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Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
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A practical essay on the venereal disease. To which are subjoined observations on the causes and cure of tabes dorsalis. By J. Smyth, M.D.
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton).Date: 1798- Books
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Essays on different subjects. By Thomas Barnardiston, serjeant at law.
Barnardiston, Thomas, 1706-1752.Date: [1740?]- Books
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Essays, political, economical, and philosophical. By Benjamin count of Rumford, knight of the orders of the White Eagle, and St. Stanislaus; chamberlain, privy counsellor of state, and lieutenant-general in the service of his most serene highness the elector Palatine, reigning Duke of Bavaria; colonel of his regiment of Artillery, and commander in chief of the general staff of his army; F.R.S. Acad. R. Hiber. Berol. elec. Boicœ. palat. et amer. soc.
Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814.Date: 1797- Books
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The Polite preceptor: or, A collection of entertaining and instructive essays; Selected from the best English writers, and arranged in the most natural order; with a view to inspire into the minds of youth the love of virtue, and the principles of true taste and just reasoning.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Essays upon several subjects: Or, Effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation. Wherein are plainly laid down, the means by which the subjects in general may be eased and enriched; the poor relieved, and trade encreased in the most material branches of it, viz. in constituting seamen to theirs and the nations advantage, for encouragement of merchants and merchandizing; for relief of the poor of friendly societies; for discouraging vice, and encouraging vertue; the usefulness; of banks and assurances; to prevent bankrupts; with the surest way to recover bad debts; and many other considerable things, profitable and conducing to the great advantage of the nation in general.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1702- Books
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Melody - the soul of music: an essay towards the improvement of the musical art: with an appendix, containing account of an invention.
Date: 1798- Books
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Essays on various subjects. To which are added reflections on the seven days of the week. By Mrs. Talbot.
Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Essays Concerning I. Excommunications in times of popery. II. Canon-laws and ecclesiastical tyranny. III. Excommunications in these times. IV. The Writ de excommunicato capiendo. V. Sacrilege, consecrating churches, and baptizing bells. VI. Absolutions and excommunications, as meer politick tools, and belonging to the regale, not pontificale. VII. Probate of wills and administrations, and spiritual courts. By Edmund Hickeringill, rector of all-saints in Colchester.
Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.Date: [1706?]- Books
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Essays on different subjects. Part II. By Thomas Barnardiston, serjeant at law.
Barnardiston, Thomas, 1706-1752.Date: [1745?]- Books
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The humourist: Being essays upon several subjects, viz. news-writers. Enthusiasm. The spleen. Country entertainment. Love. The history of Miss Manage. Ambition and pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and apparitions. The weather. Female disguises. The art of modern conversation. The use of speech. The punishment of staying at home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the ten commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The abuse of words. Credulity. Eating. The love of power. The expedients to get rid of time. Retirement. The story of will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon. By the author of the Apology for parson Alberoni; the dedication to a great man concerning dedications, &c.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: 1720- Books
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Essays. Part II. Concerning I. Ordinations and the indelible character. II. Heresy, symony, ordinations, and the indelible character more largely. III. Universities, general councils, synods, convocations, the fathers, and school-divinity. IV. Visitations, and canonical obedience. V. Blasphemy. And in the conclusion, of High-Church, whether tis built on Right-Divine, or rather on humane-right (forsooth!) perhaps on neither. By Edmund Hickeringill, rector of all-saints in Colchester.
Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.Date: [1706?]- Books
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Essays on various subjects. By the author of reflections on the seven days of the week. Vol. I.
Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The polite companion: containing essays on various subjects; illustrated with passages from the most excellent poets, orators, philosophers, and historians.
Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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A dissertation on the errors of marksmen and gunmakers, and a tract upon the art of shooting flying with an essay On pointers and flushers, and remarks Upon riffle guns and Methods of Shooting with them. By that most able Park and Game-Keeper and famous Marksman, Mr. Lemon.
Lemon, Mr., active 1782.Date: [1782]- Books
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Medical cautions; chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases The dangerous Effects of Hot and Crouded Rooms. An Enquiry into the Use of Medicine during a Course of Mineral Waters. On Quacks, Quack Medicines, and Lady Doctors. And An Essay on Regimen, very much enlarged. The second edition. To which are now added, Appendix I. Containing farther Animadversions on a celebrated Quack Medicine, and Remarks on the Medical Powers and Use of the Dulcified Acids. Appendix II. An Essay on Therapeutics. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Medical essays. By John Armstrong, M.D. physician to His Majesty's Army.
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Essays and treatises on several subjects. By David Hume, Esq; Vol. IV. Containing Political discourses.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Some farther considerations concerning alkaly and acid, by way of appendix to a late essay : Wherein the terms are made clear, and the natures of them both more fully explained: together with an answer to the objections that have been raised against some things contained in the said essay. By John Colbatch, physician.
Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729Date: 1696- Books
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Medical cautions, for the consideration of invalids; those especially who resort to Bath: containing essays on fashionable diseases; dangerous effects of hot and crowded rooms; regimen of diet, &c. An Enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters; an Essay on Quacks, Quack Medicines, and lady doctors; and an appendix, containing a table of the relative digestibility of foods, with explanatory observations. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Four pleasant epistles, written for the entertainment and gratification of four unpleasant characters, Viz. A very exalted Subject in his Majesty's Dominions; The most unpatriotic Man alive!! The most artful Man alive!! And Second Childhood. By Albion.
Albion.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An essay on schism. With several discourses contrary to the Methodists-Doctrine. By Mary Hill, of Sarum.
Hill, Mary.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Thoughts on amputation. Being a supplement to the letters on compound fractures, and a comment on Dr. Bilguer's book on this operation. To which is added A short essay on the use of opium in mortifications. By Thomas Kirkland, M.D. Member of the Medical Society at Edinburgh.
Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Two essays, one on coversation, the other, on solitude. By a Gentleman of Oxford.
Gentleman of Oxford.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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Essays upon several subjects of literature and morality. Particularly upon the manner of writing in single thoughts. Of conversation. Of the different talents of writing and speaking. Of the qualities necessary for society. Of Criticism upon works of wit. Of the effects of habit. Of self-love and of modesty. Of simplicity, and the different kinds of modesty. Of the necessity of following one' s genius. Of prepossession, and its effects. Of good-humour. Of judgment and genius. Of happiness. Of reading and memory. Of nobility. The distinction between pride and vanity. Of politeness. Of the natural. Of parts. Of regard to human judgement. Of infidelity. Of riches. With reflections upon taste; and many other curious topicks. Translated from the French of the Abbot trublet.
Trublet, Nicolas-Charles-Joseph, 1697-1770.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]