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eBooks A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman empire in all its branches: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general. ... By Aaron Hill, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4891
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3435
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.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4088
eBooks The country girl: a comedy, (altered from Wycherley) as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3363
eBooks The case of Thomas Spence: bookseller, the corner of Chancery-Lane, London; who was committed to Clerkenwell prison, on Monday the 10th of December, 1792, for selling the second part of Paine's Rights of man: and a bill of indictment found against... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4494
eBooks The bad bargain: or, the world set up to sale. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3833
eBooks The statues: or, the trial of constancy. A tale for the ladies https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4182
eBooks An historical account of the bitter sufferings, and melancholly circumstances of the episcopal church in Scotland: under the barbarous usage and bloody persecution of the presbyterian church government. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4435
eBooks The children's friend: Translated from the French of M. Berquin; complete in four volumes. Ornamented with frontispieces. [pt.1]Ami des enfans. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4731
eBooks The Gray's-Inn Journal: In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4933
eBooks A complete history of the English stage: ... by Mr. Dibdin. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5222
eBooks Sunday reading. The strait gate and the broad way, being the second part of the valley of tears https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4196
eBooks Sins of government, sins of the nation: or, a discourse for the fast, appointed on April 19, 1793. By a volunteer. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4380
eBooks Gnothi seauton. Know your self. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4058
eBooks A conversation between His most sacred Majesty George III. and Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Illustrated with observations, by James Boswell, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3770
eBooks The drama, a poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3969
eBooks The Innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrim's progress : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the au... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3236
eBooks Appearance is against them: in a series of letters, in three volumes, by the author of Emily Herbert, or perfidy punished. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5495
eBooks Four original letters: viz. Two from a husband to a gentleman: and two from a husband to a wife. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3355
eBooks A trip to Scarborough: A comedy. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Altered from Vanbrugh's Relapse; or, virtue in danger. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4936
eBooks The conference: A poem. By C. Churchill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3585
eBooks The examiner. A satire. By Arthur Murphy, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3948
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4678
eBooks Black Giles the poacher: ... Part II. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5411
eBooks The grand question debated; or an essay to prove that the soul of man is not, neither can it be, immortal. ... By Ontologos https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5192
eBooks Plain directions, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease: ... Sufficient to enable persons to cure themselves, ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor, ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors. By J. Wall, sur... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5554
eBooks Il latte. An elegy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4601
eBooks Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The second edit... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4404
eBooks A poem on Her Majesty's birth-day: By Stephen Duck. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3407
eBooks The Dunciad: An heroic poem. In three books. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3671
eBooks A true account of the design, and advantages of the South-Sea trade: with answers to all the objections rais'd against it. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4336
eBooks The ambitious step-mother: A tragedy. As 'twas acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's servants. By N. Rowe, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4304
eBooks An essay on redemption by Jesus Christ. ... By J. Murray, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4738
eBooks Letters of Mr. Pope, and several eminent persons, from the year 1705, to 1711: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3657
eBooks Admiral Hosier's ghost: To the tune of, Come and listen to my ditty. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4969
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5704
eBooks Advice to those who are afflicted with the venereal disease: Containing the symptoms at large, with practical notes, and advice to them while under cure. Also, methods of preventing any future infection, in either sex. By F. B. Spilsbury, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5593
eBooks The royal vision: in an ode to peace: By Henry Jones ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3418
eBooks An account of some of the most romantic parts of North Wales https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3807
eBooks Mr. Pope's literary correspondence. Volume the fifth. With letters of Lord Bolingbroke. Lord Lansdowne.: [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3662
eBooks Letters upon the poetry and music of the Italian opera: addressed to a friend. By the late Mr John Brown, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5289
eBooks Mr. Burke's speech, on the motion made for papers relative to the directions for charging the Nabob of Arcot's private debts to Europeans: on the revenues of the Carnatic. February 28th, 1785. With an appendix, containing several documents. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4070
eBooks A continuation of Letters written by a Turkish spy at Paris: Giving an impartial account to the divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, ... continued from the year 1687, to the year 1693. Written originally in Arabic... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3454
eBooks A curious little oration, deliver'd by Father Andrew: concerning the present great quarrels that divide the clergy of France. Translated from the fourth edition of the French, by Dan. De F-e. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4492
eBooks The French flogged, or, the British sailors in America, a farce of two acts, as it was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4468
eBooks Charles and Charlotte: In two volumes. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4383
eBooks The observer: being a collection of moral, literary and familiar essays. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5009
eBooks The history of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... [pt.1]Sir Charles Grandison https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3522
eBooks Human happiness: or the sceptic. A poem, in six cantos. By Thomas Holcroft, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4899
eBooks Memoirs of a woman of pleasure (Fanny Hill) https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3018