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Remarks upon education, with respect to the learned languages: shewing their importance to good literature, and a due cultivation of the human understanding. By the Rev. William Duke. Copy-right secured.
Duke, William, 1757-1840.
Date
M.DCC.XCV. [1795]
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A sermon, preached in Christ Church and St. Peter's, Philadelphia: on Wednesday, May 9, 1798. Being the day appointed by the president, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, throughout the United States of North America. By James Abercrombie, A.M. one of the Assistant Ministers of Christ-Church and St. Peter's. Published by request.
Abercrombie, James, 1758-1841.
Date
[1798]
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The Ground and nature of Christian redemption. [One line from John]
Ormrod, John
Date
1800
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Visit for a week, or, Hints on the improvement of time. Containing, original tales, entertaining stories, interesting anecdotes, and sketches from natural and moral history. To which is added, a poetical appendix, designed for the amusement of youth. [Four lines from Voltaire] Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Peacock, Lucy, active 1786-1815.
Date
1796
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Two letters addressed to a member of the present Parliament, on the proposals for peace with the regicide Directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Date
1797
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Oration on the sublime virtues of General George Washington, pronounced at the Old South Meeting-House in Boston, before His Honor the lieutenant-governor, the Council, and the two branches of the legislature of Massachusetts, at their request, on Saturday, the 8th of February, 1800. By Fisher Ames.
Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808.
Date
1800
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A funeral oration, on the death of General Washington, delivered in the German Lutheran Church, Philadelphia: at the request of Congress, on the twenty-sixth of December, 1799. By Major General Lee.
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818.
Date
1800
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A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble Lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford, and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of Parliament.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Date
[1796]
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Remarks on education: illustrating the close connection between virtue and wisdom. To which is annexed, a system of liberal education. Which, having received the premium awarded by the American Philosophical Society, December 15th, 1797, is now published by their order. By Samuel Harrison Smith, A.M. member of the Am. Phil. Society.
Smith, Samuel Harrison, 1772-1845.
Date
M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]
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The life of God in the soul of man, or, the nature and excellency of the Christian religion, by Henry Scougal, late professor of divinity in the University of Aberdeen. To which is subjoined, Rules for a holy life, by Archbishop Leighton.
Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678.
Date
1795
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