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How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art / Paul B. Armstrong.
Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-Date: [2013]- Books
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The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, M. A. Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English Translations; together with many original compositions, Not included in the Quarto Edition. To which is prefixed, An Account of his life and writings, Never before published. In two volumes. ...
Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The original speech of Sir W----m St----pe, on the first reading of the Bill for appointing the Assizes at Buckingham, Feb.19, 1748.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: [1748]- Books
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The psalms, translated or paraphrased in English verse. By James Merrick, M. A. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq; containing his observations on France, Italy, Turkey in Europe, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and many other parts of the world: giving a particular and faithful account of what is most remarkable in the manners, religion, polity, antiquities, and natural history of those countries: with a curious description of Jerusalem, as it now appears, and most other places mention'd in the Holy Scriptures. Publish'd from the author's original manuscript, interspers'd with the remarks of several other modern travellers, and illustrated with historical, geographical, and miscellaneous notes by the editor. Adorn'd with maps and prints. In three volumes.
Thompson, Charles, active 1750.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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The female advocate; a poem. Occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. By Miss Scott.
Scott, Mary, poet.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The female advocate; a poem. Occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. By Miss Scott.
Scott, Mary, poet.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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An essay against too much reading. With The whole Lives and Proceedings of Sancho and Peepo, at Aix la Chapelle in Germany. And A true account and design of the Proceedings this last Year in so many Processions at Bath.
Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The muses banquet; or, a present from Parnassus. Being a collection of such English and Scots songs, As are well worth preserving; Songs that are perfectly decent, that have some Scope and Design, and that tend either to improve the Mind, mend the Manners, or make the Heart merry. ...
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Candid remarks on some particular passages in the fifth edition of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield's volume of sermons, printed in the year 1750. In a letter to a gentleman.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Plain directions for reading the Holy Scriptures.
Böhm, Anton Wilhelm, 1673-1722.Date: [1771]- Pictures
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An unidentified male saint (Saint Paul?) reading a book. Gouache.
Reference: 32047i- Books
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The speaker: or, miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. A new edition, corrected. To which are prefixed two essays: I. On elocution. II. On reading works of taste. By William Enfield, LL. D. Late Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington.
Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The speaker: or, miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. A new edition, corrected and enlarged. To which are prefixed two essays: I. On elocution. II. On reading works of taste. By William Enfield, LL. D. Late Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington.
Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The good Christian happy in death. A sermon preached in the Presbyterian Church, at Newbury, May 28th 1780, occasioned by the death of Dr. John Collet, Late Physician of that Place. By David James. Published by desire.
James, David, active 1778-1780.Date: [1780]- Books
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An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes. By Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Physician to his Late Majesty, &c.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: [1767]- Books
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Plain directions for reading the Holy Scriptures.
Böhm, Anton Wilhelm, 1673-1722.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
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A sermon preached at the Parish Church of Fawley, in the county of Bucks, on Sunday the 10th of August 1766, by Thomas Powys, A.M.
Powys, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1766]- Books
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Annotations on the psalms. By James Merrick, M. A. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Merrick, James, 1720-1769.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Lectures, upon the heart, lungs, Pericardium, Pleura, Aspera Arteria, membrana intersepiens, or mediastinum. Together with the diaphragm. Interspersed With A Variety of Practical Remarks. By H. Mason, surgeon. The above lectures were lately delivered at the Surgeons Theatre.
Mason, H. (Henry).Date: [1763?]- Books
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Tar water, a ballad, inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield: Occasioned by reading a narrative on the success of Tar Water, dedicated to his lordship by Thomas Prior, Esquire.
Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Tar water, a ballad, inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield: occasioned by reading a narrative on the success of tar water; Dedicated to his Lordship by Thomas Prior, Esquire.
Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Annotations, critical and grammatical, on chap. 1. v. 1-14. of the gospel according to St. John. Being part of a work, particularly designed for the use of young persons, as an introduction to the study of the Greek testament. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discourse, Exhibiting an easy Method of Studying the Greek Language. By James Merrick, M. A. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Merrick, James, 1720-1769.Date: 1764- Books
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Annotations, critical and grammatical, on chap. 1. v. 1-14. of the gospel according to St. John. Being part of a work, particularly designed for the use of young persons, as an introduction to the study of the Greek testament. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discourse, Exhibiting an easy Method of Studying the Greek Language. By James Merrick, M. A. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Merrick, James, 1720-1769.Date: 1764- Books
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An explanation of scripture prophecies, both typical and literal. In two volumes. ... . Containing, An Explanation of Christ's Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, of his Prayer and Beatitudes, together with St. Paul's Panoply, or Whole Armour of God: All which are shewn to have a Mystical and Prophetical, as well as Literal Signification, and to bear a particular Reference to the Sevenfold State of Christ's Church upon Earth. To which are prefixed, A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Berriman, containing some Remarks on Dr. Henry More's Exposition of the Seven Epistlès to the Seven Churches. And Brief Observations on the Learned Mr. Mede's Clavis Apocalyptica, and on some few Passages in his other Apocalyptical Writings. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. Vicar of Great Torrington, Devon.
Johnson, Samuel, 1686-1746.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]