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A trip to Holland. Containing sketches of characters: together with cursory observations on the manners and customs of the Dutch,
Becket, Andrew, 1749-1843.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A trip to Holland. Containing sketches of characters: together with cursory observations on the manners and customs of the Dutch. Vol. II.
Becket, Andrew, 1749-1843.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The picture gallery. Containing near two hundred paintings by the most distinguished ladies in Great Britain. Among which are the following Capital Pieces, The Widow Brady, - by Dowager Lady A-r. The Libertine reclaimed, - by the D-ss of C-d. The Highland Laddie, - by Lady S-h B-y. The Rake's Progress, - by Lady C-s. Baucis, - by P-ss A-a. Cymon and Iphigene, - by Duchess of D-re. The Careless Husband, - by Ditto. Lady Brute, - by Lady F-l-. The Dust Cart, - by Ditto. Jobson and Nell, - by Duchess of G-r. Old Margaret, - by Mrs. Gr-h-m, late Mrs. Mac-y. The Sweepstakes, - by Dowager D-ss of A-r. An old Woman cloathed in Gray, - by Lady G-ch. Venus making Love, - by the Honorable Mrs. H-b-t. Lavinia bathing, - by Miss H-m. Jephtha's Daughter bewailing her Virginity, by Countess of J-y. Lady Godina riding through Coventry, by Quondam Lady L-r. Bess of Bedlam, - by Lady N-th. An English Seraglio, - by the Countess of O-y. Pandora's Box, - by Lady R-s. Diana Trapes, - by Lady John S-Lle. Robinetta, - by Dowager C-ss of B-m-re. Saint Austin out of his Wits, - by Mrs. W-b-t-n. Desdemona, - by Lady T-d. The Torch of Hymen, - by C-ss of B-l. Gammar Gurton's Needle, - by Dowager Lady T-d, &c. &c. &c. To which are added, critical strictures upon each piece.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Observations on the manners, government, and policy of the Greeks. Translated from the French of the learned Abbé Mably. With notes and illustrations by Mr. Chamberland.
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An epistle from the bottle conjurors to the Gothamites; Containing The Eighth Chapter of the Acts of the Seducers, Sharpers and Conjurors in three Parts. Part the First, Wherein the Conjuror proposes to form a new World from a Magick Egg to perform many wonderful things, and to jump into a Quart Bottle. Part the Second. A full and true account of the Tragi-Comical Farce, as it was acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, on Monday the 16th of January, 1748-9. Part the Third. Harlequin's Epistle to the People of the two great Cities, and his Escape by Virtue of a Funnel from a Quart Bottle, as it is acted at the Theatre in Covent-Garden. Miscellany Poems, on Gothamites, Almanacks, Writers, Fortune-Tellers, Courtiers, Priests, Quacks, Lawyers, Gamesters, Sharpers; in Hudibrastick verse. The Coach - maker's Wedding. A Song. On St. Stephen's Martyrdom, the 27th of December, being Maria's Birth-Day. Bob's Birth-Day, a Tale. Printed from the Manuscript of Signore Dolocio Ufrontorio, Son to the Wonder Working Chymist, lately Deceas'd in Alsatia.
Ufrontorio, Dolorio.Date: [1749]