16 results filtered with: England - Social life and customs - Early works to 1800
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Dialogues sur les mœurs des Anglois, et sur les voyages Consideres comme faiasnt partie de l'education de la jeunesse. Traduits de l'anglois.
Le Blanc, Jean Bernard, 1707-1781.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England, in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, deduced from the accompts of churchwardens, and other authentic documents, Collected from Various Parts of the Kingdom, with explanatory notes.
Nichols, John, 1745-1826.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The sentimental exhibition; or, portraits and sketches of the times.
Long, Edward, 1735-1813.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A picture of England: containing a description of the laws, customs, and manners of England. ... By M. D'Archenholz, ... Translated from the French,
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: 1791- Books
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Horse and away to St. James's Park or, a Trip for the Noontide Air Who Rides Fastest, Misss Kitty Fisher, or her Gay Gallant.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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A trip from St. James's to the Royal-Exchange. With remarks serious and diverting, on the manners, customs, and amusements of the inhabitants of London and Westminster. An Account of a City Entertainment in Christmas Holidays, with lively Conversation there. Wrangle between a Barrister at Law and a Foot-Soldier on the first Day of Term. Description of an Infant-Office, for letting out Children to Beggars. Proceedings of a Society of Affidavit-Men, Watch-Takers, &c The Management of Undertakers for Funerals; with their Method of getting Intelligence. Observations on the Behaviour of Maid-Servants, and Characters of several. Cavalcade from Newgate to Tyburn, with the Behaviour of Jailors and Prisoners. Modern Conversation at Coffee-Houses and Ordinaries. Ludgate, and its Inmates describ'd. The peculiar Talent of the City-Beaus, for Disputation. On the Antiquity of Lace Russles. On Constitution-Hill, St. James's-Park, and the Company there. Remarks on News-Writers, and their Works; with a sure Method of promoting the Sale of Pamphlets. &c. &c. &c.
Date: [1744]- Books
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A picture of England: Containing a description of the laws, customs and manners of England. Containing A Description Of The Laws, Customs, And Manners Of England. Interspersed with curious and interesting Anecdotes of Present K. Denmark Prince of Wales Late E. M. Thercsa Louis XV. Duke de Choisoul Late D. of Bedford Dut. Dow. Bedford D. Northumberland Dut. of Devonshire Lord Bute Lord North Lord Mansfield Mr. Fox Mr. Pitt Lord Sandwich Admiral Koppel General Smith Lord Camdon Lord Thurlow Lord Kenyon D. of Bridgewater Lord Chatham Lord Sackville General Burgoyne Mr. Luttrell Mr. Wilkes, and several other aldermen Mr. Burke Mr. Horne Tooke Late Lord Clive Mr. Gibbon Mrs. Abington Mr. Wedgewood Chevalier D'Eon Lord Stormont Mr. Villette General Gansell Late Mr. Garrick Mr. Foote Mrs. Cornelys Mrs. Siddons Barry Woodward Weston Henderson Palmer Mr. Kelly, &c. &c. By M. D'Archenholz, Formerly a Captain in the Service of the King of Prussia. Translated from the French.
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: 1790- Books
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To the Right Honourable the Mayor and aldermen of the City of London: The Humble Petition Of the Colliers, Cooks, Cook-Maids, Black-Smiths, Jack-Makers, Brasiers, and Others, Sheweth;
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.Date: 1716]- 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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Instructions of a father to his son, under the following heads: Of the choice of friends. Of marriage. Of flatterers. Of quarrels. Rules to be observed for the preservation of an estate. Of servants. Of dress. Of riches. Of wine. Of religion. To which are added; a loving son's advice to an aged father, and select letters on interesting subjects. By Sir Walter Rawleigh.
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.Date: MDCCLIV. 1754- Books
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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 Present King of Denmark Prince of Wales Late Empless Maria Theresa Louis XV Duke de Choiseul Late Duke of Bedford Duchess Dowager of Bedford Duke of Northumberland Duchess of Devonshire Lord Bute Lord North Lord Mansfield Mr. Fox Mr. Pitt Lord Sandwich Admiral Keppel General Smith Lord Camden Lord Thurlow Lord Kenyon Duke of Bridgewater Lord Chatham Lord Sackville General Burgoyne Mr. Luttrell Mr. Wilkes, and several other Aldermen Mr. Burke Mr. Horne Tooke Late Lord Clive Mr. Gibbon Mrs. Abington Mr. Wedgewood Chevalier D'Eon Lord Stormont Mr. Villette General Mr. Late Mr. Garrick Mr. Foote Mrs. Cornellys Mrs. Siddons Barry Woodward Weston Henderson Palmer Mr. Kelly, &c. &c. &c. By M. D'Archenholz, Formerly a Captain in the Service of the King of Prussia. Translated from the French. Vol. I.
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Antiquitates culinariæ; or curious tracts relating to the culinary affairs of the old English, with a preliminary discourse, notes, and illustrations, by the Reverend Richard Warner, ...
Date: 1791- Books
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The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. By the author of Roderick Random. In two volumes.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: M DCC LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The conclusion to Bishop Burnet's history of his own time. Containing advice to the people of England.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: 1734- Books
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A treatise on the use and abuse of the second, commonly called, the steward's table, in families of the first rank. In four parts. Containing, I. An Explanation of the Misteries of that sacred Divan; with a full Account of the several Arts, Lies, and Contrivances therein used to distress, and, if possible, starve the lower Class of Servants; together with the Compliments and Enquiries that pass in the giving and receiving Characters, whether from House-Keepers, House-Stewards, or Clerks of the Stable, of the separate Servants under their Inquisition. II. An Account of their Routs, Cards, Visits, and private Pleasures; kept Mistresses by the Men, and kept Husbands, or Gallants, by the Females. III. An humble Proposal to the Nobility and Gentry, who think a Nest of these Sycophants a necessary Piece of Grandeur, to place on them certain Hieroglyphical Badges, distinguishing the several Places they fill, to prevent the Lady's Woman from being called my Lady, and the Valet from being called my Lord. IV. An Attempt to prove such an Order of People to be intirely useless, and through whose Means many of the greatest Estates have been reduced, the Credit of the Nobility and Gentry diminished, and several reputable Tradesmen ruined. Concluding, with an earnest Request to every Man of great Fortune to be his own Steward.
Coachman.Date: [1758]- 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: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]