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Common sense a common delusion. Or, the generally-received notions of natural causes, deity, religion, virtue, &c. as exhibited in Mr. Pope's Essay on man, proved Ridiculous, impious, and the Effect of Infatuation; and the chief Cause of the present formidable Growth of Vice among Christians, and the great Stumbling-Block in the Way of Infidels. Earnestly recommended to the Perusal of all Men of Good-Sense, and Lovers of Truth. By Almonides a believing heathen.
Almonides.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The Immortal mentor: or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life. In three parts. By Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott. [Four lines from Pope]
Date: 1796- Books
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An essay on criticism. Written in the year MDCCIX. With the commentary and notes of W. Warburton, A.M.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1744]- Pictures
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Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 544375i- Pictures
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Men playing draughts in Button's Coffee-House, London, ca. 1720. Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 544376i- Books
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Declaration and testimony, for the doctrine and order of the church of Christ, and against the errors of the present times. By the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania.
Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania (1782-1801)Date: [1784]- Books
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A Short account of a remedy for the certain cure of consumptions, spitting of blood, asthmas and common coughs, together with a panegyric and some account of its inventor, the celebrated John Anthony Gueldenstaedt, physician to the present Empress of all the Russias, professor of natural history in the Imperial Academy at Petersburg, and lecturer on botany at Moscow, member of several societies in London, Paris and Berlin. [Three lines of quotations]
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A master-key to popery: in five parts. Part I. Containing a discovery of the most secret practices of the secular and regular Romish priests in their auricular confession. Part II. A true copy of the Pope's yearly bull of indulgencies and pardon of sins, to all those tha serve in the war against the enemies of the Romish religion. The explanation of the bull, with some remarks upon it. Part III. An account of their masses, privileg'd altars, transubstantiation, and purgatory, and of the means the priests make use of to delude the people. Part. IV. Of the inquisitors, and their practices in several instances. Part V. Of their prayers, adoration of images, and relicks, &c. By D. Antonio Gavin, born and educated in Spain, some years secular priest in the Church of Rome, and since 1715, minister of the Church of England.
Gavin, Antonio, active 1726.Date: 1773- Books
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The conflagration: a poem on the last day, in four parts. By the Reverend Benjamin Francis. [One line of Scripture text]
Francis, Benjamin, 1734-1799.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A View of the principles, operations and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania, together with some observations on the effects of a sinking fund, tending to shew that this state, by a proper application of her present resources, may redeem the whole capital of her funded debt in a few years. "Public credit is public wealth."
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume I.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An address to an assembly of the friends of American manufactures, convened for the purpose of establishing a society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts, read in the University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday the 9th of August 1787, by Tench Coxe, Esq and published at their request.
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Declaration and testimony, for the doctrine and order of the church of Christ, and against the errors of the present times. To which is prefixed, a narrative, concerning the maintainance of the reformation-testimony. By the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania. [Two lines of Scripture texts]
Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania (1782-1801)Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The Beauties of poetry, British and American: containing some of the productions of Waller, Milton, Addison, Pope, Shirley, Parnell, Watts, Thomson, Young, Shenstone, Akenside, Gray, Goldsmith, Johnson, Moore, Garrick, Cowper, Beattie, Burns, Merry, Cowley, Wolcott, Palmerston, Penrose. Evans, Barlow, Dwight, Freneau, Humphreys, Livingston, J. Smith, W.M. Smith, Ladd, Bayard, Hopkinson, James, Markoe, Prichard, Fentham, Bradford, Dawes, Lathrop, Osborne.
Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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The mourner: or, The afflicted relieved. By Benjamin Grosvenor, D.D. [Three lines of quotations]
Grosvenor, B. (Benjamin), 1676-1758.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Horae lyricae. Poems chiefly of the lyric kind. In three books. Sacred I. To devotion and piety. II. To virtue, honour, and friendship. III. To the memory of the dead. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Horace]
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on the principle of animation. Read and defended at a public examination, held by the medical professor, before the Hon. John Wheelock, L.L.D. president, and the governors of Dartmouth College, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 18, 1799. By Daniel Adams, A.B. [One line from Pope]
Adams, Daniel, 1773-1864.Date: --1799- Books
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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. By Hugh Blair, D.D. one of the Ministers of the High Church, and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres in the University, of Edinburgh.
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / by the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey ; and member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.Date: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]- Books
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Liberty: a Pindaric ode. [One line in Greek from Epictitus]
Crawford, Charles, 1752-Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind. By the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey; and member of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A letter to the Roman Catholics of the city of Worcester, from the late Chaplain of that society. Stating the motives which induced him to relinquish their communion, and become a member of the Protestant church. [Nineteen lines of quotations]
Wharton, Charles Henry, 1748-1833.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world; by the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodised and digested under distinct heads, with additions, by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him knowledge of life, and make him well received in all companies. For the improvement of youth; yet not beneath the attention of any.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The tombs of the popes : landmarks in papal history / by Ferdinand Gregorovius; translated from the 2d and enl. German ed., with a memoir of the author, by R.W. Seton-Watson.
Gregorovius, Ferdinand, 1821-1891.Date: 1903- Books
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Warm beere, or A treatise wherein is declared by many reasons, that beere so qualified is farre more wholsome then that which is drunke cold : With a confutation of such objections that are made against it; published for the preservation of health.
Date: 1641