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[Lucubrations] during a short recess. By - -, Esq; member of Parliament for the County of -[.]
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The suspension of the Triennial Bill, the properest means to unite the nation. In a letter to -
Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 1683 or 1684-1756.Date: 1716- Books
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Monitory hints to the minister, on the present state of the nation - the dismemberment of the empire - the necessary alteration of the constitution, &c. In a letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Shelburne: with occasional observations elucidating many Passages in a pamphlet lately published, entitled A defence of the Earl of Shelburne, &c.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Defence of opposition with respect to their conduct on Irish affairs, with explanatory notes. Dedicated to the right Honourable C. J. Fox. By an Irish gentleman, a member of the Whig Club.
Irish Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The sky-Rocket; or thoughts during the Easter recess of Parliament, on several very important subjects, and on several recent events. By - -, Esq. Member for the county of -.
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: [1782]- Books
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Political lectures. Volume the first - part the first: containing the lecture on spies and informers, and the first lecture on prosecutions for political opinion. To which is prefixed a narrative of facts relative to the recent attempts to wrest from the people the palladium of their natural and constitutional rights, liberty of speech. By John Thelwall.
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.Date: [1795]- Books
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The hanover-Spy: or, secret history of St. James's. From the reign of Queen Robin, down to the late misunderstanding in the royal palace. Publish'd by order of that person of honour who detected those Jacobite secrets that furnish'd out Neck or nothing; and consists only of such State Secrets as this Spy was privy to, or can prove by Persons now living at Court. The whole discoveries ascrib'd to that true Englishman and generous patriot, Benjamin Childe, Esq; late High-Sheriff for the County of Berks. By Mr. John Dunton, (author of Neck or Nothing) And is his Tenth successful Attempt to detect the Enemies to King George, and His Illustrious House, at the Hazard of his Life and Fortune, as is prov'd in-A Secret History of Whiggish Ingratitude, Inscrib'd to the King - And in - A Most Humble Petition to His Majesty-That he might be Presently Hang'd or Rewarded. - Both which are prefix'd to these New Discoveries.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1718]- Books
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The several protests made in the House of Lords, from November 13. 1721. to February 20. 1721/22.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1722- Books
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The reign of the English Robespierre. Addressed to the nation.
Patriot.Date: [1795]- Books
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The danger of violent innovations in the state exemplified from the reigns of the two first Stuarts, in a sermon preached at the cathedral and metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury, on Monday, Jan. 31, 1785, being the day appointed to be kept as the anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles I. By George Berkeley, D. L. (late student of Christ Church, Oxford) vice - dean of Canterbury, and Chancellor of Brecknock.
Berkeley, George, 1733-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The macaroni jester, and pantheon of wit; containing all that has lately transpired in the regions of politeness, whim, and novelty. Including A singular Variety of Jests, Witticisms, Bon-Mots, Conundrums, Toasts, Acrosticks, &c. - with Epigrams and Epitaphs, of the laughable Kind, and Strokes of Humour hitherto unequalled; which have never appeared in a Book of the Kind.
Cooke, John, 1731-1810.Date: [1773?]- Books
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Pet, - Messrs Braidwood, &c. J. Gibson, W.S. agent. S. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Messrs Braidwood and Bruce, upholsterers in Edinburgh, ...
Braidwood and Bruce (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: 1791]- Books
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England's warning: or, the copy of a letter, from a Hanoverian officer, in England, to his brother, in Hanover. Found near Canterbury - and faithfully translated from the German.
Weissel, Herman van.Date: 1756]- Books
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Neck or nothing: in a letter to the Right Honourable the Lord - being a supplement To the short History of the Parliament. Also the new scheme (mention'd in the foresaid History) which the English and Scotch Jacobites have concerted for bringing in the Pretender, Popery and Slavery. With the True Character or Secret History of the Present Ministry. Written by his Grace John Duke of -----
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1713- Books
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Thoughts on the English government. Addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England. In a series of letters. Letter the third. Character of Mr. Wooddeson-Reply to his Brief Vindication-His Manx Halfpenny-Description of a Lawyer's Argument-Mr. W. Suppresses two passages of the Attorney-General's Speech-The Form of Proceedings in Council-Mr. W. mutilates a passage from Hale-Form of Prayer for the High Court of Parliament-Mr. W. is Reproved-Of Tellurian Politicians-Expostulation with Mr. W. on the manner of his Brief Vindication-Reasons that induced the Author to write these Thoughts on the English Government-His reason for being a little severe with Mr. W. - Encomium on Mr. Whitaker's origin of Government.
Reeves, John, 1752?-1829.Date: 1799- Books
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Réflexions sur l'état actuel de la Grande-Bretagne, Comparativement avec son état passé, tant politique que civil, & sur son commerce, accompagnées de quelques pensées touchant l'émigration. Par Richard Champion, ecuyer, ci-devant vice-trésorier - général des troupes de sa-Majesté Britannique, & auteur des considérations sur la situation de la Grande-Bretagne, par rapport aux etats-unis. Traduit de l'Anglais, par M. Soulés.
Champion, Richard, 1743-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Another bag open'd. Tune. - "Wednesbury cocking."
Date: 1795?]- Books
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[The mushroom blues. A song. Tune - The black joke.]
Date: 1780]- Books
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An original camera obscura; or, The court, city, and country magic - lanthorn. In which every one may take a peep, laugh, and shake their noddles at each other, go away well pleased, and your humble servant My Lords ! ladies! and gentlemen! being an account of the most curious and uncommon collection of manuscripts (warranted originals) ever yet offered to the public. With as curious and uncommon a dedication to the Right Honourable the Earl of Cheatum. To be sold by auction, on Midsummer-day, O.S. By Mr. Smirk, at a Great Room in Soho-Square. Being the select part of a library of a gentleman of virt[u] not far from St. James's, going to retire, and sold by his express order. With many curious particulars, &c. &c. &c. &c.
R*. R*.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Books
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Publications printed by order of the Society for preserving liberty and property against Republicans and Levellers. Number Vii. Containing the charge of the Hon. Mr. Justice Ashurst, to the grand jury in the Court of King's Bench. - Appendix to the Bishop of Landaff's sermon. - Reflections on the present crisis.
Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)Date: [1793]- Books
The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan.
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724Date: [2012]- Books
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Publications printed by order of the Society for preserving liberty and property against Republicans and Levellers. Number VI. Containing reasons for contentment. - Lord Loughborough's speech on the alien bill.
Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)Date: [1793]- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: May 23. 1799Reference: 35692i- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i