19 results filtered with: Folsom, John West, 1758-1825
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John W. Folsom's catalogue of books for sale and circulation, consisting of a large assortment of all the principal authors ...
Folsom, John West, 1758-1825.Date: 1794?]- Books
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The complete letter-writer. Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also, a variety of elegant letters for the direction and embellishment of style. On business, duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, & other subjects. With directions for writing letters, and the proper forms of address. To which is added, forms of message cards.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil. In six letters to --. To which is added, a preface, and some explanatory notes. By Soame Jenyns.
Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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Government the pillar of the earth. A sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, before His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; captain general and commander in chief, &c. August 13th 1730. By Benjamin Colman. [Two lines from Isaiah]
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1730- Books
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The beauties of Sterne; including all his pathetick tales, and most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the heart of sensibility. [Six lines from Sterne's Sentimental journey]
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.Date: M.DCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The beauties of Sterne; including all his pathetick tales, and most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the heart of sensibility. [Six lines from Sterne's Sentimental journey]
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The three woe trumpets; of which the first and second are already past; and the third is now begun; under which the seven vials of the wrath of God are to be poured out upon the world. Being the substance of two discourses, from Rev. xi. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Delivered in London, on February 3, and 24, 1793. By Elhanan Winchester.
Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797.Date: 1794- Books
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The substance of a thanksgiving sermon, delivered at the Universal Meeting-House, in Boston, February 19, 1795. Published at the request of the hearers. By John Murray, Minister of the First Universal Church in Boston. [Four lines from Psalms]
Murray, John, 1741-1815.Date: 1795- Books
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The ready reckoner; or Trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from half a farthing to twenty shilling, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value or any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning,[.]
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The epistle to the Ephesians, containing the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Designed for the use of children, as their catechism. [One line from Isaiah]
Date: 1796- Books
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The ready reckoner, or, The trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail. Shewing, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from half a farthing to 20s. either by the long or short hundred, half hundred, or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c.--In so plain and easy a manner, that a person, quite unacquainted with arithmetick, may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever.--To the most read in figures it will be equally useful, by casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1794]- Books
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Gaffer Goose['s] golden plaything; being a new collection of entertaining fables. Intended as a present for all those good girls and boys who behave according to the following rules: that is, do as they are bid, come when they are called, and shut the door after them.
Date: 1798- Books
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New travels to the westward, or, unknown parts of America. Being a tour of almost fouteeen [sic] months. Containing, an account of the country, upwards of two thousand miles west of the Christian parts of North-America; with an account of white Indians, their manners, habits, and many other particulars. By Don Alonso Decalves. Confirmed by three other persons.
Decalves, Alonso.Date: [1788]- Books
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Ministers and people under special obligations to sanctity, humility & gratitude; for the great grace given them in the preached Gospel. A sermon on a day of prayer, kept by the North Church in Boston on Tuesday January 25. 1731/2. To implore the Divine direction in their election of another pastor. By Benjamin Colman, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Four lines from Galatians]
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: M,DCC,XXXII. [1732]- Books
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A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity, from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778: containing his voyages and travels ... Interspersed with some political observations. Written by himself, and now published for the information of the curious in all nations. [Two lines from Franeau's [i.e., Freneau's] American independence]
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The judgments of Providence in the hand of Christ: his voice to us in the terrible earthquake. And the earth devoured by the curse. In four sermons. By Benjamin Colman. [Four lines from Isaiah]
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1727- Books
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The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts, free from those troublesome divisons, called Aliquot parts. Shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals. II. Likewise stair cases ... shewing their most convenient situation, and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner: with a great variety of curious ornaments, whereby any gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being examples of all kinds; and necessary directions for such persons as are unacquainted with that branch. III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste. V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry; with the manner of trussed roofs, and the nature of a splayed circular soffit, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described. The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates. By Abraham Swan, architect.
Swan, Abraham.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The singing master's assistant, or Key to practical music. Being an abridgement from The New-England psalm-singer; together with several other tunes, never before published. Composed by William Billings, author of The New-England psalm-singer. [Six lines of quotations]
Billings, William, 1746-1800.Date: [1778]