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The whimsical jester, or, Rochester in high glee. Containing great variety of diverting jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brilliant Bon Mots, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humorous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite mirth improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being designed, To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language. First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq; Most Humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Tom Gay's Comical jester, or The wit's merry medley, refin'd; being a new and most beautiful collection of brilliant jests, funny joaks, merry stories, Humorous Adventures, Pleasant Tales, Strange Frolics, Smart Repartees, Witty Quibbles, Irish-Bulls, &c. &c. To which is added, A curious Collection of New Conundrums, Rebusses and Riddles, sharp Epigrams, droll Epitaphs, amorous Poems, Songs, Fables, &c. The whole being entirely freed from that Dulness which infests most other Jest-Books and is calculated to kill Care, banish Sorrow, promote Mirth, crack the Sides, chear the Heart, and prove an everlasting Cordial for Low Spirits.
Gay, Tom.Date: 1765- Books
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The theatre of mirth; or, fun a-la-mode. Containing great Variety of Diverting Jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brilliant Bon Mots, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humourous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. Exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite Mirth, improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being design'd To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The theatre of fun, or, Roderick Random in high glee. Containing great Variety of Diverting Jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brillant Bon Mois, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humourous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. Exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite Mirth, improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being designed, To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Essays in divinity and physic, proving the divinity of the person of Jesus Christ, and the spiritual sense of Scripture: in refutation of Dr. J. Priestley, and the Socinian system. With the True Method of Trying the Spirits. Also An Account of the Cause and Cure of our Sovereign's Late Illness, with an Exposition of Animal Magnetism and Magic. And An Appendix, Concerning the Impolicy of Separating, at present, from Communion with the Established Church. Also, Concerning the Further Connection of Divinity and Physic. By William Spence, M. D. Chirurg. Londinensis, et Societatis Exegeticae Succae Soc.
Spence, William, active 1780Date: [1792]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brillant [sic] jests, the most excellent Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the age, Mr. Colley Cibber, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
Wounded spirits / Leslie D. Weatherhead.
Weatherhead, Leslie D. (Leslie Dixon), 1893-1976.Date: 1962- Digital Images
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Figure used to ward of malevolent spirits
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Methylated spirits: product label. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 527273iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Pictures
Methylated spirits: product label. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 526150iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Books
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A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations; viz. the volatile salt, oil, spirit, and fixed salt. To which are annexed, Divers remarkable Instances of the Efficacy of these noble Medicines in the following Disorders: The Raw Chrystals; in Fits, Convulsions, Head-Ach, &c. The Volatile Salt, in the Consumption, Scurvy, Weakness of the Nerves, Venereal Distemper, Obstruction of the Menses, Weakness of the Stomach, &c. The Spirit, in the Dropsy, Obstructions; Lowness of Spirits, Fainting, &c. The Oil, in the Gout, Asthma, Rheumatism, &c. The Fixed Salt, in the Stone, Gravel, &c. The second edition, with additions. By Wm. Taube, Dove, surgeon.
Dove, William Taube.Date: MDCCLXII. [1757]- Books
Calling the spirits : a history of seances / Lisa Morton.
Morton, Lisa, 1958-Date: 2020- Books
Knowing demons, knowing spirits in the early modern period / Michelle D. Brock, Richard Raiswell, David R. Winter, editors.
Date: [2018]- Books
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The christmas frolick; or, Mirth for the Holidays. Consisting of A great Number of admirable Stories never before printed; with a select Collection of others, from rare, old, and scarce Books. With a Variety of New Songs, written on purpose for this Work, and adapted to well known Tunes. Likewise a select Store of New Jests, Anecdotes, Whims, Oddities. &c. copied as spoken by our First-Rate Wits; and never yet offered to public Inspection. The whole calculated to warm the Imagination, raise the Spirits in the gloom of Winter, and procure, what every one wishes, A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year
Date: [1775]- Books
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The filberd: or, the compleatest medley of wit ever yet published: being the marrow of all other jest-books. Calculated To kill Care, banish Sorrow, promote Mirth, and prove an everlasting Cordial to Low Spirits. Being a Comical Collection of Funny Stories, Lively Jests, Witty Repartees, Humourcus Tales, Smart Quibbles, Ridiculous Bulls, Coaical Humbugs, Droll Narrations, New Conundrums, Merry Epigrams, Keen Epitaphs, Toasts, Sentiments, Hob Nobs, Choice Songs, Diverrting Poems, &c. The whole teaching the agreeable Art of Story-Telling, and furnishing Pieces of Wit for the Amusement and Improvement of both Sexes. Wit, a thousand different Shapes it bears, And comely in a thousand Forms appears.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The spouter's companion; or, theatrical remembrancer. Containing a select collection of the most esteemed prologues and epilogues, Which Have Been Spoken By the most celebrated Performers of both Sexes. Together with variety of curious originals, written on purpose for this work. Among which are Several Prologues and Epilogues, To be spoken in the Characters of Bloods, Bucks, Choice Spirits, Fribbles, Bravos, &c. Together with A New Prologue on Epilogues, and An Epilogue on Prologues. To which is added, the spouter's medley; containing select parts of the most celebrated comedies and tragedies, contrasted in such a Manner as to render their Assemblage extremely diverting to the Readers, Speakers, and Hearers.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language. First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq; Most Humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer, and Mr. T. W's very good Masters the Town.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The buck's merry companion. An entire new and choice collection of the most excellent, joyous songs, catches and cantatas, sung by several select societies of bloods, bucks, merry fellows, Choice Spirits, and Celebrated Geniusses. And a much greater Variety of Droll Originals than were ever published in any Collection before. Also plain directions for singing with a good grace, By which a Person of a bad Voice, may render himself agreeable. And such as have a tolerable one will shine to the utmost Advantage. To which is added a new collection of buckish toasts. Many of which were wrote on purpose for this Work.
Date: [1766?]- Books
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A history of the ridiculous extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle; Occasion'd by his reading Books treating of Magick, the Black-Art, Daemoniacks, Conjurers, Witches, Hobgoblins, Incubus's, Succubus's, and the Diabolical-Sabbath; of Elves, Fairies, Wanton Spirits, Genius's, Spectres and Ghosts; of Dreams, the Philosopher's-Stone, Judicial Astrology, Horoscopes, Talismans, Lucky and Unlucky Days Eclipses, Comets, and all sorts of Apparitions, Divinations, Charms, Enchantments, and other Superstitious Practices. With Notes containing a multitude of Quotations out of those Books, which have either Caused such Extravagant Imaginations, or may serve to Cure them. Written Originally in French, by the Abbot B-; and now Translated into English.
Bordelon, Laurent, 1653-1730.Date: 1711- Books
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An authentick relation of the many hardships and sufferings of a Dutch sailor, who was put on shore on the uninhabited isle of Ascension, by Order of the Commadore of a Squadron of Dutch Ships. With A Remarkable Account of his Converse with Apparitions and Evil Spirits, during his Residence on the Island. And A particular Diary of his Transactions from the Fifth of May to the Fourteenth of October, on which Day he perished in a miserable Condition. Taken from the original journal, found in his Tent by some sailors, who landed from on Board the Compton, Captain Morson Commander, in January 1725/6.
Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
Potato spirits in early days / Rudolf Weinhold.
Weinhold, RudolfDate: 1986- Digital Images
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The strange woman and her spirits, 1621.
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The tryal of spirits. Or, a treatise upon the nature, office, and operations of the spirit of truth. By James Relly.
Relly, James, 1722?-1778.Date: 1756