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The key. As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The labyrinth: Being an exercise for wit and humour, by rational rebusses. All which are entirely new, propriety being observed in the sense, spelling, and sound. By Jonathan Puzzle, Esq;
Puzzle, Jonathan.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A curious letter, from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: 1775?]- Books
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The Whet-stone: Or The spawn of the puzzle. Being a fresh collection of conundrums, never before published.
Date: In the year MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The whet-Stone: or the spawn of puzzle. Being a fresh collection of conundrums, never before publish'd.
Date: [1745]- Books
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The Whetstone or, Spawn of puzzles. Being a froth collection of conumdrums. Fit for the use of the gay and polite.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The Whetstone; Or, Spawn of puzzles. Being a fresh collection of witty questions and answers, for the improvement of conversations. Part the second.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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Aiden's prize, or, The batchelor's puzzle. Being miscellany of theological and philosophical queries, proposed to all the ingenious married men and batchelors in the Kindom of England. Mrs. Anne Ward, a beautiful young lady of five hundred pounds a year. who vows never to marry any man but him who resolves the following questions. And likewise promised the ingenious married man an hundred guineas for his trouble.
Ward, Ann, -1770.Date: [1750?]- Books
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The wheel of fortune: a comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. By Richard Cumberland, Esq.
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.Date: 1795- Books
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Delights for young men and maids: or, the best book of riddles ever yet publish'd. ... To which is added, some maggots and whimsies to puzzle lovers; ... As also Cupid's cabinet open'd; or, the art of writing secret love-letters.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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Delights for young men and maids. Containing I. Near an hundred riddles, with pictures and a key to each. II. Two true-lover's knots. ...
Date: [1725?]- Books
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The maiden's prize; or batchelor's puzzle; being a miscellany of theological and philosophical queries. Proposed to all the ingenious married men and batchelors ... by Mrs. Ann Ward, ...
Ward, Ann, -1770.Date: [1770?]- Books
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The mathematical magazine: and philosophical repository. ... By Mess. G. Witchell, T. Moss, &c.
Date: MDCCCLXI [1761-- Books
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Dunton's wit's exercise: or, delightful companion. Being a tractate, Wherein is made Plain and Easie many Niceties, Difficulties, Curiosities, Stories, Questions, Allegories, Stratagems, Mechanies, Experiments, Subtilties, Comedies, Secresies, and Sports, &c. in Morality. Being the thirty years compilement of A.D. Such a book which was never before printed.
A. D. (Andrew Dunton).Date: 1705- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Miscellaneæ curiosæ: or, Entertainments for the ingenious of both sexes. For the months of ...
Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]-1735- Books
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Pus-mantia the mag-astro-mancer, or, The magicall-astrologicall-diviner posed, and puzzled / by John Gaule.
Gaule, John, 1604?-1687Date: 1652- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The statesman's court puzzle; being a choice collection of conundrums.
Date: [1745]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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The nutt's crack'd: being an answer to the puzzle: or a choice collection of conundrums.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The Stockton bee: or, Monthly miscellany.
Date: [1793-1795]- Books
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The nuts crack'd; being an answer to the Court puzzle: or a choice collection of conundrums.
Date: 1745