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eBooks A letter to **** *******, Esquire, on Buonaparte's proposals for opening a negotiation for peace: ... By J. Brand, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5427
eBooks Britannia. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4845
eBooks Shakespeare's garland: Being a collection of new songs, ballads, roundelays, catches, glees, comic-serenatas, &c. Performed at the jubille [sic] at Sratford [sic] upon Avon. The musick by Dr. Arne, Mr. Barthelimon, Mr. Ailwood, and Mr. Dibdin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4176
eBooks A brief description of Orkney: Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5298
eBooks The first epistle of the second book of Horace, imitated https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3678
eBooks The Smith Administration https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3298
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5334
eBooks Historical law-tracts.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4456
eBooks The power of gold displayed: in the humane proposal of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to bring forward an act to put His Majesty into the disagreeable situation of signing a decree, that no sick or lame person, or diseas... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5571
eBooks The botanic garden: a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4671
eBooks The poetical calendar: Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry: ... by the most eminent hands. Intended as a supplement to Mr. Dodsley's collection. Written and selected by Francis Fawkes, M. A. and William Woty. In twelve ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5359
eBooks The woodman: a comic opera, in three acts; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with universal applause. By Mr. Bate Dudley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4272
eBooks The fall of Egypt; an oratorio. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane. Written by the late John Hawkesworth LL.D. and set to musick by John Stanley https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3973
eBooks Madrigal and Trulletta. A mock-tragedy: Acted (under the direction of Mr. Cibber) at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. With notes by the author, and Dr. Humbug, ... By J. Reed. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4631
eBooks The Intelligencer https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3029
eBooks The great law of subordination consider'd: or, the insolence and unsufferable behaviour of servants in England duly enquir'd into. ... In ten familiar letters. ... As also a proposal, containing such heads or constitutions, as wou'd effectually an... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4510
eBooks Serino: or, the character of a fine gentleman: with reference to rerigion [sic], learning, and the conduct of life. ... Written by Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5278
eBooks The mirror: or, harlequin every-where. A pantomimical burletta, in three parts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3606
eBooks Almoran and Hamet: an oriental tale. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4476
eBooks An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington: Occasion'd by his publishing Palladio's designs of the baths, arches, theatres, &c. of ancient Rome. By Mr. Pope.Of false taste https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3689
eBooks Mechanick exercises: or the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the arts of smithing joinery carpentry turning bricklayery. To which is added Mechanick dyalling: ... The third edition. By Joseph Moxon, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5201
eBooks The candidate: by Mr. Gray. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5025
eBooks An essay on regimen: Together with five discourses, medical, moral, and philosophical: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicin, ... By Geo. Cheyne, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4645
eBooks The country election; a farce: in two acts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3955
eBooks Ramah Droog: a comic opera, in three acts. As performed with universal applause at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By James Cobb, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4147
eBooks Cynthia's revels https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3252
eBooks Poems, by Hugh Downman, M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4763
eBooks John the shopkeeper turned sailor; or, the folly of going out of our element. ... Part IIShopkeeper turned sailor. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5387
eBooks The alteration of the constitution of the House of Commons, and the inequality of the land-tax, considered conjointly. By J. [sic] Brand, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4838
eBooks A sermon preached at the Parish-church of St. Anne, Westminster: on Thursday, May the 10th, 1758. before the governors of the Middlesex-Hospital, ... By Thomas Francklin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4861
eBooks The habitable world described: or the present state of the people in all parts of the globe, from north to south; shewing the situation, extent, climate, ... including all the new discoveries: ... With a great variety of maps and copper-plates, ..... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5048
eBooks Paine, Dundas, and Onslow. A letter to Mr. Henry Dundas: ... in answer to his speech on the late excellent proclamation. Also two letters to Lord Onslow, ... By Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5490
eBooks A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4366
eBooks A treatise on the social compact: or the principles of politic law. By J. J. Rousseau, ...Du contrat social. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5205
eBooks The heart of John Middleton https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3106
eBooks The son-in-law: a comic opera: as it is acted at the Theatres Royal in London and Dublin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5403
eBooks The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5706
eBooks The impertinent: or a visit to the court. A satyr. By an eminent hand. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3683
eBooks The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland: to the time of Dean Swift. Compiled from ample materials scattered in a variety of books, ... by Mr. Cibber. In four volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4677
eBooks Zingis. A tragedy: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Alexander Dow. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4252
eBooks Of the torments of Hell: the foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4417
eBooks The case of the apothecaries https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5572
eBooks A vindication of the British Colonies: against the aspersions of the Halifax gentleman, in his letter to a Rhode Island friend https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3178
eBooks An account of a new poor-house: erected in the parish of Boldre, in New Forest, near Lymington, 1796. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4961
eBooks An explanatory defence of the Estimate of the manners and principles of the times: Being an appendix to that work, ... Written by the author of the Estimate, in a series of letters to a noble friend. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3949
eBooks The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of YORKE. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5698
eBooks Moral tales in verse: founded on real events. Written by Thomas Hull, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4752
eBooks The arte of rhetorique: for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3153
eBooks Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution. Second edition. By Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3720
eBooks A tour in Wales. MDCCLXX: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5178