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News from the stars: or, an ephemeris for the year 1701. With Observations upon the Eclipses, Solar Ingresses and Configurations of Heaven happening therein. Being the first since the Bissextile, or Leap Year, according to the Julian, or Old Account. And from the Creation of the World, according to the best of History, 5650 years. Wherein You have an Account of many things about the Heavenly Bodies, and their Portents in the same Year. By William Andrews, Student in Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.Date: 1701- Books
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Apollo Anglicanus, the English apollo, ... by Richard Saunder, ...
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675.Date: 1701- Books
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Apollo Anglicanus : the English apollo, assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come. With necessary tables, plain and useful. A twofold kalendar, viz. Julian or English, Gregorian or Forain computations, more plain and full than any other; with the rising and setting of the sun, the nightly rising and setting of the moon, and also her southing, exactly calculated for every day. ... To which is added the moons application to the fixed stars: ;with the caculation of the eclipses: also rules and tables for the measuring of timber: with many other things both pleasant, useful and necessary. ... By Richard Saunder, student in the physical and mathematical sciences.
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675Date: 1700- Books
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The necessity of perseverance in well-doing; a sermon preached before the governors of the Worcester Infirmary, on the 18th of October, 1748, being the festival of St. Luke. By the Right Reverend Isaac, Lord Bishop of Worcester. ...
Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759.Date: [1748]- Books
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1. Catonis disticha de moribus. 2. Dicta insignia septem sapientum Græciæ. 3. Mimi Publiani, sive, Senecæ proverbia, anglo-latina. Cato item grammatice interpretatus Latinis & vernaculis vocibus pari ordine, sed diversis lineis alternatis. Quo se aetatula Pueriles Praecepta vitae communis ita legant ut intelligant. A Carolo Hoolo, A. M. Privatae Scholae Grammaticae Institutore in ... viciculo apud Londinates. = I. Cato's distichs concerning manners. 2. Excellent Sayings of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. 3. Publius's Stage Verses, or Seneca's Proverbs in Latin and English. Likewise Cato Construed Grammatically, with one row Latin, and another English. Whereby little Children may Understandingly learn the Rules of Common Behaviour By Charles Hool, Master of Arts, and Teacher of a private Grammar School in Goldsmiths-Alley, London.
Date: 1708- Books
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The great and important duty of training up children, set forth and recommended In a sermon preach'd in the Parish Church of Lugwardine near Hereford, on Sunday March 1, 1752. By H. Whishaw, A.M. vicar of the parish, and canon residentiary of Hereford. Now published for the use of his parishioners.
Whishaw, Humphrey, 1702-1780.Date: 1755- Books
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The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary: or, the complete builder's guide. Containing An Explanation of all the Terms of Art used by Workmen; as also what is necessary to be known in the Art of Building, as well by Gentlemen, as Artificers of Every Denomination. In the following Useful Particulars, viz. The Qualities, Quantities, Proportions, and Value of all Materials used in Building. The best Method of preparing those Materials. The Methods of Measuring most Sorts of Artificers Work. The City and Country Prices of Workmanship. Aphorisms, or Rules necessary to be observed in Building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, Form, &c. Estimates of the Expence of Building any Fabrick, great or small. Rules for the Valuation of Houses. Rules to be observed in Repairs, &c. The Propagation and Culture of such Trees, as are used in Building, and planted as well for Ornament as Profit, with the Soils and Management proper for each Species; and Rules for their Measuring, Felling, Sawing, &c. A brief and clear Description of the various Parts of Painting and Sculpture, and the several Arts depending on them. Including briefly the Theory and Practice of Architecture, in its different Branches. Very useful to Gentlemen, to Work-Masters and Work-Men, in the making of Bargains, Contracts or Computations, relating to any Part of Building, &c. Originally written and compiled by Richard Neve, Philomath.
Neve, Richard.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse: with his remains. In four volumes compleat. With the life and character of Mr. Brown, and his writings, by James Drake, M.D. and a key to the whole. The ninth edition, carefully corrected. Adorned with a new set of copper-plates.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv'd five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most Remarkable Transactions of Europe: And, Discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of That of France) Continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682. Written, originally, in Arabick. Translated into Italian, from thence into English: And Now Published with a Large Historical Preface and Index, to Illustrate the Whole. By the Translator of the First Volume.
Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv'd five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris: Giving an impartial account to the divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and, discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written, originally, in Arabick. Translated into Italian, from thence into English: and now published with a large historical preface and index, to illustrate the whole. By the Translator of the first volume.
Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The knowledge of things unknown: shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations. With the strange events that befall men, women and children, born under them. Together with the Husbandman's Practice: Or, Prognostication for ever; as teach Albert, Alkind, and Ptolomy. With the Shepherd's Prognostication for the Weather, and Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune.
Godfridus.Date: M.DCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The pleasures of matrimony, intermixed with a variety of merry and delightful stories. Containing the charms and contentments of wooing and wedlock, in all its enjoyments, recreations, and divertisements.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Swords into anchors. A comedy. Written by the Author of the Beau Merchant.
Blanch, John, 1649 or 1650-Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick. Being a collection of the following particulars for that purpose; Viz. I. The Manner of Visiting the Sick; extracted chiefly from Bishop Taylor. II. The Order for Visitation of the Sick out of the Common-Prayer Book. III. The Communion of the Sick. IV. Some other Prayers and Forms, with a very great Variety of Occasional Prayers for the Sick: Collected, for the most part, from the devotional Writings of some of the most eminent Divines of the Church of England. To which are annexed, the offices of publick and private baptism.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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Music a rational assistant is the duty of praise when writed with charity. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral-Church of Hereford September 15, 1756, at the annual meeting of the three choirs of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester. By Digby Cotes, M.A. rector of door, and chaplain to the right reverend the lord bishop of Bangor.
Cotes, Digby, 1717 or 1718-1793.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv'd five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable Transactions of Europe: And discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English. And now Published with a Large Historical Preface and Index to Illustrate the Whole. By the Translator of the First Volume.
Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.Date: M.D.CC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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Letters writ by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English, and now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole, by the transtator of the first volume. In eight volumes.
Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.Date: M DCC LXX. [1770]- Books
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A dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English; containing all things necessary for the translating of either language into the other. To which End Many Things that were Erroneous, are Rectified, many Superfluities Retrenched, and very many Defects Supplied. and All suited to the meanest Capacities, in a plainer Method than heretofore: Being for Ease reduced into an Alphabetical Order, and Explained in the Mother-Tongue. and Towards the Compleating the English Part (which hath been long desired) here are added Thousands of Words, Phrases, Proverbs, Proper Names, and many other useful Things mentioned in the Preface to the Work. The seventeenth edition, with large additions. By Elisha Coles, Late of Magdalen-College, Oxon.
Coles, Elisha, 1640?-1680.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
An attempt to isolate Trypanosoma rhodesiense from wild animals / M.T. Ashcroft.
Ashcroft, M. T.Date: 1958?]- Books
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La flore des insectophiles, précédée d'un discours sur l'utilité des insectes et de létude de l'insectologie / Par Jaques Brez.
Brez, Jacques, 1771-1798.Date: 1791- Books
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Vivitur ingenio: being a collection of elegant, moral, satirical, and comical thoughts, on various subjects: AS, Love and Gallantry, Poetry and Politicks, Religion and History, &c. Written originally in characters of chalk, on the boards of the Mall in St. James's Park; for the Edification of the Nobility, Quality, and Gentry. By a wild man, who stiles himself secretary to the wilderness there; and is the reputed Father of Peter the Wild Boy, lately brought from Hanover.
Wild man.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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Dissertation physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les différences réelles que présentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de différents pays et de différents âges, sur le beau qui caractèrise les statues antiques et les pierres gravées : suivie de la proposition d'une nouvelle méthode pour déssiner toutes sortes de têtes humaines avec la plus grande sûreté / publiée après le décès de l'auteur par son fils Adrien Gilles Camper ; traduite du hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval.
Date: MDCCXCI [1791]- Books
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Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects. By William Stukeley, M. D. Rector of St. George, Queen-Square.
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Pictures
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A wild boar is attacked by seven dogs during a hunt. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39344i- Books
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Spirits of the corn and of the wild / by J.G. Frazer.
Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.Date: 1912