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The poetical miscellany; consisting of select pieces from the works of the following poets, viz. Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Gay, Parnell, Young, Thomson, Akenside, Philips, Gray, Wharton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Wilkie, &c. &c. For the use of schools.
Date: 1789- Books
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The poetical miscellany; consisting of select pieces from the works of the following poets, viz. Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Gay, Parnel, Young, Thomson, Akenside, Philips, Gray, Wharton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Wilkie, &c. &c. For the use of schools.
Date: 1778- Books
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Replies for James Butchart provost, and others, magistrates, and town-council, of the burgh of Aberbrothock, defenders, to the answers for Messrs. Sturrock, Morgan, and Wilkie, pursuers.
Arbroath (Tayside)Date: 1768]- Books
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The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.
Six, James, 1731-1793.Date: 1794- Books
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The epigoniad. A poem. In nine books. By William Wilkie, V.D.M. The second edition, carefully corrected and improved. To which is added, A dream. In the Manner of Spenser.
Wilkie, William, 1721-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife / With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix by the author.
Date: 1772- Books
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Heads of a Bill for the better relief and employment of the poor, and for the improvement of the police of this country: with a supplement. Submitted to the Consideration of the members of both houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert, Esq
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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An answer to a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of B***, in which the false reasoning, and absurd conclusions, in that pamphlet, are fully detected and refuted: addressed to the Right Hon. Earl T-Mple.
Date: 1761- Books
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An essay on the cure of the hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis / By Joseph Else.
Else, Joseph, -1780.Date: 1770- Books
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A collection of travels, thro' various parts of the world; but more particularly, thro' Tartary, China, Turkey, Persia, and the East-Indies. ... by Mr. Derrick. In two volumes. ...
Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769.Date: 1762- Books
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The tales of the genii: or, the delightful lessons of Horam, the son of Asmar. Faithfully translated from the Persian manuscript; and compared with the French and Spanish editions ... The third edition. In two volumes. ... By Sir Charles Morell, ...
Morell, Charles, Sir, 1736-1765.Date: 1766- Books
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The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. Particularly Addison, Akenside, Armstrong, Duke Of Buckingham, Collins, Congreve, Cowley, Cowper, Denham, Dryden, Dyer, Garth, Gay, Grainger, Gray, Hill, Johnson, Ben. Jonson, Lee, LD. Lyttleton, Mallet, Mason, Milton, Otway, Parnell, Philips, Pope, Prior, Rowe, Shakespeare, Shenstone, Spence, Swift, Thomson, Tickell, Waller, Wharton, Whitehead, Wilkie, Young, &c. &c. And Calculated For The Use, Not Only Of Schools, But Of Private Gentlemen.
Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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A thousand notable things, on various subjects; disclosed from the secrets of nature and art; Practicable, Profitable, and of great Advantage; Set down from long and curious Study and Experience, for the greater Part; and the Rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated Authors of the Ancients and Moderns. Being a rich Cabinet of select Curiosities and Rarities, in one Volume, digested into fourteen Books, for the general Use and Good of Mankind; with strict Amendments, and large Additions, to what formerly has been published in this Kind; exceeding any other for the Multitude of pleasing Variety herein to be found.
Lupton, Thomas.Date: 1793- Books
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The rudiments of the English tongue; or, the principles of English grammar, methodically digested into plain rules, and adapted to the capacities of children: after the plan of Mr Ruddiman's Latin rudiments. Containing, I. Orthography,-Which treats of Letters, and the due Pronunciation and Spelling of Syllables and Words in the English Language. II. Etymology,-Which treats of the Nature and Properties of Words. III. Syntax, or Construction,-Which is the right ordering of Words in Speech; or joining them regularly in a Sentence. IV. Prosody,-Which treats of the Quantities of Syllables, and of Verse. To which are added, English Exercises, or Examples, on the most useful New Plan; to be rectified by the Rules of Orthography, Etymology, and Syntax. With Proper Directions and Address from Inferiors to Persons of Distinction: And also a Table of Abbreviations, with an Explication of them; &c. The second edition, revised, corrected, and improved, by L. Metcalfe, Curate at Middleham, in the County of York.
Metcalfe, Lister.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Remarks by T. Ludlam, on the scurrilous reflections, cast upon the Rev. W. and T. Ludlam; by Dr. Milner, Master of Queens College, Cambridge, and Dean of Carlisle;
Milner, Isaac, 1750-1820.Date: [1800?]- Books
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An essay upon the effects of camphire and calomel in continual fevers ... To which is added, an occasional observation upon the modern practice of inoculation. And from the whole is deduced an argument ... that the alimentary canal is the principal seat of a fever / [Daniel Lysons].
Lysons, Daniel, 1727-1800Date: 1771- Books
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An essay on bread; wherein the bakers and millers are vindicated from the aspersions contained in two pamphlets; one intitled Poisons detected: and the other [by James Manning M.D.], The Nature of bread honestly and dishonestly made. Proving the impossibility of mixing lime, chalk, whiting and burnt bones in bread without immediate discovery : with plain and easy experiments to discover alum and other admixtures in bread, instantly. To which is added, an appendix, explaining the vile practices committed in adulterating wines, cider, porter, punch, vinegar, and pickles. With easy methods to detect such abuses / by H. Jackson.
Jackson, H. (Henry)Date: 1758- Books
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The diary of the late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761. With an appendix, containing some curious and intersting [sic] papers, ... Published from his Lordship's original manuscripts, by Henry Penruddocke Wyndham.
Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762.Date: 1785- Books
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Introductio ad prudentiam: or, directions, counsels, and cautions, tending to prudent management of affairs in common life. In two volumes. Compiled by Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734.Date: 1787- Books
The ship-master's medical assistant; or physical advice to all masters of ships who carry no surgeons ... containing a brief description of diseases ... peculiar to seamen ... with a concise method of cure ... / By a surgeon of the Royal Navy. [Anon].
Date: 1777- Books
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The works of M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With notes, historical, critical, and explanatory. By T. Francklin, D.D. Chaplain to his majesty, and late Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge. T. Smollett, M.D. and others.
Voltaire, 1694-1778.Date: 1778-1781- Books
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A series of letters, on the commercial treaty with France. Published in the Kentish Gazette, in the year MDCCLXXXVII. By a country gentleman.
Country gentleman.Date: [1787?]- Books
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William Wallace: or, the Highland hero. A tale, founded on historical facts. By Henry Siddons, Author of Modern Breakfast. In two volumes. ...
Siddons, Henry, 1774-1815.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A new system of geography: or, a general description of the world. ... Embellished with a new and accurate set of maps, ... and a great variety of copper-plates, ... By the late D. Fenning and J. Collyer. A new edition, revised, enlarged, and improved, by Frederick Hervey, Esq; ... The account of North America corrected ... by Captain Carver, ...
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1785-86- Books
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Sonnets and other poems; with a versification of the six bards of Ossian. By S. Egerton Brydges, Esq. of the Middle Temple, and late of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837.Date: 1785