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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/20.500.14106/4810
eBooks The singular case of a lady, who had the small-pox during pregnancy; and who communicated the same disease to the foetus: By W. Lynn, Surgeon. As read at the Royal Society in February 1786. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5644
eBooks Rimes https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5171
eBooks The beggar's opera: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3520
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF Othello, the Moore of Venice. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5718
eBooks Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England, from its origin to the introduction of the Linnæan system: By Richard Pulteney, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4665
eBooks A supplement to Hutton's arithmetic: containing the solutions, at full length, of the promiscuous collection of questions proposed in that work. By the authorSchool-master's guide: or, a complete system of practical arithmetic. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4255
eBooks The triumph of Isis: a poem. Occasioned by Isis, an elegy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4233
eBooks Life's Handicap https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3282
eBooks The lues venerea, rationally handled, in its original cause: with its cure. By J. A. surgeon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5642
eBooks An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions: By the author of the essay on the principle of population. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4799
eBooks Secular ode in commemoration of the glorious revolution, M DC LXXXVIII. By W. Mason, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5396
eBooks Sir Eldred of the bower: and the bleeding rock: two legendary tales. By Miss Hannah More. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4403
eBooks A letter to the Honourable Thomas Erskine: on the prosecution of Thomas Williams, for publishing The age of reason. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3717
eBooks The Fringes of the Fleet https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3274
eBooks A treatise concerning the small-pox: In which a plain and easy method of curing that disease under its most direful symptoms, is discover'd. ... In a letter, written in the year 1716, to the learned Dr. John Bateman, ... by F. Bellinger, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5606
eBooks The vicar of Wakefield: a tale. Supposed to be written by himself. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5353
eBooks Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. T... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5514
eBooks The compendious measurer: being a brief, yet comprehensive, treatise on mensuration and practical geometry. ... Adapted to the use of schools ... By Charles Hutton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5415
eBooks Calculations to determine at what point in the side of a hill its attraction will be the greatest, &c: By Charles Hutton, ... Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 11, 1779. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5143
eBooks Lethe: A dramatic satire. By David Garrick. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4013
eBooks Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the Dunciad. By Mr. Dennis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4157
eBooks The emigrants, a poem, in two books. By Charlotte Smith https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3919
eBooks Some reasons given against an opinion that a person infected with the small-pox may be cured by antidote without incurring the distemper: ... By Thomas Frewen, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5657
eBooks Prospects on the war and paper currency: By Thomas Paine, ...Prospects on the Rubicon https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3719
eBooks The case fairly stated between the Turky Company and the Italian merchants: By a merchant. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4500
eBooks Religion: or, the libertine repentant: A rhapsody. By George Alexander Stevens. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4154
eBooks A brief view of the figures: and explication of the metaphors, contained in scripture. By John Brown, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5072
eBooks A poem. Humbly presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon his accession to the throne. By Susanna Centlivre https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3871
eBooks An ode to the naiads of Fleet-Ditch: By Arthur Murphy, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3554
eBooks Slavery, a poem. By Hannah More https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4179
eBooks A survey of experimental philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement. Illustrated with cuts. ... By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5374
eBooks Zimri. An oratorio: Written by Dr. Hawkesworth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4251
eBooks Miscellanies; or, literary recreations. By I. D'Israeli https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4917
eBooks The fast, a poem: translated from the prophet Isaiah. By the Rev. James Murray. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3375
eBooks An estimate of the religion of the fashionable world: By one of the laity. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3945
eBooks The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. [pt.2]Iliad. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4375
eBooks An essay on circulation and credit: in four parts; and a letter on the jealousy of commerce. From the French of Monsieur de Pinto. Translated, with annotations, by the Rev. S. Baggs, M.A.Traité de la circulation et du crédit. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5030
eBooks Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem; in two books. By the author of Sympathy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4000
eBooks The Athenaid: a poem, by the author of Leonidas. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4813
eBooks Albina, Countess Raimond: a tragedy, by Mrs. Cowley: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4282
eBooks A cure for the heart-ache: a comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden by Thomas Morton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3959
eBooks Political discourses: By David Hume Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3634
eBooks Directions for the medicine chest https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5672
eBooks Much adoe about Nothing. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5712
eBooks Barataria: or, Sancho turn'd governor, a farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Frederick Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4134
eBooks The basset-table: A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants. By the author of The gamester. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3307
eBooks Political observations on the Test Act https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3626
eBooks Observations on the resolutions of the clergy: who assembled at Chester, Feb. 15th. 1790, for the purpose of supporting the Corporation and Test Acts. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5437
eBooks The poor man's medicine chest: or, Thompson's box of antibilious alterative [sic] pills. With a few brief remarks on the stomach; ... By John-Weeks Thompson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5667