and Oversights laid open By Gerard de Lairesse. Translated by John Frederick Fritsch, Painter.
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
Annals of the kingdom of Ireland / by the Four masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from mss. in the library of the Royal Irish academy and of Trinity College, Dublin, with a translation and copious notes, by John O'Donovan.
Date: 1856- Books
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The gentleman and citizen's almanack for the year of our Lord, 1729. Being the First after Bissertile or Leap-Year. Containing A Table of the Terms and their Returns; A Table of Eclipses; The Days of the Year, very necessary for finding the Number of Days, or Weeks between any two Days in the Year; The Days of the Month; The Week Days, set down in their Names at large, which they commonly go by; The Rising and Setting of the Sun; The Moon's Age; The New Stile, or Gregorian Kalendar; A Table of Equation, shewing how much faster or slower than the Sun-Dial, a good Clock or Watch will go every Day this Year; A Tide-Table; A Table of the Price of Goods, at 112l. to the Hundred; The Post-Towns in Ireland; A Table of the Beginning, Ending and Length of Morning and Evening Twilight, for every 10th Day of the Year; The Swearing Days of the Masters of the Corporations of Dublin: The 4 Quarterly Assemblies of the City of Dublin; A Table of Coin. A Table of Simple Interest at 7 per Cent. A Table of Purchase at 6, 7, 8, and 10l. per Cent, Compound Interest: A Catalogue of the Principal Kings and Princes in Europe, with the Time of their Births and Ages; And a Regal Table from K. Henry 7. With an Explanation of the Whole prefixed. Also, the Roads and Fairs.
Watson, John, -1769.Date: [1729]- Books
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Cocker's arithmetic. Being a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity, for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest schoolmasters in city and country. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetic, and engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. Perused and published by John Hawkins, writing-masters near St. George's Church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy, and recommended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'Estrange. Revised and corrected by John Mair.
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: M,DCC,LVII. [1757]- Books
Science and medicine in the Old South / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt.
Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
Cocker's arithmetick: being, a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity, for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest of school-masters in city and country / by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick, and engraving : being that so long since promised to the world ; perused and published, by John Hawkins, writing-master near St. George's Church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy, and commended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London.
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: 1745- Books
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Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest school-masters in city and country. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick, and engraving. Being that so long since promise'd to the world. Perused [sic] and published by John Hawkins writing-master near St. Georges Church in Southwark, by the authors correct copy, and commended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London. The one and twentieth edition carefully corrected, with additions. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'estrange.
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: 1701- Books
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Cocker's arithmetic: Being a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity, for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest schoolmasters in city and country. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick, and engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. Perused and published by John Hawkins, writing-master near St. George's Church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy and commended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing masters in and near London. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'Estrange. Revised and corrected by John Mair.
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Cocker's arithmetic. Being a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity, for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest schoolmasters in city and country. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetic and engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. Perused and published by John Hawkins, writing-master near St. George's Church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy, and recommended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'Estrange.
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Books
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A sermon preached before the antient and honorable society of free and accepted masons, in provincial lodge assembled, in the parish church of S. John, in Chester: June 23. A.D. MDCCLXXX. By Thomas Crane, Minister of the Parish Church of S. Olave, in Chester, and Chaplain to the right Honorable Earl Verney: At that time Provincial Grand Chaplain, and now Master of the Provincial Lodge, held under the sanction of the Honorable and right Worshipful John Smith Barry, of Belmont, Provincial Grand Master for Cheshire.
Crane, Thomas, Minister of St. Olave, Chester.Date: 5782 [i.e. 1782]- Books
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Aura; or The slave. A poem. In two cantos. Dedicated to John Carr, L.L.D. master of the Grammar School, Hertford.
Street, Thomas George.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Liberal education: or, a practical treatise on the methods of acquiring useful and polite learning. By the Reverend Vicesimus Knox, A. M. Late Fellow Of ST. John's College, Oxford, And Now Master Of Tunbridge-School.
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The shoemaker's case, with their appeal unto cs̆ar, and both houses of Parliament, For an act to prevent the exportation of unwrought leather; and to take of the drawback. Together with a letter to Sir John Strange, Knt. master of the rolls. By B. Yapp, cordwainer
Yapp, B.Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]- Books
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The preceptor's assistant, or, schoolmaster's guide: being a compendium of arithmetic. Adapted to the Use of Schools. By John Shield, Master of the Academy, at Ewell, in Surry. Containing All the Rules of Arithmetic in whole Numbers; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of the Square, Cube, and Biquadrate, Roots; Duodecimals; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; with several pleasing and useful Recreations.
Shield, John, -1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
A way to get wealth. Containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves ... / The first five bookes gathered by G[ervase] M[arkham]. The last by Master W[illiam] L[awson].
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1668- Books
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An oration, delivered before the right worshipful master and brethren of St. Peter's Lodge, at the Episcopal Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on the festival of St. John the Baptist; celebrated June 25 5798. By the worshipful brother Charles Jackson, P.M.
Jackson, Charles, 1775-1855.Date: A.L. 5798 [i.e. 1798]- Books
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An introduction to the making of Latin. Comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax. With proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in another. To which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome; intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue: with rules for the gender of nouns. The seventeenth edition, revised and carefully corrected. By John Clarke, late master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull.
Clarke, John, 1687-1734.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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A sermon preached at the visitation of the Honourable and Right Reverend Edward Lord Bishop of Carlisle, held in the cathedral church of St.Mary, Carlisle, on Monday, June 25, 1798. By the Rev. John Farrer, Vicar of Stanwix, late Master of Witton School, Durham.
Farrer, John, 1735-1808.Date: 1798- Books
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A new grammar of the Latin tongue. Or, a rational, short, comprehensive and plain method of communicating that language to tender capacities. Freed From The many Obscurities, Defects, Superfluities, and Errors, which render the Common Grammar an insufferable Impediment to the Progress of Education. Commodiously contrived, As well for the Initiating of Learners, as for the Covenience of Such as through Disuse may have partly lost their Latin. To which is added, a vocabulary, and Practical Apparatus to the making of Latin. The sixth edition, corrected By John Holmes, Master of the Publick Grammar School in Holt, Norfolk.
Holmes, John, 1703-1759.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The leicestershire harmony: containing a set of excellent psalm-tunes and anthems, composed, in modern taste, for Four Voices, By an Eminent Master of the County of Leicester. Published for the Use of Country Choirs. The second edition, with addtions. By John Arnold, Organist, Author of the Complete Psalmodist, Essex Harmony, Psalmist's Recreation, and Church Music Reformed.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
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Thomas Weston. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1723, after M. Dahl.
Dahl, Michael, 1656-1743.Date: 1723Reference: 9661i- Books
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The master-Key through all the degrees of a Free-Mason's lodge; to which are added, eulogiums and illustrations, upon Free-Masonry; theology; astronomy; geometry; architecture; arts; sciences; &c. with a correct and complete list of all the modern regular lodges, Shewing when Constituted, and when and where held: Also, Lodges of Instruction, and Times of Meeting. By J. Browne, P. M. & H. Z. I.
Browne, John, active 1777-1798.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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The constraining influence of the love of Christ: a sermon, preached, in the church of the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolnoth-Haw, Lombard-Street, Before the Right Honourable The Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, on the 30th day of March, 1800, by John Newton, Rector, for the benefit of the children belonging to th Langbourn-Ward Charity-School; And Published, By His Lordship's Permission, At the Request of the Treasurer, Trustees, and Committee, of the Said School.
Newton, John, 1725-1807.Date: [1800]- Books
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The art of rhetoric made easy: or, The elements of oratory briefly stated, and fitted for the practice of the studious youth of Great-Britain and Ireland: In two books. The first comprehending the principles of that excellent art, conformable to, and supported by the authority of the most accurate orators and rhetoricians, both ancient and modern, viz. Isocrates. Aristotle, Cicero, Dionysius Halicarnass. Quintilian, Vossius, Petrusramus, Cyp. Soarius, Aud. Talŭs, Dugaro, Farwaby, Butlen, Smith, Walker, Burton, Blackwall, Lowe. Rollin, ABp. of Cambray, Miss. De Port-Royal &, the whole being distinguished into what is necessary to be repeated, and what may be made only matter of observation. The second containing the substance of Lon-Ginus's celebrated treatise on the sublime. In both which all technical terms are fully explained, with their derivations, and proper examples applied to demonstrate and illustrate all the tropes, figures, and fine turns, that are to be met with, or imitated, either in the scriptures, classics, or other polite writings as well oratorial as poetical. The third impression, corrected and improved. By John Holmes, late master of the publick grammar-school, in Holt, Norfolk.
Holmes, John, 1703-1759.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The reasonableness and certainty of the Christian religion. ... By Robert Jenkin, D. D. late Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and Master of St. John's College in Cambridge.
Jenkin, Robert, 1656-1727.Date: 1734