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eBooks Two dithyrambic odes: I. On enthusiasm. II. To laughter. By the author of Rimes. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5087
eBooks An account of the rise, progress, and state of the London Infirmary: supported by charitable and voluntary subscription, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, seamen in merchant service, and their wives and children, from the first in... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5567
eBooks A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: With notes. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4988
eBooks Essays on the Characteristics: By John Brown, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4924
eBooks An epistle to the author of The four farthing candles: By the author of The Rosciad of C-v-nt-G-rd-n. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3326
eBooks Letter from Mr. Francis to Lord North, late Earl of Guildford. With an appendix https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4757
eBooks A short account of the nature and use of spectacles. In which is recommended, a kind of glass for spectacles, ... By James Ayscough, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5592
eBooks The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, œconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4809
eBooks Reason the only oracle of man: a compendious system of natural religion https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3160
eBooks The plain dealer: being select essays on several curious subjects: relating to friendship, ... poetry, and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now first collected into two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5199
eBooks A survey of experimental philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement. Illustrated with cuts. ... By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5373
eBooks The tutor of truth: By the author of The pupil of pleasure, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3444
eBooks An essay on the study of literature: Written originally in French, by Edward Gibbon, Jun. Esq; Now first translated into English.Essai sur l'étude de la littérature. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4651
eBooks Thespis: or, a critical examination into the merits of all the principal performers belonging to Drury-Lane Theatre https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3446
eBooks Lives. EnglishThe lives of the noble Grecians and Romans https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3155
eBooks The horse and the olive: or, war and peace. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3316
eBooks Three memorials on French affairs: Written in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793. By the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4215
eBooks A rational account of the cause, nature, and cure of gleets: and other such weaknesses usually attending persons after former cures, self-abuses, &c. By the author of the Practical scheme. This book is given gratis only at the four following place... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5692
eBooks Persian eclogues. Written originally for the entertainment of the ladies of Tauris: And now first translated, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5383
eBooks An essay at removing national prejudices against a union with Scotland. To be continued during the treaty here. Part IIEssay at removing national prejudices against a Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3374
eBooks The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. [pt.1]Iliad. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4374
eBooks The tragedie of HAMLET, Prince of Denmarke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5707
eBooks The stage defended, from Scripture, reason, experience, and the common sense of mankind, for two thousand years. Occasion'd by Mr. Law's late pamphlet against stage-entertainments. In a letter to ****** By Mr. Dennis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4181
eBooks A reply to The grand question debated: fully proving, that the soul of man is, and must be immortal. ... By Ontologos. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5193
eBooks A token for mariners: containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, ... (Much enlarg'd ... ). Also The seaman's preacher, ... And prayers for seamen on all occasions. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5216
eBooks Hermione, or the orphan sisters: A novel. In four volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5263
eBooks Sketches of the history of man: In four volumes. By Henry Home, Lord Kaims, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4512
eBooks The marvelous land of Oz : being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman ... the story being a sequel to The Wizard of Oz https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3230
eBooks The history of Hester Wilmot; or, the new gown. Part II. Being a continuation of The Sunday schoolSunday school. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5412
eBooks French ways and their meaning https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3159
eBooks The theory of moral sentiments https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3189
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3433
eBooks An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes: By Sir Hans Sloane, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5648
eBooks Cecilia: or memoirs of an heiress. By the author of Evelina. In five volumes. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4870
eBooks Nostromo https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3077
eBooks The triumvirate: or, the authentic memoirs of A. B. and C. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5636
eBooks The British librarian: exhibiting a compendious review or abstract of our most scarce, useful, and valuable books in all sciences, as well in manuscript as in print: ... With a complete index ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5389
eBooks Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4213
eBooks The lady and the pye; or, know thyself https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4009
eBooks Sketch for a medical education https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5689
eBooks The monument: a poem sacred to the immortal memory of the best and greatest of kings, William the Third. ... By Mr. Dennis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5195
eBooks Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses. EnglishReflections on the formation and distribution of wealth https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3186
eBooks An inquiry into the original production of insects in human bodies, especially of the seminal animalcula; and whether these pass the testicular strainers, and are reposited in the seminal bladders in infants, or not till near puberty https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5599
eBooks An examination of the principles contained in The age of reason: In ten discourses. By James Muir, D.D. Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Alexandria. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5513
eBooks The adventures of Roderick Random: In two volumes. ... [pt.1]Adventures of Roderick Random https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4294
eBooks The compassion and beneficence of the deity: A sermon, preached before the Society incorporated by Royal Charter for the Benefit of the Sons of the Clergy of the Established Church of Scotland, ... May, 20. 1796. By Hugh Blair, ... To which is add... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4952
eBooks The first floor; a farce: In two acts. As it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3980
eBooks A treatise concerning the principles of human knowlege: Part I. Wherein the chief causes of error and difficulty in the sciences, with the grounds of scepticism, atheism, and irreligion, are inquir'd into. By George Berkeley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4634
eBooks Geometry no friend to infidelity: or, a defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British mathematicians, in a letter to the author of The analyst. ... By Philalethes Cantabrigiensis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4648
eBooks Nature in perfection; or, the mother unveil'd: being a congratulatory poem to Mrs. Bret, upon His Majesty's most gracious pardon granted to Mr. Richard Savage, son of the late Earl Rivers. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4769