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A letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley; In answer to His late pamphlet, entitled, ̀̀free Thoughts on the Present State of Public Affairs.''
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Observations on public liberty, patriotism, ministerial despotism, and national grievances. With some remarks on riots, petitions, loyal addresses, and military execution. In a letter to the freeholders of the county of Middlesex, and the livery of London. By an independen citizen of London.
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The occasional writer. To the people; and for the people. By a lover of his country.
Lover of his country.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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An inquiry into the practice of imprisonment for debt, and a refutation of Mr. James Stephen's doctrine. To which is added, a hint for relief of both creditor and debtor.
Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The past mercies, the great sinfulness, and the present alarming, state of this nation, a loud call to humble ourselves sincerely before God. A sermon occasioned by the present state of national affairs, and preached Feb. 27, 1778, being the day appointed, by government for a general fast. By John Towers, minister of the Gospel in Bartholomew-Close, West-Smithfield. Published at the request of the congregation.
Towers, John, 1746 or 1747-1804.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The character and blessedness of the righteous represented: in a sermon preached at Haberdashers-Hall, on the death of William Cromwell, Esq; July 9, 1772. ... With a brief account of the Cromwell-family ... By Thomas Gibbons, D.D.
Gibbons, Thomas, 1720-1785.Date: 1773- Books
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Objections against the application to the legislature for relief for Protestant dissenting ministers, and dissenting tutors and schoomasters [sic], dispassionately considered and obviated. To which are added, the sentiments and observations of Lactantius, an excellent Christian writer in the fourth century, and of the eminent Dr John Owen in the last century, upon the only warrantable methods of treating diversities of opinion in religion. By Thomas Gibbons, D.D.
Gibbons, Thomas, 1720-1785.Date: 1773- Books
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A letter to the Rev. Dr. Nowell, Principal Of St. Mary Hall, King's Professor Of Modern History, And Public Orator In The University Of Oxford: occasioned by his very extraordinary sermon, preached before the House of Commons on the thirtieth of January, 1772.
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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A dialogue between two gentlemen, concerning The late Application to Parliament for Relief in the Matter of Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles and Liturgy of the Church of England.
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The history of Italy, from the year 1490, to 1532. Written in Italian by Francesco Guicciardini, a nobleman of Florence. In twenty books. Translated into English by the Chevalier Austin Parke Goddard, Knight of the Military Order of St. Stephen. The second edition. ...
Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.Date: M.DCC.LV. [i.e. 1755-56]- Books
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La cloche de l'ame: or, conscience the loudest knell. A satyr. Occasioned by several late complaints from places of public resort, of the too long and frequent tolling of the bells at deaths and funerals. To which is added, vigiliana novissima: or, the reformed watchman.
Date: 1774- Books
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The question relating to a scots militia or considered. In a letter to the lords and gentlemen who have concerted the form of a law for that establishment. By a FreehHolder.
Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The question relating to a Scots militia considered. In a letter to the lords and gentlemen who have concerted the form of a law for that establishmont. By a freeholder.
Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805.Date: [1760]- Books
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The putting on the new man a certain mark of the real Christian: a sermon preached at the Tabernacle, on the fifth of January, 1750. By the late Reverend George Whitefield, M. A. Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon, Taken down in Short-Hand, and transcribed with great Care and Fidelity, By a Gentleman present.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.Date: [1770]- Books
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Funeral reflections: or, Conscience the loudest Knell. A satyr. Occasioned by several complaints (in the public papers) from margate in the isle of thanet, of the too long and frequent tolling of the bells at deaths and burials.
Date: [1773]- Books
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Jerusalem's captivities lamented: or, a plain description of Jerusalem, from Joshua's time to the year of Christ, 1517. Both by Scripture and Antient History. First, The Antiquity of the City, with the Number of the Inhabitants that lived therein, with the Depth and Breadth of the Frenches, the Heighth of the Walls, and the Number of the Towers that stood thereon. As also the Greatness of the Temple, and Glory of the Sanctum Sanctorum, or the Holy of Holy's: Together with a large Description of Christ's Birth, Life, Death, and Miraculous Wonders, that happened in and about that Time: With an Account of Christ's Personal Features. To which is added, The Sad and ever Lamented Desolation and Destruction of Jerusalem, by Fire, Sword, Pestilence and Famine.
Date: 1721- Books
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An address to the deists. In which are prefixed, remarks on the conduct of our modern clergy.
Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Discourses on three essential properties of the Gospel-Revelation, which demonstrate its divine original. With a caution against infidelity, addressed to youth. And a supplemental discourse on the supernatural conception of Jesus Christ. By Caleb Fleming, D.D.
Fleming, Caleb, 1698-1779.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the first.
Date: 1776- Books
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The blessedness of dying in the Lord considered in a sermon preached at the weigh-house in Little Eastcheap on the death of the Rev. William Langford, D.D. who departed this life April 23, 1775. ... By Thomas Gibbons, D.D.
Gibbons, Thomas, 1720-1785.Date: 1775- Books
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Journal of a tour to Italy. Containing, (among many other interesting and curious Particulars) an account of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. Of the Curiosities discovered at Herculaneum. Of the leaning Towers of Pisa and Bologna. Detection of the Impositions used in the pretended liquesying of the Blood of St. Januarius. Parallel between the Horseraces at Rome and Newmarket. Description of Port Specia and the neighbouring Coast. Of the famous Emerald, or Holy Vessel, at Genoa. Remarks on the mountains and ice vallies of Swisserland, &c. &c. By M. de la Condamine.
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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On the 4th of this month, which was the Hundredth Anniversary of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, a numerous and respectable meeting of about 300 gentlemen, dined at the London tavern, to celebrate that important æra, where universal harmony and good order prevailed, and the generous spirit of freemen glowed in every breast. An excellent oration was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Towers; the Character of King William was read by the Rev. Dr. Rees; an elegant ode, written by Mr. Hayley, was recited by Mr. Jenkins; and Messrs. Arrowsmith, Sedgwick, Dignum, Deeble, Tilly,
Date: 1788]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemens [sic] and gentlemens [sic] seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: 1776-77- Books
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British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff, who began the Reformation by his writings, to the present time: whether statesmen, patriots, generals, admirals, philosophers, poets, lawyers, or divines. In which the several incidents and remarkable actions of their lives, and the particularities of their deaths, that could be collected from history, family memoirs, and records, are related; a catalogue of their writings given, with occasional remarks; and their characters delineated with freedom and impartiality. Vol. I.
Date: MDCCLXXIII [1773]