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eBooks Letters written to and for particular friends: on the most important occasions. Directing not only the requisite style and forms to be observed in writing familiar letters; but how to think and act justly and prudently, in the common concerns of h... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4582
eBooks Clarissa: Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. ... Published by the editor of Pamela. ... [pt.7] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4364
eBooks The recess: or, a tale of other times. By the author of The chapter of accidents. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4944
eBooks The lady of the manor: a comic opera: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Dr. Kenrick. The songs set to music by Mr. Hook. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4010
eBooks The history of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carency. Containing a variety of entertaining novels, ... Written in French by the Countess d'Aunois, ... Translated into EnglishHistoire de Jean de Bourbon, Prince du Carency. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3521
eBooks The late tryal and conviction of Count Tariff https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3802
eBooks The maid of Arragon; a tale: By Mrs. Cowley. Part I. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4029
eBooks The story of my boyhood and youth https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3246
eBooks The lifted veil https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3090
eBooks A comparative statement of the two bills, for the better government of the British possessions in India: brought into Parliament by Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt. With explanatory observations. By R. B. Sheridan, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5419
eBooks Diligence and dissipation: or the progress of a modest girl and a wanton, exemplified in ten different stages of their lives: ... The plates are engraved from pictures invented and painted by James Northcote, R.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5435
eBooks The lover's treat: or, unnatural hatred: Being a true narrative ... Written by Mrs. Charke, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4473
eBooks The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3193
eBooks A letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of O----d. Containing some animadversions upon a character given of the late Dr. Bentley, in a letter, from a late professor in the University of Oxford, to the Right Rev. author of The divine legatio... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4020
eBooks An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn: and a proposal for some regulations concerning felons in prison, and the good effects to be expected from them. ... By B. Mandeville, M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4388
eBooks Something of Myself, For My Friends Known and Unknown https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3300
eBooks Atheism refuted: in a discourse to prove the existence of a God. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3709
eBooks The female advocate: or an attempt to recover the rights of women from male usurpation. By Mary Anne Radcliffe. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5092
eBooks Critical strictures on the new tragedy of Elvira: written by Mr. David Malloch. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3505
eBooks The deserted daughter: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5115
eBooks A philosophical essay on man: Being an attempt to investigate the principles and laws of the reciprocal influence of the soul on the body. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4089
eBooks Natural history: general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 260 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. [pt.8]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5063
eBooks The fair Hibernian: In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5663
eBooks Dr. Goldsmith's Roman history abridged by himself for the use of schoolsRoman history. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5325
eBooks The walking statue: or, the devil in the wine-cellar. A comedy, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3492
eBooks The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was born in Newgate, ... Written from her own memorandumsFortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4506
eBooks Of the characters of women: an epistle to a lady. By Mr. Pope https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3690
eBooks Emma Corbett: or, the miseries of civil war. Founded on some recent circumstances which happened in America. By the author of Liberal opinions, Pupil of pleasure, Shenstone Green, &c. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3372
eBooks Varieties of religious experience: a study in human nature https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3123
eBooks Money answers all things https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3187
eBooks The captive: a comic opera; as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4411
eBooks The occasional miscellany, in prose and verse: Consisting of, a variety of letters, written originally to a young gentleman who design'd to go into Holy Orders, ... By John Wallis,. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4881
eBooks Clarissa: Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. ... Published by the editor of Pamela. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4358
eBooks The end of oppression: being a dialogue between an old mechanic and a young one. Concerning the establishment of the rights of man. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3648
eBooks The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated: in a dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; on the one part, and his learned council on the other. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3679
eBooks Natural history: general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 260 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. [pt.2]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5060
eBooks Case of a fracture of the sternum: by John Hale, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5527
eBooks The mogul tale: or, the descent of the balloon. A farce. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5024
eBooks A short treatise on the English tongue: Being an attempt to render the reading and pronunciation of the same more easy to foreigners. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3740
eBooks The court ballad: By Mr. Pope. To the tune of, To all you ladies now at land, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3668
eBooks The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5074
eBooks Literary memoirs of living authors of Great Britain: arranged according to an alphabetical catalogue ... and including a list of their works, with occasional opinions upon their literary character. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4638
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3432
eBooks From Sea to Sea https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3296
eBooks Prologue to the court: on the Queen's birth-day, 1704. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3309
eBooks Essays, moral and political https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3632
eBooks The man of the world: A comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatres-Royal of Covent-Garden and Smock-Alley ... Written by Charles Macklin, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4033
eBooks Modern times: or the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. Supposed to be written by himself. In imitation of Gil Blas. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4822
eBooks The Scottish village: or, Pitcairne Green. A poem. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5137
eBooks Fugitive pieces: Written by J. P. Kemble. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5068