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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Cynthia's revels https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3252
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 case of the apothecaries https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5572
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 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 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 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 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
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 The Merchant of Venice. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5715
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4100
eBooks A brief survey of the legal liberties of the dissenters: and how far the bill now depending consists with preserving the toleration inviolably: wherein the present bill is published; and also the Toleration Act at large, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4429
eBooks An essay on cutaneous diseases, and all impurities of the skin. Proposing a specific, and, method of cure. By John Gowland, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5618
eBooks A discourse concerning the action of the sun and moon on animal bodies; and the influence which this may have in many diseases. By Richard Mead, M.D. ... In two partsDe imperio solis ac lunæ in corpora humana. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5611
eBooks Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also, an appendix, containing such articles on the subject, as have been omitted by that author. By John... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5290
eBooks Curiosities in the Tower of London.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5027
eBooks Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace: in a series of letters. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4214
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5252
eBooks A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal: the next day after her death: to one Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4552
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/20.500.14106/5052
eBooks A new comedy. Love a-al-a-mode [sic] in two acts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5034
eBooks Rosamond: An opera. Humbly inscrib'd to Her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3421
eBooks Edward and Eleonora. A tragedy: As it was to have been acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Mr. Thomson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3539
eBooks Timanthes: a tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. By John Hoole. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3616
eBooks The present uncertainty in the knowledge of med'cines, in a letter to the physicians in the Commission for sick and wounded seamen. With a postscript to physicians, shewing the necessity of a true theory of diseases. By W. Corkburn, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5607
eBooks One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. A dialogue something like Horace. By Mr. Pope https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3693
eBooks Daisy Miller https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3147
eBooks Public good: being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the same. To which is added, proposals for laying off a new state, to be applied as a fund for carrying on the w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5499
eBooks The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes: With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. ... By Will. Whiston, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4879
eBooks A select collection of poems: with notes, biographical and historical.: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4777
eBooks Comus: a mask presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3192
eBooks Arabian nightsThe Arabian Nights https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3074
eBooks An argument, shewing, that the Prince of Wales, tho' a Protestant, has no just pretensions to the crown of England. With some remarks on the late pretended discovery of a design to steal him away https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5058
eBooks Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: The design of which is plainly to demonstrate the reality and perfection of humane knowlege, the incorporeal nature of the soul, and the immediate providence of a deity: in opposition to sceptics and at... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4633
eBooks Two Years Before the Mast https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3079