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eBooks The shortest-way with the dissenters: or proposals for the establishment of the church. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4556
eBooks Editha. A tragedy: By Hugh Downman, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4603
eBooks Mr. Whiston's Letter of thanks to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London: for his late letter to his clergy against the use of new forms of doxology, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3354
eBooks Miscellaneous works: of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With memoirs of his life and writings, composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4652
eBooks The advantages of peace and commerce: with some remarks on the East-India trade. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4314
eBooks The upholsterer: or what news? A farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the author of The apprentice. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5139
eBooks Tony Lumpkin in town: a farce. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. By J. Keeffe, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4269
eBooks The lives of John Trueman, Richard Atkins, &c https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4745
eBooks Elegies by Mr. Delap https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4873
eBooks The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. [pt.6]Iliad. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4379
eBooks My first summer in the Sierra https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3245
eBooks The younger brother: a novel, in three volumes, written by Mr. Dibdin. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5220
eBooks Sprigs of laurel: a comic opera. In two acts. As performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Written by John O'Keeffee [sic], ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4261
eBooks Like master, like man: A comedy of two acts. Alter'd from Sir John Vanbrugh. As perform'd at the Theatre, in Smock-Alley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5443
eBooks Sacred dramas: chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, a poem. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3476
eBooks Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John and William Cunningham and Company brewers in Glasgow, James Hotchkis and Company brewers in Edinburgh, and James Graham vintner in Glasgow, for themselves, and as t... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5481
eBooks Airs and chorusses in The Princess of Georgia: an opera: written by Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach, and performed at Brandenburgh-House Theatre, 1798.Princess of Georgia https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5182
eBooks Proposals for publishing by subscription, dedicated, with permission, to the most noble the Marquis of Salisbury, A complete history of the English stage ... The whole written, with the asistance of interesting documents, collected in the course o... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3413
eBooks Aristotle's master-piece: or the secrets of generation display'd in all the parts thereof; ... Very necessary for all midwives, nurses and young-married-women. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4683
eBooks The cestus: a serenata. Performed at the Royal Circus, in St. George's Fields. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3510
eBooks The author: A poem. By C. Churchill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3591
eBooks A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5157
eBooks Sermons. By Charles Churchill https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4821
eBooks The natural history of birds: From the French of the Count de Buffon. Illustrated with engravings; and a preface, notes, and additions, by the translator. In nine volumes. ... [pt.1]Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5240
eBooks Songs, duets, trios, &c. in The silver tankard; or, ehe [sic] point at Portsmouth. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-MarketSilver tankard. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3474
eBooks The case of the barbers of London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5588
eBooks The fool of quality: or, the history of Henry Earl of Moreland. In four volumes. By Mr. Brooke. [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5623
eBooks The law of passive obedience: or Christian submission to personal injuries: ... By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5215
eBooks An essay on the rhus toxicodendron: pubescent poison oak, or sumach, with cases shewing it's efficacy in the cure of paralysis, ... By John Alderson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5516
eBooks Henry and Rosamond: A tragedy. Dedicated to Sir John Philipps, Bart. By William Hawkins, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3379
eBooks The family picture; or, domestic dialogues on amiable and interesting subjects; ... By Thomas Holcroft,: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4345
eBooks Sir Gawain and the Green Knight https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3306
eBooks Women in Love https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3127
eBooks The poetical works of David Garrick, Esq. Now first collected into two volumes. With explanatory notes.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4108
eBooks The hotel: or, the double valet. A farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Thomas Vaughan, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3999
eBooks The confessions of James Baptiste Couteau: citizen of France, written by himself: and translated from the original French, by Robert Jephson, Esq. Illustrated with nine engravings. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5142
eBooks Achilles: An opera. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by the late Mr. Gay. With the musick prefix'd to each song. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3592
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/20.500.14106/5051
eBooks An appendix to John Bull still in his senses: or, Law is a bottomless-pit. Printed from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir Humphry Polesworth: and publish'd, (as well as the three former parts) by the author of the New Atalantis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3844
eBooks An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies: By John Arbuthnot, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5165
eBooks Letter to a friend https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3161
eBooks A treatise of schemes & tropes: very profytable for the better understanding of good authors, gathered out of the best grammarians & oratours https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3184
eBooks A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain: Divided into circuits or journeys. Giving a particular and entertaining account of whatever is curious, and worth observation; ... By a gentleman. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4529
eBooks A new test of the Church of England's loyalty: or, Whiggish loyalty and church loyalty compar'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4470
eBooks Explanatory remarks on the great utility of hospitals for the sick and poor: By a governor of Addenbrooke's Hospital. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5534
eBooks A treatise of the venereal disease: plainly discovering and directing both sexes, how they may become their own doctors. Teaching them plainly, and perfectly to know their own condition ... And how to cure themselves ... Also to heal all gleets ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5550
eBooks The apprentice turned master: or, the second part of the two shoemakers. ...Two shoemakers. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3847
eBooks Passages selected by distinguished personages: on the great literary trial of Vortigern and Rowena; a comi-tragedy. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5231
eBooks Shakespear illustrated: or the novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. The third and last volume. By the author of The female Quixote. [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5239
eBooks A tract on duelling: wherein the opinions of some of the most celebrated writers on crown law are examined and corrected ... in order to ascertain the due distinction between manslaughter and murder. By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5228