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eBooks An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospel: whether they be Deists, Arians, Socinians, or nominal Christians, in which the true grounds and reasons of the whole Christian faith and life are plainly and fully demonstrated, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3125
eBooks The case of the surgeons of London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5691
eBooks An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: comprising figures and descriptions ... By E. Donovan, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4864
eBooks The sea wolf https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3045
eBooks A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners. Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1776. By Sir John Pringle, Baronet, President. Published by their order https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5594
eBooks A new theory of continual fevers: Wherein, besides the appearances of such fevers, and the method of their cure; occasionally, the structure of the glands, ... are mechanically explan'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4305
eBooks Oroonoko: or the royal slave. A tragedy. Altered from Southerne, by Francis Gentleman. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4113
eBooks Who's the dupe?: A farce: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3531
eBooks Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4071
eBooks An examination of The age of reason: or an investigation of true and fabulous theology, by Thomas Paine: by Gilbert Wakefield, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3947
eBooks The time machine https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3056
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5249
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5253
eBooks The adventures of Hugh Trevor: By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4449
eBooks Original letters: familiar, moral and critical. By Mr. Dennis. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5197
eBooks Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3721
eBooks A collection of letters, never before printed: written by Alexander Pope, Esq; and other ingenious gentlemen, to the late Aaron Hill, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3663
eBooks An essay concerning the nature of aliments: and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. ... By John Arbuthnot, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5174
eBooks The dramatic censor: or, critical companion. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4947
eBooks Moral tales in verse: founded on real events. Written by Thomas Hull, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4753
eBooks The wonderful wizard of Oz https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3231
eBooks The tenant of Wildfell Hall https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3073
eBooks Edwin and Angelina: A ballad. By Mr. Goldsmith. Printed for the amusement of the Countess of Northumberland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3516
eBooks The cobler: or, a wife of ten thousand. A ballad opera. In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4689
eBooks [Shakespeare: an epistle to Mr. Garrick; with an ode to genius.] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4175
eBooks Agnes Grey https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3072
eBooks A political romance: addressed to - -, Esq. of York. To which is subjoined a key ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3410
eBooks The Gotham election: a farce. By Mrs. Centlivre. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3864
eBooks A lick at a liar: or, calumny detected. Being an occasional letter to a friend from Theophilus Cibber, comedian https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4060
eBooks Poems on several occasions: By Stephen Duck. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4741
eBooks A declaration of the people's natural right to a share in the legislature: which is the fundamental principle of the British constitution of state. By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3908
eBooks Troilus & Criseyde https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3202
eBooks A letter from Mr. Congreve to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5295
eBooks Poems; ludicrous, satirical and moral https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4658
eBooks The ghost: By C. Churchill. Book III.Ghost. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4057
eBooks The fair American: a comic opera, in three acts; as it is performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Written by F. Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3972
eBooks A letter to the people of Scotland, on the alarming attempt to infringe the Articles of the Union, and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of session. By James Boswell, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3556
eBooks Horæ Paulinæ: or the truth of the scripture history of St. Paul evinced, ... By William Paley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4654
eBooks The history of the Norfolk steward continued: In two parts. Part I. Containing an account of Mr. Lyn's private character, ... Part II. Containing some farther account of Mr. Lyn's management, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3324
eBooks An account of the extraordinary medicinal fluid, called æther: By M. Turner, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5674
eBooks The northern-star: A poem. Written by Mr. Hill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3468
eBooks The town before you, a comedy: as acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4229
eBooks A sequel to Common sense: or, the American controversy considered in two points of view hitherto unnoticed. ... By Theophilus Philadelphus. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4168
eBooks The deserter. A new musical drama: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5456
eBooks A succinct account of a machine, newly invented for the cure of præternatural curvatures of the spine: together with a detail of several cases, in which this machine has been tried with great success. By D. Merande, M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5577
eBooks Tales of the Trade https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3304
eBooks An essay upon buying and selling of speeches. In a letter to a worshipfull Justice of the Peace, being also a member of a certain worshipfull society of speech-makers https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4330
eBooks British zoology: ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5393
eBooks Cranford https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3096
eBooks Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorit... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4839