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A summary view of the rise, constitution, and present state of the charitable foundation of King Charles the Second, Commonly called, the Scots Corporation in London. With an alphabetical list of the benefactors, taken from the registers, and from the tables hung up in their hall.
Scots Hospital of King Charles II.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The world bewitch'd: or, the d-----l in the times. With a certain prophecy when 'twill mend: in a dialogue between a Londoner and a countryman.
Date: 1710]- Books
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A vision, concerning the great city in London.
Date: 1705]- Books
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A fortnights ramble through London, or a complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis with the best methods for eluding them being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son ...
Date: 1792 [1793]- Books
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A summary view of the rise, constitution, and present state of the charitable foundation of King Charles the Second, Commonly called, the Scots Corporation in London. With an alphabetical list of the benefactors, taken from the registers, and from the tables hung up in their hall.
Scots Hospital of King Charles II.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Augusta triumphans: or, the way to make London the most flourishing city in the universe. First, by establishing an university where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. By an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By forming an Academy of Sciences at Christ's-Hospital. IV. By suppressing pretended Mad-Houses, where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c. and many Widows are lock'd up for the Sake of their Jointure. V. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets. Suppressing Gaming - Tables, and Sunday Debauches. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful by preventing the immoderate Use of Geneva: With a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestable Rules for Amendment. Concluding with an effectual method to prevent street robberies; and a letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the orphan's tax. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1729]- Books
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The vices of the cities of London and Westminster. Trac'd from their original. Being an impartial detection of the true cause and source of the present growth of immorality, and the prodigious number of Thefts and Robberies daily committed in the Streets, &c. of this Metropolis. With Some rational Hints proposed for removing those Evils, restoring the Morals of the People, and securing our Persons and Properties against the Outrages of these Villains. In five letters, from a citizen of London to a Member of Parliament.
Citizen of London.Date: 1751