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An appeal to his Majesty's most gracious promise of never forgetting those that have distinguished themselves in his service; the humble petition of John Dunton, gent.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1730?]- Books
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The mob-war: or a detection of the present state of the Brittish nation: but more especially with respect to that wou'd be King ... that threatens us with a speedy invasion. In sixteen letters. ...
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1715?]- Books
The life and errors of John Dunton, citizen of London : with the lives and characters of more than a thousand contemporary divines and other persons of literary eminence, to which are added Dunton's conversation in Ireland, selections from his other genuine works and a faithful portrait of the author.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1969- Books
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High-Church: or a vindication of the Reverend Mr. William Richardson, from near an hundred aspersions that are cast upon him, by Mr. John Dunton, in his paradox intituled The preaching weather-cock. But more especially, those of his picking up a Common Whore, -Her boasting of being with Child (as she impudently calls it) of a young Parson, - His hiring of her (as we do Coachmen) by the Hour, - His tempting of her to Perjury, to clear his Innocence, - His giving the Sacrament the next Day, and being Thrice bound to his Good Behaviour, by a Warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice. In which Vindication - The Secret History of his Life, Conversation and Doctrines - is set in a True Light, and his Low-Church and Fanatick Accusers, are characteriz'd and detected. In a letter to Doctor Calamy a Dissenting Minister. To which is added, Killing no Sin, or a Panegyrick upon Mr. William Richardson, for attempting to murder his Wife and Mother (of which they have made Affidavit). With An Apology for his praying several Times of late, that God wou'd bless the Pretender and the Church of Rome. - Also a Relation of the Great Honours that were lately done him at Oxford and Cambridge, where (at the Request of the Vice-Chancellour) he preach'd a most excellent Sermon to that University.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1712- Books
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Mr. John Dunton's dying groans from the Fleet-Prison: or the national complaint, that the author of Neck or nothing has gone twelve years unrewarded, for his Early, Bold, and Successful Venture of Life and Fortune, in detecting his Majesty's Enemies when plotting in the Royal Palace to restore the Pretender, as 'twas represented, In an Humble Petition to his Majesty, that Mr. Dunton might not be left to Starve in a Jail, for the Debts he has contracted in serving The Royal Family: This Petition proving to our Gracious Sovereign, that 'tis Sir Robert Walpole's Duty, and Place (as First Lord of the Treasury) to see Publick Services rewarded, but more especially Mr Dunton's, as his Honour formerly acknowledg'd them in a Noble Present of Guineas, and by a Solemn Promise to see him further Rewarded, the Non-Performance whereof (it his Honour prove so ungrateful to a Man that ventur'd his All in the Service of his King and Country) will not only lay Mr. Dunton's utter Ruin at Sir Robert Walpole's Door, but will blacken his Name and Character to the World's End, as is sully prov'd in this Petition to his Majesty, which was sent to Sir Robert Walpole as soon as Printed, with a Promise it should never be publish'd, if this Knight of the Bath and Garter, will do Mr. Dunton that common Justice to inform his Majesty how long the Author of Neck or Nothing has gone unrewarded for his Distinguish'd Services to his King and Country. His Majesty's first Speech from the Throne. I will never forget the Obligations I have to those that have distinguish'd themselves by their Zeal and Firmness to the Protestant Succession, against all the Open and Secret Practices that have been used to defeat it.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723?]- Books
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Queen Robin: or the second part of Neck or nothing, detecting the secret reign of the four last years. In a familiar dialogue between Mr. Truman (alias Mr. John Dunton) and his friend, meeting accidentaly at the Proclaiming King George. The whole Discoveries Humbly inscrib'd to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and contain the True secret History of the White-Staff, in Answer to that False one, lately publish'd by the Earl of o-ford.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1714]- Books
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Queen Robin: or the second part of Neck or nothing, detecting the secret reign of the four last years. In a familiar dialogue between Mr. Truman (alias Mr. John Dunton) and his friend, meeting accidentaly at the Proclaiming King George. [The] whole Discoveries Humbly inscrib'd to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and contain the True secret History of the White-Staff, in Answer to that False one, lately publish'd by the Earl of O-Ford.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1714]- Books
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Neck for nothing or, A satyr upon two great little men now in the ministry. Who (as 'tis generally thought) have been the sole occasion why the author of Neck or nothing has gone five years unrewarded for his early, expensive, and successful hazards in detecting His Majesty's enemies in the worst of times. As 'twas sent in a letter to the Right Honourable James Graggs, Esq; one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state. With some reflections upon his honour's answer to this letter, which was only this, i don't know Mr. Dunton. To which is added, Mordecai's dying groans from the fleet-prison: or, Mr. John Danton's humble appeal to His Majesty's royal honour, justice, gratitude, and the rest of his princely virtues, whether he deserves a royal bounty to pay his debts (as a reward for the frequent venture of his life and fortune of secure the protestant succession in the illustrious House of Hanover) or else to be starved in a jayl to gratify the revenge of a covetous Duke and his proud son-in-law, for his having satyriz'd their scandalous avarice and ingratitude in the new secret history of the Court Whiggs, intitled, The state weathercocks. The whole written by Mr. John Dunton, author of Neck or nothing, and will be presented to the king at his return to London, by Mr. Dunton himself, that his distinguish'd services to His Majesty's sacred person and government might be no longer conceald from the royal family, by those Whigg-favourites, who (tho' they know that Mordecai has ruin'd himself to save his country) han't yet inform'd the king that nothing is done for him. His Majesty's first speech from the throne. I will never forget the obligations I have to those that have distinguish'd themselves by their zeal and firmness to the Protestant succession, against all the open and secret practices that have been us'd to defeat it.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1719?]- Books
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A cat may look on a Queen: or, a satyr on Her present Majesty. Attempted by John Dunton, author of the Satyr on King William. The second edition. To which is added, a distinct account of the several jewels in the crown of England.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: MDCCVIII. [1708]- Books
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King-Abigail : or, the secret reign of the she-favourite, detected and applied; in a sermon ... Deliver'd ... by Mr. John Dunton, ...
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1715- Books
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The bull-Baiting: or, Sach--ll dress'd up in fire-works. Lately brought over from the bear-garden in Southwark; and expos'd for the diversion of the citizens of London, at six pence a-piece. By John Dunton, Author of the Answer to Dr. K-Net, Entitl'd the Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance. Being remarks on a scandalons [sic] sermon bellow'd out at St. Paul's on on [sic] the fifth of November last, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, by Dr. Sach-ll.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1709- Books
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The Devil's martyrs: or, plain dealing, in answer to the Jacobite speeches of ... William Paul ... and John Hall. ... To which is added, The high-church martyrology: ... Written by Mr. John Dunton, ....
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1716- Books
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The medal: or, A Loyal Essay upon King George's Picture, As 'twas presented to Mr. John Dunton, (author of The Golden Age) By His Majesty's Order. Most Humbly Inscrib'd to his Excellency The Baron de Bothmer.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1715]- Books
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Athenianism: or, the new projects of Mr. John Dunton, author of the essay entitl'd, The hazard of a death-bed-repentance being, six hundred distinct treatises (in prose and verse) written with his own hand; and is an entire collection of all his writings, both in manuscript, and such as were formerly printed. To which is added, Dunton's farewel to printing. In some serious thoughts on those words of Solomon, Of making many Books there is no End, and muc[h] study is a weariness of the flesh. Vol. I. With the author's effigies, to distinguish the original and true copies from such as are false and imperfect. Take care also of being cheated by wooden cuts the right is that which is drawn and 'grav'd by then two celebrated artists, Knight and Vander Gucht. To this work is prefix'd an heroick poem upon Dunton's projects, written by the Athenian Society; with an alphabetical table of the several projects, questions, novelties, poems and characters inserted in this volume[.]
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1710]- Books
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Dunton's recantation; or, his reasons for deserting his whiggish principles and turning jacobite, at this time when a new rebellion is so much talk'd of. ...
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1716- Books
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Whigg loyalty, or an humble address to Her Majesty. By Mr. John Dunton, Author of the Court-Spy. In which he offers to appear and prove all His Discoveries, and several others of great Moment, to the Queen and Kingdom, if Her Majesty will be pleased to grant Her Royal Protection to Himself and Witnesses.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1714- Books
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The golden age: exemplified in the glorious life and reign of his present Majesty King George, and his numerous issue: or a vision of the future happiness of Great Britain, ... Part I. ... The whole humbly inscrib'd to his ... Majesty by Mr. John Dunton, ... and will be continued monthly ...
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1714- Books
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Royal gratitude; (or King George's Promise never to forget his Obligations to those who have Distinguish'd themselves in his Service) critically consider'd. In a letter To the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq; The First Lord of the Treasury, casion'd by a general Report that Mr. John Dunton, (author of Neck or Nothing) will speedily be Rewarded with a considerable Place or Pension. Written by that Person of Honour that sent Mr. Dunton those Early Discoveries of Oxford's and Bolingbroke's Treason, which no Man durst publish but himself, and which he therefore call'd Neck or Nothing. To which is added, The High-Church Gudgeons: or, A Day's Ramble to catch the foolish Jacks with their own Treason, with Mr. Dunton's Speech to the Lord-Mayor of London upon this Occasion. Also, A Trip to the Loyal Mug-House at Night, to Drink a Health to King George and the Royal Family.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1716- Books
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King George for ever: or, Dunton's speech to the Protestant associators of Great-Britain: but more especially to those of the Tower-Hamlets, with whom he has enter'd into a voluntary and strict Association, to Defend his Majesty's just Title to the British Crown, against the Pretender and all his Adherents. With a Copy of that Loyal Association which Mr. Dunton subscrib'd, and is the Subject of this Speech. To which is added, The neck-adventure; or, the case and sufferings of Mr. John Dunton, for daring to Detect the Treason and Villany of Oxford and Bolingbroke, whilst they were Reigning Favourites, in his Four Essays, intituled, The Court-Spy, Neck or Nothing, Queen Robin, and The Impeachment. The whole Discoveries (and Speech) most humbly Submitted to the Consideration of King George, our alone Rightful and Ever-Glorious Sovereign; and Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Townshend, One of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1715?]- Books
The young-students-library, containing extracts and abridgments of the most valuable books printed in England, and in the forreign journals, from the year sixty five, to this time. To which is added, a new essay upon all sorts of learning. Wherein the use of the sciences is distinctly treated on / By the Athenian Society. [Ed. by John Dunton] Also, a large alphabetical table, comprehending the contents of this volume. And of all the Athenian mercuries and supplements, &c. printed in the year 1691.
Athenian Society (London, England)Date: 1692- Books
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Books
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The state-weathercocks: or, a new secret history of the most distinguished favourites, both of the late and present reign. ... Writ by that Person of honour, that sent to Mr. John Dunton all those Jacobite secrets that composed Neck or nothing, ... To these new discoveries is added, the twentieth edition of Neck or nothing, ... Also Mordecai kneeling at the King's gate: ...
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1719]- Books
Athenian sport: or, two thousand paradoxes merrily argued, to amuse and divert the age ... / With improvements from the Honourable Mr. Boyle, Lock, Norris, Collier, Crowley, Dryden, Garth, Addison, and other illustrious wits. By a member of the Athenian Society [i.e. J. Dunton].
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1707- Books
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Dunton's whipping-post: or, a satyr upon every body. To which is added, a panegyrick on the most deserving gentlemen and ladies in the three kingdoms. With the whoring-pacquet: or, news of the St-ns and kept M-s's. Vol.I. To which is added, The living elegy: or, Dunton's Letter to his Few Creditors. With the Character of a summer-friend. Also, The secret-history of the weekly writers, In a distinct Challenge to each of them. To the Interloping Whipsters. You do not Jerk the Times; are like the Fleas, You bite the Skin, but leap from the Disease.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1706- Books
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The neck-adventure: Or the case and sufferings of Mr. John Dunton, author of those early discoveries, intitled, the court-spy, neck or nothing, Queen Robin, and, the impeachment. Which not only defeated the Jacobite-Plot in Southwark to restore the pretender, but were the sole occasion why the Irish Parliament inspected the pretender's listing of men in Dublin, and of wholly suppressing that traiterous project. The whole discoveries humbly submitted to the consideration of His Most Excellent Majesty.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: Printed in the year, 1715