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Of bathing in the hot-baths, at Bathe; chiefly With Regard to the Palsie, and some Diseases in women. In a Letter, Addressed to Doctor Friend. By John Wynter, M. B. e Col. Christi, Cantab.
Wynter, John, 1699-Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Animadversions upon a paper intitled A letter from a clergyman in the country, to his Friend at Deal. In which, among other Things, The Case of Subscribing to the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, &c. is largely considered. To which is annexed by the Publisher, a copy of the said letter.
Date: 1753- Books
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Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry; chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, of Scotland. in a Series of Letters to a Friend. Written in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Five. By James Anderson, Author of the Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs. ...
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Plays written by Sir John Vanbrugh. In Two Volumes. ... Containing The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger. The Provok'd Wife. Esop, in Two Parts. ... Containing The Confederacy. The False Friend. The Mistake. A Journey to London. The Provok'd Husband.
Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Some thoughts on self-love, innate-ideas, free-will, taste, sentiment, liberty, and necessity, &c. Occasioned by reading Mr. Hume's works, and the short treatise, written in French by Lord Bolingbroke, on compassion. Together with a few Remarks on the Genuine Sequel; and on Mr. Knowles's Answer to the Essay on Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. By the author of The essay on spirit.
Clayton, Robert, 1695-1758.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battle between the antient and modern books in St. James's library. Also a Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, in a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library. Also a discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit, in a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment. With the author's apology; an explanatory notes. By W. Wotton, B.D. and others.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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A description of the mock election at Garrat, on the seventh of this month. Wherein is given Some Historical Account of its first Rise, the various Cavalcades of the different Candidates, the Speeches they made upon the Hustings, the whimsical Oath of Qualification, And An Authentic Copy of their several droll Printed Addresses. Collected, for the Amusement of a Country Friend, by a person on the spot.
Person on the spot.Date: 1768- Books
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Some memoirs of the life and death of the Reverend Mr. John Shower, Late Minister of the Gospel in London. Wherein is inserted. An Account of his Travels through France, Italy, Germany and Holland, by a Learned Gentleman that was his Companion beyond Sea, and his intimate Friend ever since. Together with his funeral-sermon Preach'd at old-jury, July 10. 1715. By W. Tong.
Tong, William, 1662-1727.Date: 1716- Books
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An Elegy on the death of that worthy Friend Priscilla Coleman, deceased, widow of John Coleman, late of Sherburne, on the island of Nantucket; who departed this life on the 14th day of the third month. 1762. ...
Date: 1762- Books
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The city and country's calamity: or, Ninety-Nine plagues of an Empty purse. Containing I. The Force of Woman's Magick: Or, The great Virtue of Hoop-Petticoats. II. The Quaker's Feast: Or, The Yea and Nay Gossips. To which is added, Providence the best Friend to the Unfortunate. Written by a Gentleman now in Necessity
Gentleman now in necessity.Date: [1720?]- Books
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An authentic account of the life and death of Mr John Bunyan, Late Minister of the Gospel in Bedford. By a Friend to the Cause of True Religion. An Intire new edition: To which are now added, notes, Explanatory, Experimental, and Practical: Together with an elegy to his Memory. Designed as a Companion for The Holy War, in Octavo Size; And likewise for The Pilgrim's Progress, with Notes, By W. Mason.
Date: [1782]- Books
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Authentic memoirs of that exquisitely villanous Jesuit, Father Richard Walpole. Being The Copy of a letter, written from London, by a Gentleman, to his Friend, another English Gentleman residing at Padoua in Italy: Laying open his abominable Practices and base Dealings with that wicked Traytor Edward Squire; Who was lately, and most deservedly, executed for his poisonous Attempts against the sacred and precious life of Her Most Excellent Majesty Q. Elizabeth; And also on that of his Excellency Robert Earl of Essex. Illustrated with a very pertinent Appendix.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A looking-glass for the antinomians: In which is clearly shewn that their faith, notwithstanding all their attempts to vindicate it on [Scripture Grounds, is really different from that faith which is required by the Gospel. With a prefatory address to professors of religion, of all denominations. By a Friend to the Gospel of Christ.
Slade, of Shrewsbury.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
Pioneering women in medicine and the medical sciences / Gerald W. Friedland, Jennifer A.F. Tender, Leah J. Dickstein.
Date: [2015]- Books
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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. A pious meditation, composed in the last century, by that truly benevolent patriot, and Compassionate Friend to the Poor Citizens of Bristol, John Whitson, Esq; Alderman of the said City, and a Member in Several Parliaments. Collected from the Author's Manuscripts. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, collected from authentic records, by George Symes Catcott.
Whitson, John, 1555?-1629.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A critical commentary on such books of the Apocrypha, as are appointed to be read in churches, viz. Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, History of Susanna, and Bel and the dragon. With Two Dissertations on The Books of Maccabees and Esdras. Being a Continuation of Bishop Patrick and Mr. Lowth. By Richard Arnald, B. D. Rector of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. Communicated to the Author by a learned Friend.
Arnald, Richard, 1700-1756.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
Joseph Lister the friend of man / [Hector Charles Cameron].
Cameron, Hector Charles, 1878-1958.Date: 1948- Books
Joseph Lister the friend of man / [Hector Charles Cameron].
Cameron, Hector Charles, 1878-1958.Date: 1948- Books
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Medicina gymnastica: or every man his own physician. A treatise concerning the power of exercise in the cure of several distempers, viz. Consumptions, Dropsy, Hypochondria, and all Nervous Disorders, with several Cases of Persons being cured. By Francis Fuller, M.A. To which is added, rules for health and long life. Written by an eminent physician, for the Direction of a particular Friend, in Regard to his Health; with an Account of a Muscular Exercise recommended to be daily practised, as the best Preservative to Health.
Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A compleat collection of the works of the Reverend and learned John Kettlewell, B. D. Formerly Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwick-Shire. In two volumes. The several treatises printed from copies revis'd and improv'd by the author, a little before his death. ... . To which is prefix'd, the life of the author. Wherein are contained many Remarkable Transactions of his Time; compiled from the Collections of George Hickes, D.D. and Robert Nelson, Esq; and Compleated by a Friend of the Author at the Desire both of Dr. Hickes and Mr. Nelson. With an appendix of several original papers.
Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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An authentick and accurate journal of the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, with a plan of the town, from the day the French sat down before it, to the hour of it's being taken; freed from the impertinent Load of Circumstances, with which our Accounts of it in the Publick Papers were burthened. Taken on the spot, by an English officer of distinction, who was a Voluntier both in the Lines and Town. Transmitted by him to his Friend in London, and brought over with the Express which assured of it's Caption. With some few Political as well as Military Remarks.
English officer of distinction.Date: [1747]- Books
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Florence Nightingale : the wounded soldier's friend / by Eliza F. Pollard.
Pollard, Eliza F., 1840-1911.Date: 1902- Books
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Taste. A satire. In an epistle to a friend.
Date: 1753- Books
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A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as deserve to be generally known: Interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In Several Letters to a Friend. By the author of the farmer's letters.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]