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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
eBooks The history of English poetry: from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century. To which are prefixed, two dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5311
eBooks Know your own mind: a comedy, performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4136
eBooks The life of John Buncle: Esq; containing various observations and reflections, made in several parts of the world, and many extraordinary relations. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5671
eBooks The hermit: To which are added, A hymn to contentment; Health, an eclogue; and A night piece, on death. By Dr. Thomas Parnell, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5480
eBooks An essay on the character of Hamlet: As performed by Mr. Henderson, at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4597
eBooks The story of Lady Juliana Harley: A novel. In letters. By Mrs. Griffith. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4447
eBooks The citizen. A farce: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Arthur Murphy, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3897
eBooks The maid of the mill. A comic opera: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. The music compiled, and the words written by the author of Love in a village. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4030
eBooks A further account of the most deplorable condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller. Since his being poison'd on the 28th of March. To be publish'd weekly https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3681
eBooks The beauties of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, selected from the writings, &c. of that extraordinary man, ... To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life, with some original anecdotes of Mr. Burke. In two volumes.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3836
eBooks The Earl of Essex: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Henry Jones. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4856
eBooks Patriotism, a mock-heroic. In five cantos https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3753
eBooks The iron chest: a play; in three acts. Written by George Colman, the younger. With a preface. First represented at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Saturday, 12th March, 1796. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4006
eBooks A discourse concerning the nature and certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of fluxions, and of prime and ultimate ratios. By Benjamin Robins, F.R.S https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5070
eBooks Mr. Ward's practice of physick, as it relates to the publick, impartially considered. In a letter to Thomas Carew, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5553
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/20.500.14106/5043
eBooks Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3022
eBooks The true-born Englishman: a satyr, answer'd, paragraph by paragraph. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4571
eBooks The journey: A fragment. By C. Churchill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3886
eBooks An inquiry into the origin of episcopacy, in a discourse preached in June, 1790. By a dignitary of the Church of England https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3767
eBooks The highlander: a poem: in six cantos. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4906
eBooks The voyages, travels and adventures, of William Owen Gwin Vaughan, Esq: With the history of his brother Jonathan Vaughan, six years a slave in Tunis. Intermix'd with the histories of Clerimont, Maria, Eleanora, and others. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4544
eBooks A proposal for putting a speedy end to the war, by ruining the commerce of the French and Spaniards: and securing our own, without any additional expence to the nation. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4912
eBooks The journey from Chester to London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5406
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5254
eBooks Letters of Marque https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3286
eBooks Arcadia; or, the shepherd's wedding: A dramatic pastoral. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The music composed by Mr. Stanley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3849
eBooks Amelia: A musical entertainment of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3604
eBooks The hospital-surgeon: or, a new, gentle, and easie way, to cure speedily all sorts of wounds, and other diseases belonging to surgery. ... In three parts. ... By Mr. Belloste, ...Chirurgien d'hopital. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5277
eBooks A poem upon the death of her late sacred majesty Queen Anne, and the most happy and most auspicious accession of his sacred majesty King George. To the imperial crowns of Great Britain, France and Ireland. ... By Mr. Dennis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4095
eBooks Mr. Sheridan's argument in the case of Daly against Magee, on a motion to discharge the defendant on common bail https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5426
eBooks The morality of Shakespeare's drama illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5119
eBooks Voyages and descriptions: vol.II. In three parts, viz. I. A supplement of the voyage round the world, ... 2. Two voyages to Campeachy; ... 3. A discourse of trade-winds, breezes, storms, ... By Capt. William Dampier. Illustrated with particular ma... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5163
eBooks An ode on the death of Mr. Pelham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4078
eBooks News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3213
eBooks The sister: a comedy. By Mrs. Charlotte Lennox. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3761
eBooks A view of the evidences of Christianity: In three parts. ... By William Paley, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4622
eBooks The history of idle Jack Brown: ... being the third part of The two shoemakers.Two shoemakers. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3995
eBooks The Count of Narbonne: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Robert Jephson, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3953
eBooks Life; or, the adventures of William Ramble, Esq. With three frontispieces, designed by Ibbetson, ... and two new and beautiful songs, with the music by Pleyel and Sterkel. By the author of Modern times; or, the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. In th... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4522
eBooks Craigmillar Castle: An elegy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3956
eBooks A discourse delivered by Thomas Paine, at the Society of the Theophilanthropists, at Paris, 1798Atheism refuted https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3710
eBooks A remarkable case of a numerous birth, with observations: By Maxwell Garthshore, ... From the Philosophical transactions. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5562
eBooks The decline & fall of the English system of finance: By Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, American crisis, Age of reason, &c. [One line of quotation] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5505
eBooks The memoirs of the Countess of Berci. Taken from the French by the author of the Female Quixote. In two volumes.: [pt.1]Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5150
eBooks The fifteen comforts of a Scotch-man. Written by Daniel D'Foe in Scotland https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4298
eBooks The romance of the forest: interspersed with some pieces of poetry. By the authoress of "A Sicilian romance," &c. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3426
eBooks A charge to the poets: By William Whitehead, Esq; Poet Laureat. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3895
eBooks Evenings at home; or, the juvenile budget opened: Consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces, ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4998