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A Collection of religious tracts. [Twelve lines from Swedenborg]
Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; in which are contained, rules, shewing how the allowances for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the dead-reckoning by an observation, in all cases: and also all the tables that are any ways necessary for the seaman's use in keeping a journal. By Thomas Haselden, late teacher of the mathematics in the Royal Navy.
Haselden, Thomas, -1740.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirituous liquors. By a lover of mankind. [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A short introduction to moral philosophy, in three books; containing the elements of ethicks, and the law of nature. By Francis Hutcheson, LLD. late professor of philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Translated from the Latin.
Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Some serious and awful considerations, recommended to all, particularly the youth, in a representation of the uncertainty of a death-bed repentance. Also some Christian instructions, agreeable to the precepts of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ; under the character of a devout parent advising his children. Extracted from a late pious author. [Five lines from Deuteronomy]
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: [1769]- Books
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An humble, earnest, and affectionate address to the clergy. By William Law, A.M. To which is prefixed a short account of his life and character.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family; who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the spring, 1780.
Walton, William, 1740-1824.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A short account of the people called Quakers; their rise, religious principles and settlement in America, mostly collected from different authors, for the information of all serious inquirers, particularly foreigners. By Anthony Benezet.
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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An account of the life of that ancient servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson, giving a relation of many of his trials and exercises in his youth, and his services in the work of the ministry, in England, Ireland, America, &c. [Three lines from Luke]
Richardson, John, 1667-1753.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirtuous liquors. By a lover of mankind. [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A treatise of practical surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures, arithmetically or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson; teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Gibson, Robert, -1761?.Date: 1796- Books
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Little truths better than great fables: containing information on divers subjects, for the instruction of children. ... Illustrated with copper-plates.
Darton, William, 1755-1819.Date: 1800- Books
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The dreadful visitation, in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London, in the year 1665, extracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there during the whole time of that infection. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Some brief remarks upon sundry important subjects, necessary to be understood and attended to by all professing the Christian religion. Principally addressed to the people called Quakers. By John Griffith.
Griffith, John, 1713-1776.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A short vindication of the religious society called Quakers, against the aspersions of a nameless writer in the Pennsylvania Packet of the 12th instant.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings (Society of Friends).Date: 1780]- Books
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An essay on the culture of silk, and raising white mulberry trees, the leaves of which are the only proper food of the silk-worm. By a citizen of Philadelphia.
Citizen of Philadelphia, active 1790.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A treatise of practical surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Gibson, Robert, -1761?.Date: MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790]- Books
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The law of evidence. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The Young clerk's magazine: or, English law-repository: containing a variety of the most useful precedents of articles of agreement, bonds, bills, recognizances, releases, letters and warrants of attorney, awards, bills of sale, gifts, grants, leases, assignments, mortgages, surrenders, jointures, covenants, copartnerships, charterparties, letters of licence, compositions, conveyances, partitions, wills, and all other instruments that relate to public business. With necessary directions for making distresses for rent, &c. as the law between landlord and tenant now stands. To which is added, the doctrine of fines and recoveries, and their forms.
Date: 1795- 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: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Extract from an address in the Virginia gazette, of March 19, 1767. By a respectable member of the community.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.Date: 1780?]- Books
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Reasons for quitting the Methodist Society; being a defence of Barclay's Apology. In answer to a printed letter to a person joined with the people called Quakers. In a letter to a friend. By John Helton.
Helton, John, 1731 or 1732-1817.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A letter from Elizabeth Webb to Anthony William Boehm, with his answer.
Webb, Elizabeth.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Short observations on slavery, introductory to some extracts from the writing of the Abbe Raynal, on that important subject.
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: 1781?]- Books
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Davideis: the life of David, King of Israel: a sacred poem. In five books. By Thomas Ellwood. [One line from Horatio]
Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]