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Death: a poetical essay. By Beilby Porteus, M.A. Fellow of Christ College.
Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An authentic narrative of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean: performed by Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke, in his Britannic Majesty's ships, the Resolution, and Discovery, in the years, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Including, a faithful account of all their discoveries in this last voyage, the unfortunate death of Captain Cook, at the island of O-why-ee, and the return of the ships to England under Captain Gore. Also a large introduction, exhibiting, an account of the several voyages round the globe; with an abstract of the principal expeditions to Hudson's Bay, for the discovery of a north-west-passage. By an officer on board the Discovery. Volume the first[-second].
Rickman, John.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Political disquisitions; or, An enquiry into public errors, defects, and abuses. Illustrated by, and established upon facts and remarks, extracted from a variety of authors, ancient and modern. Calculated to draw the timely attention of government and people, to a due consideration of the necessity, and the means, of reforming those errors, defects, and abuses; of restoring the constitution, and saving the state. By J. Burgh, gentleman; author of the Dignity of human nature, and other works. ...
Burgh, James, 1714-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The travels of the imagination; a true journey from Newcastle to London. To which are added, American independence, an everlasting deliverance from British tyranny: a poem.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Plain concise practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added, an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed, for the use of young military and naval surgeons, in North-America. By John Jones, M.D. Professor of surgery, in King's College, New-York.
Jones, John, 1729-1791.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The Art of war, containing, I. The duties of all military officers in actual service; including necessary instructions, in many capital matters, by the knowledge of which, a man may soon become an ornament to the profession of arms. By Monsieur de Lamont, Town-Major of Toulon. II. The duties of soldiers in general; including necessary instructions, in many capital matters, by remaining ignorant of which, a man who pretends to be a soldier, will be every day in danger, of bringing disgrace upon himself, and material injury, to the cause of his country. III. The rules and practice of the greatest generals, in the manoeuvres of encamping, marching, order of battle, fighting, attacking, and defending strong places, with the manner of surprising towns, quarters, and armies; exhibiting what is most requisite to be known, by all who enter into the military service. By the Chevalier de la Valiere.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Illuminations for legislators and for sentimentalists; containing, I. Sentiments on what is freedom, and what is slavery. By a farmer. II. Sentiments on liberty, exhibited in observations on the Revolution of America, by Abbe Raynal. III. Sentiments on government, law, arbitary power, liberty, and social institutions, by John James Rousseau, originally of Geneva. IV. Sentiments on government, and on the English Constitution. By V.L. de Lolme, advocate, and citizen of Geneva. [One line of Scripture text] Re-published by Robert Bell, printer, book-seller, book-auctionier and provedore to the sentimentalists in America.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Letters of the late Thomas Lord Lyttelton: with his poems on several occasions, and a sketch of his Lordship's character.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The West Indian: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane. By Richard Cumberland, author of the Brothers, and the Fashionable lover. [Two lines of quotations]
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary: including the warriors gazetteer of places remarkable for sieges or battles. By Thomas Simes, Esq;
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The maid of the oaks: a new dramatic entertainment. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. [Six lines from the prologue]
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A treatise on the military service, of light horse, and light infantry, in the field, and in the fortified places. By Major General de Grandmaison, formerly a captain, with the rank of lieutenant colonel of cavalry, in the Voluntiers of Flanders. Translated from the French, by Major Lewis Nicola.
Grandmaison, de, Major General.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The Political duenna: a comic opera, in three acts, as it is performed by the servants of His Britannic Majesty, with Lord North's recantation. To which are added, I. A letter to Mr. John Wesley on his calm address to the Americans. Supposed to be written by the celebrated Junius. II. A letter from an Irish gentleman in London to his friend and countryman, in His Britannic Majesty's service, in America.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The manual exercise, as ordered by His Majesty, in the year 1764. Together with plans and explanations of the method generally practised at reviews and field-days. With copper plates.
Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The military guide for young officers, by Thomas Simes, Esq. author of The military medley. In two volumes. ...
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.
Elliot, John, 1747-1787.Date: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]- Books
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Three years travels, through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. With the life of Milton. By Thomas Newton, D.D. [Eight lines from Thomson]
Milton, John, 1608-1674.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. An Asiatic tale. The two volumes complete in one. Volume the first[-second]. [Five lines from La Rochfoucauld]
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The real and genuine school for scandal, a comedy; acted with bursts of applause, at the theatres in London and Dublin. Written by Brinsley Sheridan Esquire. [One line of quotation]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A serious address to such of the people called Quakers, on the continent of North-America, as profess scruples relative to the present government: exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority. Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778. By a native of Pennsylvania. To which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from an essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the Revolution of 1688.
Grey, Isaac.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A rhetorical grammar of the English language, calculated solely for the purposes of teaching propriety of pronunciation, and justness of delivery, in that tongue, by the organs of speech. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M. author of the Lectures on elocution.
Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Sermons to ministers of state. By the author of, Sermons to asses. Dedicated to Lord North, Prime Minister of England, for the use of the religious, political, and philosophical rationalists, in Europe, and America. [Four lines from Psalms] Price half a dollar.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The lying valet. A comedy in two acts. Written by David Garrick, Esq. Printed at the desire of some of the officers in the American Army, who intend to exhibit at the play-house, for the benifit of families who have suffered in the war for American liberty.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Buchan, William, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]