36 results filtered with: Anecdotes - Early works to 1800
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Choice scraps, historical and biographical, consisting of pleasing stories and diverting anecdotes, Most of them short to prevent their being tiresome. Comprehending much useful Information and innocent Amusement. For young minds. Embellished with copper-plate cuts.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The pocket remembrancer: or, historical and entertaining anecdotes; being a new and elegant assemblage of the most ingenious sallies of wit, Lively Efdusions Of Fancy, Interesting Portraits Of Virtue And Vice, Humorous Adventures, Whimsical Expedients, wise sayings, pleasing stories, memorable actions, &c. of poets, generals, statesmen, and philosophers, which occur in the annals of ancient and modern history. The Whole Calculated to reflect, in their proper Colours, the various Effects of Virtue and of Vice, of Wisdom and of Folly, as they have from Time to Time been displayed on the grand Theatre of the World; to store the Mind with a Variety of useful and agreeable Knowledge; and thereby, without Trouble or Expence, to qualify the Reader to converse with Care and Propriety, and to shine in the politest Companies.
Date: 1800- Books
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Tabby in Elysium, a mock poem, from the German of F. W. Zachariae, by R. E. Raspe.
Zachariä, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1726-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The marlborough garland. A real anecdote from common life.
Date: 1795- Books
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Falstaff alive again! Or, A choice collection of jests, witticisms, anecdotes, &c. Both ancient and modern. By a Member of Comus's Court.
Member of Comus's Court.Date: 1793- Books
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A collection of interesting anecdotes, religious, moral and entertaining, selected from several eminent authors.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellany.
Croft, John, 1732-1820.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A help to discourse: or, more merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical, questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, poesies, love-toyes, &c. are added, and plentiful'y dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellour, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health; never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Date: 1667- Books
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A Select collection of historical tracts and anecdotes, in English and French. [One line in Latin from Horace]
Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Ornatissimus joculator: or, the Compleat Jester. Containing, 1. celebrated jests, 2. merry jokes, 3. witty punns, 4. Notorious Bulls, 5. Pleasant Tales, And 6. Uncommon and Delightful Stories. Accurately collected, and plac'd under their Proper and Distinct Heads. To which is added, Wit's activity display'd: Instructing the meanest Capacity how to perform several Pieces of Art and Ingenuity to the Wonder and Admiration of the Spectators.
Date: 1703- Books
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The amusing instructor; or, a key to the Italian classics: containing a choice collection of remarkable sayings, and anecdotes, in Italian and English. Wherein the genuine pronunciation of the Italian is rendered obvious at sight, by means of proper characters. Also, an obe on liberty, ascribed to petrarch; and elegant sonnet, hitherto unpublished, on the suppression of the celebrated academy Della Crusca with an lmitation of each in English verse, by a distinguished Pen. The whole preceded by a copious and critical treatise on the pronunciation of the Italian tongue, by the editor, Antonio Montucci, LL.D. A native of Sienna, and graduate of the University of that city.
Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The second part of the history of the London clubs. Particularly, the Farting Club, the No-Nos'd Club, the Misers Club, the Atheistical Club. With a comical relation of the devil in a bear skin.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1720?]- Books
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Anecdotes and biography, including many modern characters in the circles of fashionable and official life, selected from the protfolios of a distinguished literary and political character, lately deceased, alaphabetically arranged. By L.T. Rede.
Rede, Leman Thomas, 1754 or 1755-1810.Date: 1799- Books
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Anecdotes intéressantes de l'amour conjugal, revues & exposées avec précision.
Poulain, Mlle, active 1770-1787.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The philosophers banquet : furnished with few dishes for health: but large discourse for pleasure. Dilating by table, conference [sic] of the natures and qualities of things, the alterations & changes of states, of the ingenious and acted conceitednes of men, both phisically, and philosophically. Translated by W.B. Esquire.
Date: 1609- Books
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The history of man: displaying the various powers, faculties, capacities, virtues, vices, and defects of the human mind: As Exhibited In the Conduct, Sentiments, great Undertakings, Improvements, and Attainments, as well in the Arts Civil as Military, of the most Extra-Ordinary Genius's, in the different Ages and Nations of the World. Digested under proper heads. The whole interspers'd with moral reflections. And Calculated to increase Knowledge, to promote Virtue, to discourage Vice, and to furnish Topics for innocent and ingenious Conversation. Precepts may lead us, but Examples draw. In two volumes. ...
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Jack Smart's Merry jester: or, the wit's compleat treasury. Being a most Excellent Collection of Entertaining Jests, Curious Quibbles, Tart Repartees, Pleasant Tales, Smart Jokes, Comical Stories, Keen Waggeries, Modern Humbugs, Agreeable Adventures, And excellent Bulls. To which is added, a beautiful collection of entire new rebusses and riddles, comical Conundrums, stinging Epigrams, Acrostics, queer Epitaphs, jovial Songs, merry Tales, choice Fables, Pastorals, &c. &c. The whole of this Performance being nothing but Cream; and is entirely freed from all that old insipid Stuff, which abounds in most other Jesters; and is certainly the compleatest, merriest, and best Thing of the Kind every yet published.
Smart, Jack, Author of "Jack Smart's merry jester".Date: [1755?]- Books
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Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bon mots, repartees, etc. To which is added, a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes.
Croft, John, 1732-1820.Date: MDCCXCII [1792]- Books
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The polite miscellany: containing variety of food for the mind ; being an elegant collection of moral, humourous, and improving essays, ...
Date: 1764- Books
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The rational humourist: consisting of a selection of anecdotes, bon mots, &c. elegant, sentimental, and mirthful.
Date: 1799- Books
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Rochester's joaks, containing, the merry pranks of Lord Rochester Lord Moon, the Earls of Warwick, and Pembroke, Ben Johnson, and Ogle the life-guardman. With the diverting frolicks and Fancies of King Charles and his concubines.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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A helpe to discovrse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty philosophicall, grammaticall, physicall, astronomicall questions and answers. As also, epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toyes, &c. re-added and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle and prognostication, with additions, or a helpe to preserve his health, never before printed.
E. PDate: 1648- Books
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A help to discourse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters : Consisting of witty, philosophical, grammatical, physical, astronomical, questions and answers. As also epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toyes, &c. re-added, and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellour, and his yearly oracle, and prognostication, with additions, or a help to preserve his health, never before printed. As also the art of cookery, and sundry experiments, and their extractions of oyl, waters, &c.
Date: 1663- Books
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The amusing instructor; or, a key to the Italian classics: containing a select collection of remarkable sayings, and anecdotes, in Italian and English. ... The whole preceded by a copious and critical treatise on the pronunciation of the Italian tongue, by the editor, Antonio Montucci, ...
Date: 1793- Books
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Five curious anecdotes. To which is added, On fashions, a moral essay. By James Maxwell, Poet in Paisley.
Maxwell, James, 1720-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]