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eBooks The Lady's museum: By the author of The Female Quixote. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3546
eBooks The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America: being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3419
eBooks The tobacconist, a comedy: of two acts altered from Ben Johnson. Acted at the Theatres Royal in the Hay-market and Edinburgh. (With universal applause). https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4981
eBooks The prodigal. A dramatic piece. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, in the Hay-Market, December 2, 1793 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4124
eBooks The family instructor: in three parts; I. Relating to fathers and children. II. To masters and servants. III. To husbands and wives. [pt.1]Family instructor. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4554
eBooks Clifton: a poem, in two cantos: Including Bristol and all its environs. By Henry Jones, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3611
eBooks The free-holders plea against stock-jobbing elections of Parliament men https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4471
eBooks Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3131
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/20.500.14106/4808
eBooks The recess: or, a tale of other times. By the author of The chapter of accidents. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4943
eBooks Essays upon several subjects in law: sciz. justertii, beneficium cedendarum actionum, vinco vincentem, prescription. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4982
eBooks The general. A poem: Respectfully inscribed to the Right Honourable the Marquis of Granby. By the author of A trip to the moon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3322
eBooks Six weeks at Heppenheim https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3102
eBooks The fate of Sparta: or, the rival kings. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3979
eBooks Observations on the cow-pox. By William Woodville, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5573
eBooks An essay on the regulation of the press https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3360
eBooks The vision. A poem on the death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline. By Stephen Duck https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4742
eBooks The forge in the forest https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3129
eBooks The life of Jonathan Wild: from his birth to his death. Containing his rise and progress in roguery; ... The second edition. By H. D. late Clerk to Justice - https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5439
eBooks An essay on the South-Sea trade: With an enquiry into the grounds and reasons of the present dislike and complaint against the settlement of a South-Sea company. By the author of the Review. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4424
eBooks The seditious insects: or, the levellers assembled in convocation. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4573
eBooks A Princess of Mars https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3057
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.1]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5059
eBooks The non-juror: A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's servants. Writien [sic] by Mr. Cibber. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5434
eBooks Observations on the bills of mortality, in Carlisle: for the year 1779. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5544
eBooks The chimera: or, the French way of paying national debts, laid open: Being an impartial account of the proceedings in France, for raising a paper credit, and settling the Mississipi stock. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4321
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4101
eBooks The second satire of the second book of Horace praprhased [sic]: By the author of the first. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3697
eBooks A sermon, occasioned by the death of His late Majesty: Preached on the ninth of November. In the morning at Queen-Street chapel, and in the afternoon at St. Paul's, Covent-Garden. By the Revd. Thomas Francklin. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4464
eBooks The marriage of Heaven and Hell https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3068
eBooks What a blunder!: A comic opera, in three acts: first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, August 14, 1800. By Joseph George Holman, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4241
eBooks Midas: an English burletta. As it is performed, at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4277
eBooks Modern anecdote of the ancient family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns: a tale for Christmas 1779. Dedicated to ... Horace Walpole, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4484
eBooks Agrarian justice opposed to agrarian law: and to agrarian monopoly; being a plan for meliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a national fund, ... By Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3708
eBooks An essay on sculpture: in a series of epistles to John Flaxman, ... By William Hayley, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4744
eBooks A fifth essay, at removing national prejudices; with a reply to some authors, who have printed their objections against an Union with EnglandEssay at removing national prejudices against a Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4550
eBooks The younger brother: a novel, in three volumes, written by Mr. Dibdin. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5219
eBooks Garrick's looking-glass: or, the art of rising on the stage: A poem. In three cantos. Decorated with dramatic characters. By the author of *****. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4053
eBooks Poems on several occasions. Written by a young lady https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5247
eBooks The evident approach of a war: and something of the necessity of it, in order to establish peace, and preserve trade. To which is added, an exact plan and description of the bay and city of Gibraltar. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4509
eBooks The evidences of the Christian religion: by the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq; To which are added, several discourses against atheism and infidelity, ... occasionally published by him and others: ... With a preface, containing the sentiments... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4596
eBooks Sylvia's lovers https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3092
eBooks A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark: In a series of letters, illustrated with engravings. By Matthew Consett, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4613
eBooks A miscellany on taste. By Mr. Pope, &c. Viz. I. of taste in architecture. An epistle to the Earl of Burlington. With notes variorum, and a compleat key. II. Of Mr. Pope's taste in divinity, viz. the fall of man, and the first Psalm. Translated for... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3653
eBooks The Wicklow mountains: or, the lad of the hills, a comic opera, in two acts. Written by O'Keeffe. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3494
eBooks Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall-street https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3146
eBooks The history of Hindostan: from the earliest account of time, to the death of Akbar; translated from the Persian of Mahummud Casim Ferishta of Delhi: ... With an appendix, containing the history of the Mogul empire, from its decline in the reign of... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4760
eBooks A supplement to the miscellanies of Thomas ChattertonMiscellanies in prose and verse. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4198
eBooks An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4737
eBooks A miscellany, containing several tracts on various subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4040