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The Whole book of Psalms, Collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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His Majesty's most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the first day of June, 1732.
Great Britain. Sovereign (1727-1760 : George II)Date: 1732- Books
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The complete English traveller; Or, A new survey and description of England and Wales. Containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the Isles of man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain; under the following heads; I. The ancient and present state of each county with respect to agriculture, manufactures, trade and commerce, &c. II. Account of the air, soil, rivers, lakes, and mineral waters. III. A particular description of all that is curious in the cities, corporations, towns and villages; with the various fairs, markets, and distances from London. IV. Account of the cathedrals, collegiate, and Parish churches; together with the remains of abbies, priories, nunneries, and other religious houses. V. Description of the palaces, houses, gardens and parks, belonging to several of the nobility, gentry, &c. VI. Account of all the remarkable battles, sieges, castles and forts, whether Roman, Saxon, Danish, or Norman. VII. Account of all the ancient monuments, with the reasons for which they were first erected. VIII. Descriptions of every natural curiosity, whether mines, rocks, caves, caverns, grottos, or fossils. IX. Abstract of the lives of such persons, as have done honour to the counties where they were born, whether kings, princes, peers, generals, admirals, divines, lawyers, physicians, philosophers, poets, historians, &c. To which is added, a concise and accurate description of that part of Great Britain called Scotland. Its ancient and present state, antiquities and natural curiosities: together with the manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. By Nathaniel Spencer, Esq; By the King's Royal Licence and Authority.
Sanders, Robert, 1727-1783.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Observations on divers passages of scripture, Placing many of them in a light altogether new, ascertaining the meaning of several not determinable by the methods commonly made use of by the learned, and proposing to consideration probable conjectures on others different from what have been hitherto recommended to the attention of the curious; grounded on circumstances incidentally mentioned in books of voyages and travels into the East. Relating I. To the weather of Judă. II. Their living in tents there. III. Its houses and cities. IV. The diet of its inhabitants, & c. V. Their manner of traveling. VI. The eastern methods of doing persons honour. VII. Their books. VIII. The natural, civil and military state of Judă IX. ¡gypt. X. Miscellaneous matters.
Harmer, Thomas, 1714-1788.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The compleat English gardener, Or Gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, that all who are desirous of managing a garden, may do it effectually, without any other instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best method of managing bees, both for profit and pleasure. Together with the whole art of breeding and rearing, fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, pigeons and rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particularly such as infest houses, gardens, dairies, barns, bees, poultry, rules to judge of the weather and several other articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, gardener, at Overton in Wiltshire; who has practised gardening, thro' all its branches, in many counties, upwards of forty years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: 1769- Books
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An accurate description of Newgate. With the rights, privileges, allowances, fees, dues, and customs thereof. Together with a parallel between the master-debtors side of the said prison, and the several sponging-houses in the county of Middlesex. Wherein are set forth, The Cheapness of Living, Civility, Sobriety, Tranquillity, Liberty of Conversation, and Diversions of the former. And the Expensive Living, Incivility, Extortions, Close Confinement, and Abuses of the latter. Together with a faithful Account of the Impositions of Bailiffs; &c. and their vile Usage of all such Unfortunate Persons as fall into their Hands. To which is added, A true account of the parentage, birth, education, and practices of that noted Thief-Catcher Jonathan Savage. With an Account of the Methods to be used for Recovering Stollen Goods. Written for the publick good. By B. L. of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1724- Books
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The gallimaufry; or, budget of Momus: containing the tinker's song, and beggar's song, in the pantomime of Merry Sherwood. Prologue to The farce of Crotchet Lodge. The comic song of the waiter. The strolling player and the farmer, a Tale. Epilogue to speculation. Money is your friend, a comic song. A plague on both your houses. The poor old woman of eighty. Two new songs in the Farce of lock and key. The Dutch fisherman. Song, sung by Mr. Munden, in the Mysteries of the castle.
Date: [1796?]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The Whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferred with the Hebrew: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Date: 1767- Books
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The usefulness of the stage to religion, and to government: shewing the advantage of the drama in all nations since its first institution. With an account of the rise and progress of the play-houses that were put down, and Remarks on all the Dramatick Pieces which have been Published and Played since the late Act of Parliament for Licencing the Stage, with the Reasons that Occasioned it. Also A Distinction between the Stage and the Press, and our present Written Plays and the Drama in its Purity, with Reflections on the Taste of the Times, as to Ballad Operas, Pantomines, Dumb Shew, Tumbling, Dancing, and Entertainments.
Date: [1738]- Books
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Monasticon Hibernicum; or, an history of the abbies, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland. Interspersed With Memoirs Of Their Several Founders And Benefactors, And Of Their Abbots And Other Superiours, To the Time of their Final Suppression. Likewise, An Account of the Manner in which the Possessions belonging to those Foundations were disposed of, and the Present State of their Ruins. Collected From English, Irish, and Foreign Historians, Records, and other Authentic Documents, and from many Curious and Valuable Manuscripts. With engravings Of The Several Religious And Military Habits. and a map Illustrating The History. By Mervyn Archdall, A. M. Member Of The Royal Irish Academy, And Chaplain To The Right Honourable Francis-Pifrpoint Lord Conyngham.
Archdall, Mervyn, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The complaints of the poor people of England: containing remarks part I. I. On government. Part II. I. II. The defects in the English government, as to representation. III. The ignorance of the poor, and the imperfection of the laws. IV. disproportion between crimes and punishments. V. Capital punishments. Part III. I. The Royal household, and public expenditure. II. The Church. III. The law-courts. IV. The army. V. The navy. VI. Schools. Vii. Poor-rates, and poor-houses. Viii. Public hospitals. IX. Prisons. X. Feudal and seignoral rights, labourers, and manufacturers. Part IV. I. Address to the friends of reform. II. Balance of pinions. III. Price of provisions and labour-rules for provident societies; free schools; workhouses; address of ladies at Walworth; of Mr. Muir, and Mr. F. Palmer. By G. Dyer, B. A. late of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
Dyer, George, 1755-1841.Date: 1793- Books
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Case of Great-Britain and America, addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament.
Bushe, Gervase Parker, 1744?-1793.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Notitia monastica; or, an account of all the abbies, priories, and houses of friers, formerly in England and Wales. And also of all the colleges and hospitals founded before A.D. MDXL. By the Right Reverend Doctor Thomas Tanner, Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Published A.D. MDCCXLIV. by John Tanner, M.A. Vicar of Lowestoft in Suffolk, and Precentor of the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph. And now reprinted with many additions, by James Nasmith, M. A. Rector of Snalewell in Cambridgeshire, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable John Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The present state of the nation: particularly with respect to its trade, finances, &c. &c. addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament.
Knox, William, 1732-1810.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The present state of the nation; particularly with respect to its trade, finances, &c. &c'. addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament.
Knox, William, 1732-1810.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Various methods to prevent fires in houses and shipping, and for preserving the lives of people at fires, with an account of remarkable accidents by fire, in different Parts of the World, selected historically, for the space of One Hundred and Eight Years, to this present Period: Wherein The Negligence, of Architects and Builders, in constructing Buildings in Town and Country, is pointed out: and Shewing, That the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences is a public Benefit to those Commercial Islands. With Abstracts from the last Act of Parliament, to regulate Buildings, and prevent Fires in London. Necessary to be known in all Families, from the lowest Peasant to the highest Peer in the Realm. Approved by the Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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A Pocket companion for Oxford: Or, Guide through the University. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges; the gardens, statues, busts, pictures; the hieroglyphics at Magdalen College, and all other curiosities in the University. With an historical account of the foundation of the colleges, their history, and present state. With lists of the chancellors, high-stewards, vice-chancellors, proctors, heads of colleges, professors, lecturers, &c. Adorned with a plan and other copper-plates. To which are added, correct descriptions of the buildings, the tapestry, paintings, sculptures, temples, gardens, and all other curiosities at Blenheim, Ditchley, and Stow, the seats of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Honourable the Earl of Litchfield, the Right Honourable the Earl Temple, and other considerable houses in the neighbourhood.
Date: 1770- Books
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A Pocket companion for oxford: Or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges; the gardens, statues, busts, pictures; the hieroglyphics at Magdalen College, and all other curiosities in the University. With an historical account of the foundation of the colleges, their history, and present state. With lists of the Chancellors, High-Stewards, Vice-Chancellors, Proctors, Heads of Colleges, professors, lecturers, &c. Adorned with a plan and other copper-plates. To which are added, correct descriptions of the buildings, the tapestry, paintings, sculptures, temples, gardens, and all other curiosities at Blenheim, Ditchley, and Stow, the seats of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Honourable the Earl of Litchfield, the Right Honourable the Earl Temple, and other considerable houses in the neighbourhood.
Date: 1766- Books
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A word in time to both Houses of Parliament; recommended to the perusal of each Member, before he either speaks, or votes, for or against a militia-bill: And not improper to be read by all those Gentlemen in the Country, who are desirous to form a just Idea of this important Affair. By a member of neither House.
Member of Neither House of Parliament.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The royal kalendar: or, Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. For the year 1799; Including a complete and correct list of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session in September, 1796. Upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public: containing, England. Lists of both houses of Parliament; all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the court, in the City of London, and different parts of the kingdom; the Army and Navy; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the peers, baronets; state, law, revenue, and public, offices; universities, physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both houses of Parliament; list of the baronets; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices, bankers, deans, &c. &c. America. IV. Governors, law and revenue offices, &c. &c. Carefully corrected at the respective offices.
Date: 1799]- Books
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A Pocket companion for Oxford: Or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges; the gardens, statues, busts, pictures; the Hieroglyphics at Magdalen College, and all other curiosities in the University. With an historical account of the foundation of the colleges, their history, and present state. With lists of the chancellors, high-stewards, vice-chancellors, proctors, heads of colleges, professors, lecturers, &c. Adorned with a plan and other copper-plates. To which are added, correct descriptions of the buildings, the tapestry, paintings, sculptures, temples, gardens, and all other curiosities at Blenheim, Ditchley, and Stow, the seats of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Honourable the Earl of Litchfield, the Right Honourable the Earl Temple, and several other considerable houses and gardens in the neighbourhood.
Date: 1763- Books
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A history of the last session of the present Parliament. With a Correct list of Both Houses.
Date: [1718]- Books
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Thoughts on the present alarming crisis. Humbly addressed to both Houses of Parliament. By a well-meaning Briton.
Well-meaning Briton.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
Games, Abram, 1914-1996.Date: [1942]Reference: 20282i