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A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in whose Works they are found. Abstracted from the folio edition, by the author Samuel Johnson, A.M. To which is prefixed, A grammar of the English language. In two volumes. ...
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A new geographical and historical grammar; containing the true astronomical and geographical knowledge of the terraqueous globe: and also the modern state of the several kingdoms of the world; under these four heads: I. The Astronomy of the Solar System, and particularly of the Earth. I. [sic] Universal geography, shewing the divers circumstances relating to the earth, water, and atmosphere. III. Geographical elements, exemplified in definitions, problems, theorems, and paradoxes. IV. Particular geography, concerning the natural and political parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; wherein the climate, productions, and people; the customs, policy, manufactures, and traffic; the religion, strength, history, and other particulars, of all nations, are treated of, in a manner tending to render the study of geography entertaining and instructive. Illustrated with twenty-five maps and plates elegantly executed. By Mr. Salmon. The twelfth edition, with great amendments and improvements by Mr. Robertson.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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In a few days will be published, dedicated to the Right Hon. Earl Temple, two new editions, one in two volumes quarto, to other in three volumes octavo, elegantly printed, of four hundred and nineteen letters, written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patricks, Dublin; and several of his friends, Viz. Mr. Addison, Bishop Atterbury, Earl of Anglesey, Dr. Arbuthnot, Lord Berkeley, Lord B-, Lord and Lady Bolingbroke, Lord Casteret, Earl of Ch- Lord Castledurrow, Dr. Davenant, Charies Ford, Esq; Lady Granville, Mr. Gay, Lady B- G-. Sir Thomas Hanmer, Anthony Henley, Esq; Lord Halifax, Mrs. Howard, Lord Hyde, Archbishop King, Mr. Jarvis, Lady Catherine Jones, Lord Primate Lindsay, Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, Erasmus Lewis, Esq; Lord Orkney, Duke and Duchess of Ormond, Earl of Orrery, Lord Peterborrow, Lord Chancellor Phipps, Mr. Pope, Lord Poulett, Mr. Prior, Duke and Duchess of Q-, Chevalier Ramsay, Sir Richard Steele, Earl of Strafford, Miss Vanhomrigh, Mr. Voltaire, Duke of Wharton, Lady Worsley, and others. From the year 1703 to 1740. Now first published from the originals, (in the hand-writing of the parties) which are deposited in the British Museum. With notes, explanatory and historical. By the late Reverend Thomas Birch, D.D. and John Hawkesworth, L.L.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: [1766]- Books
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Theatrical biography: or, Memoirs of the principal performers of the three Theatres Royal Drury-Lane, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Barry, Mr. Reddish, Mr. Aickin, Mrs. Barry, Mrs Abington, Miss Younge, Mr. King, Mr. Moody, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, Miss Hayward, Mrs. Baddely, Miss Pope, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Baddely, Mrs. Egerton, Mrs. W. Barry, Mrs. Jefferies, Covent-Garden. Mr. Ross, Mr. Smith, Mr. Savigny, Mr. Woodward, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Mattocks, Mr. Yates, Mr. Shuter, Mr. Dyer, Miss Macklin, Mrs. Bulkley, Mr. Bensly, Mr. Mattocks, Mr. Clark, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Thompson, Hay-Market. Mr. Foote, Mr. Weston, Mrs. Gardner, Mr. J. Aickin, Mr. Didier, Mrs. Jewel, Mr. Davies, Mrs. Didier. Together with critical and impartial remarks on their respective professional merits. ...
Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Cato. A tragedy, by Mr. Addison.
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The works of Mr. Thomas Otway; in three volumes. Consisting of his plays, poems, and letters.
Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The plays of William Shakespeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Letters, written by the Late Jonathan Swift, D.D. dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; and several of his friends. From the year 1710 to 1742. Published from the originals; collected and revised by Deane Swift, Esq. of Goodrich, in Herefordshire. Volume III.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Letters, written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1710 to 1742. Published from the originals; collected and revised by Deane Swift, Esq. Of goodrich, in herefordshire. Volume IV.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed The life of the author. ...
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Cymbeline. A tragedy. By Shakespear. With alterations. By David Garrick, Esq;
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson. ...
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]-80- Books
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. By Samuel Johnson. In four volumes. ...
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. The eighth edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. now Lord Bishop of Bristol.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Letters, written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1710 to 1742. Published from the originals; collected and revised by Deane Swift, esq. of goodrich, in herefordshire.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The spectator. ...
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Fables by the late Mr. Gay. In one volume complete.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The works of Mr. John Gay complete, in four volumes.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The maid of Arragon; a tale. By Mrs. Cowley. Part I.
Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the Christian revelation. In answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, the author of the oracles of reason, and other deniers of natural and revealed religion. Being sixteen sermons, preached in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, in the years 1704 and 1705, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; By Samuel Clarke, D.D. rector of St. James's, Westminster. The tenth edition, corrected. There is inserted, in this edition, a discourse concerning the connexion of the Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the application of them to Christ. There is also added, an answer to a seventh letter, concerning the argument p̉riori.
Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. The author John Milton.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Robert Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin. A new edition, with great additions and amendments. Particularly a large and copious index of such words as occur in Stephens and Ainsworth, of an obsolete, unclassical, doubtful, or modern character, with the proper and genuine Word frequently annexed: Also Another Index of the same Kind, from Vossius, Calepin, Cooper, Littleton, and Others. To which are subjoined, A Third, of the more common Latin Words in our Ancient Laws. The Notes of Abbreviations used in Latin Authors and Inscriptions. And A General Chronology of eminent Persons and memorable Things. By Thomas Morell, D.D. Rector of Buckland, in Hertfordshire, and F. SS. R. & A.
Ainsworth, Robert, 1660-1743.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The life of King Henry V. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, and Covent Garden. Written by Shakespear.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: 1769- Books
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Albina, Countess Raimond; a tragedy, by Mrs. Cowley: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market.
Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]