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A picture of England: containing a description of the laws, customs, and manners of England. Interspersed with curious and interesting Anecdotes Of Many Eminent Persons. Translated from the original German of W. de Archenholtz. Formerly A Captain In The Prussian Service. A new translation.
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: 1797- Books
Sleep in early modern England / Sasha Handley.
Handley, SashaDate: [2016]- Books
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Translation of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the period of his residence in England. To which is prefixed a preliminary dissertation on the history, religion, and manners, of the Hindoos. In two volumes. By Eliza Hamilton, ...
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1758-1816.Date: 1796- Books
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A supplement to The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities, manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the English, by Joseph Strutt.
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The tricks of the town laid open: or, a companion for country gentlemen: being the substance of seventeen letters from a gentleman in London to his friend in the country, to dissuade him from coming to town. Wherein is contain'd, The Humorous Frauds, Tricks, and Cheats of Tennis-Courts, Bowling-Greens, Play-Houses, Gaming-Houses, Bawdy-Houses, Cock-Matches, Horse-Races, Foot-Matches, &c. With the Characters of a Beau, Gamester, Bully, Setter, Spunger, and a Sot. Also, General Reflections on the Manners and Humours of the Town, with a Description of the present State of it.
Gentleman at London, active 1746.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The tricks of the town laid open: or, a companion for country gentlemen. Being the substance of seventeen letters from a gentleman at London to his friend in the country, to disswade him from coming to town. I. The Country Gentleman is caution'd against coming to London, and his Mistake shew'd with regard to his City Conversation. II. The Pleasures of a Country Life are vindicated, and afferted to be preferable to that of a Town one. III. The Country has the same Opportunities of improving our Knowledge as the Town. IV. A General Reflection on the Manners and Humours of the Town, with a Description of the present State of it V. A Disswasive against Idleness, with the Character of a Sot. VI. The Characters of a Beau and a Gamester. Vii. The Humours, Customs and Tricks of the Playhouse, are discover'd and expos'd. Viii. A Continuation of the Humours of the Playhouse, with Observations on their Constitution, and Manner of Government. IX. The Humours, Tricks and Cheats of the Tennis-Courts are expos'd and detected. X. The Tricks and Cheats of Bowling-Greens are discover'd, with an Account of their Methods of Betting, &c. XI. The Humours of the Groom-Porters, and the Cheats of Ordinaries, and other Gaming-Houses are expos'd. XII. The Tricks of Cockers and Cock-Matches, and the Cheat of Horse-Races, and Foot-Matches, are discover'd. XIII. The Villany of Money-Droppers is expos'd, and the Reguish Methods they take to impose on Countrymen. XIV. The Tricks of Bawds and Whores are detected, with a Description of a Bawdy-House and the Art of Trapping. XV. The Characters of a Bully, Setter and Spunger. XVI. Particular Observations and Reflections upon several distinct Occurrences of the Town. XVII. The Country Gentleman is directed in the Disposal of his Estate in his Absence, and in the Management of himself in London.
Gentleman at London, active 1746.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The regulations and establishment of the houshold of Henry Algernon Percy, the fifth Earl of Northumberland, at his castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire. Begun Anno Domini M.D.XII.
Date: 1770- Books
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Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar letters, domestick and foreign. Divided into four books; partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions. By James Howell, ...
Howell, James, 1594?-1666.Date: 1713- Books
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Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho' an Hundred Years ago) compos'd; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long Time by in a Corner, and now at last made public. Together with Bessy Bell. Illustrated with several Neat Copper-Plates.
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Barnaby's journal, under the names of Mirtilus and Faustulus shadow'd: for the traveller's solace lately publish'd, to most apt numbers reduc'd, and to the old tune of Barnaby commonly chanted. By Corymbæus.
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.Date: 1774- Books
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A satyr on the times: and some of the modern plays, viz. Beggars Opera, Timoleon, Humours of Oxford, Cheshire comicks, &c. By John Loyd, ...
Lloyd, John, Rector of Gilden Sutton.Date: 1730- Books
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An inquiry into the manners, taste, and amusements, of the two last centuries, in England. By John Andrews, LL.D.
Andrews, John, 1736-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: familiar letters domestick and foreign, divided into four books; partly historical, political, philosophical: upon emergent occasions. By James Howell, Esq; one of the clerks of his late Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
Howell, James, 1594?-1666.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar letters, domestick and foreign. Divided into four books. Partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions. By James Howell, Esq; One of the Clerks of His Late Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
Howell, James, 1594?-1666.Date: 1705- Books
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Letters written during a residence in England. Translated from the French of Henry Meister. Containing Many Curious Remarks Upon English Manners And Customs, Government, Climate, Literature, Theatres, &c. &c. &c. Together with a letter from the Margravine of Anspach to the author.
Meister, Jacques-Henri, 1744-1826.Date: 1799- Books
Spaces for feeling : emotions and sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850 / edited by Susan Broomhall.
Date: 2015- Books
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An essay upon publick spirit; being a satyr in Prose upon the Manners and Luxury of the times, The Chief Sources of our present Parties and Divisions. By Mr. Dennis.
Dennis, John, 1657-1734.Date: 1711- Books
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The progresses, and public processions, of Queen Elizabeth. Among which are interspersed. Other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events, during the reign of that Illustrious Princess. Now first printed from original Mss. of the times; or collected from scarce pamphlets, &c. Illustrated with historical notes, By John Nichols, F. S. A. Edinb. and Perth. ...
Nichols, John, 1745-1826.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Epistolæ Ho-elianæ: familiar letters dome'stic and foreign; divided into four books: Partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions. By James Howell, Esq; one of the clerks of his late Majesty's most Honourable Privy-council.
Howell, James, 1594?-1666.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The life and uncommon adventures of Capt. Dudley Bradstreet. Being the most genuine and extraordinary, perhaps, ever published. Containing, A full Account of his and others Amours. His being employ'd Insecret Services by the M-Stry of G-t B-n, in the late Rebellion. His M-y's Present to him, receiv'd by the Hands of Mr. S-ne. His Letters to his M-Y, and the Answers received from the K-G. The Reward he got for his Services, occasioning his Scheme of the Bottle Conjurer. His passing as a Magician in Covent-Garden, where many of high Birth and Fortune of both Sexes, and even famed for Wisdom, resorted to him, upon his promising to renew their Age, making them thirty or forty Years younger than they were, informing others when their Husbands or Wives should die. His being made Governor and Judge of the finest Seraglio in England, and his promised Feast to the City of London; Facts well known to all the Courts of Europe. With the lives of Mrs. Winnett, Mrs. Collison, Miss Churchill, &c. &c.
Date: MDCCLV. [1755]