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eBooks Chronology; or, the historian's vade-mecum: Wherein every remarkable occurrence in English history, ... are alphabetically recorded, and the dates affixed; ... By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler. ... In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4773
eBooks The royal suppliants. A tragedy: As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5140
eBooks A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton: By James Thomson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4846
eBooks Sentimental excursions to Windsor: and other places, with notes critical, illustrative, and explanatory, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5131
eBooks Knave, or not?: A comedy: in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By Thomas Holcroft. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4142
eBooks The old whig: ... On the state of the peerage. With remarks upon the Plebeian. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3544
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/20.500.14106/5038
eBooks King Dionysius and Squire Damocles: a new song on an old story. Proper to be sung at all feasts and merry-makings. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3890
eBooks The castle of Andalusia: a comic opera. In three acts. As it is performed at the theatres in London and Dublin. By John O'Keefe, Esqr.Banditti. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5028
eBooks The school for rakes: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3605
eBooks A brief case of the distillers: and of the distilling trade in England, shewing how far it is the interest of England to encourage the said trade, as it is so considerable an advantage to the landed interest, to the trade and navigation, to the pu... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4317
eBooks Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge July 1, 1749: At the installation of His Grace Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle Chancellor of the University. By Mr. Mason ... Set to music by Mr. Boyce. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4080
eBooks Remarks on the opinions of some of the most celebrated writers on Crown Law: respecting the due distinction between manslaughter and murder: ... With a prefatory address to the reader, ... By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5213
eBooks THE TEMPEST. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5725
eBooks Souvenirs of France https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3301
eBooks Experiments on the nervous system: with opium and metalline substances; made chiefly with the view of determining the nature and effects of animal electricity. By Alexander Monro, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5613
eBooks The poems: of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4890
eBooks Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends. With a fragment in the manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix'd, memoirs of his life and family. Written by himself. And published by his daughter, Mrs. Medalle. In three... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3788
eBooks Yarico to Inkle: an epistle. By the author of the Elegy written among the ruins of an abbey. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4585
eBooks The humours of an election: A farce. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by F. Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4135
eBooks The history of Great Britain, from the Restoration, to the accession of the house of Hannover: By James Macpherson, in two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4421
eBooks The agreeable surprise: A comic opera. In two acts. By Mr. O'Keefe. The music composed by Dr. Arnold. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3333
eBooks Dissertations on subjects relating to the genius and the evidences of Christianity: By Alexander Gerard, D.D. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4756
eBooks A day in Turkey: or, the Russian slaves. A comedy, as acted at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4266
eBooks Henry: in four volumes. By the author of Arundel. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4966
eBooks The Phantom Rickshaw; and other tales https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3290
eBooks The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Douglas, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5314
eBooks A collection of poems and translations: in English and Latin. By Thomas Hull. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3646
eBooks Jason; a tragedy: in five acts. By R. Glover, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4139
eBooks The gipsies. A comick opera, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4692
eBooks A sermon preached at St. George's Bloomsbury, on Sunday, March 28: for the benefit of the Humane Society, ... By Thomas Francklin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3748
eBooks Experiments and observations on the blood when mixed with urine: By Everard Home, Esq. F.R.S. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5536
eBooks A new voyage round the world: Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, ... their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, ... Vol.I. By Captain William Dampier. Illustrated with particular maps and dra... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5293
eBooks Speed the plough: a comedy, in five acts. As performed with universal applause at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Thomas Morton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5158
eBooks Hydriotaphia: Urn-burial, or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3162
eBooks The Seven Seas https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3297
eBooks Robin Hood: A new musical entertainment. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The musick compos'd by the Society of the Temple of Apollo. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4131
eBooks Tom Jones, a comic opera: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Joseph Reed. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3576
eBooks The works of Alexander Pope Esq. In nine volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; ... Together with the commentaries and notes of Mr. Warburton: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3651
eBooks An epistle to C. Churchill, author of The rosciad. By R. Lloyd, M.A https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3551
eBooks Esther, an oratorio: or sacred drama; as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, with the last improvements. By George Frederic Handel, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5450
eBooks Poems. By Robert Lloyd, A.M https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4951
eBooks The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentlemanTristram Shandy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3028
eBooks The bastard: A poem, inscribed with all due reverence to Mrs. Bret, once Countess of Macclesfield. By Richard Savage, son of the late Earl Rivers. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5416
eBooks Maud: a monodrama https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3030
eBooks The fatal falsehood: a tragedy: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. By the author of Percy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3978
eBooks The history of the parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4949
eBooks The Protestant monastery: or, a complaint against the brutality of the present age. Particularly the pertness and insolence of our youth to aged persons. ... Concluding with a proposal for erecting a Protestant monastery, where persons of small fo... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4557
eBooks Traffics and Discoveries https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3295
eBooks Alciphron: or, the minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those who are called free-thinkers. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4712