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eBooks Discourses concerning government: by Algernon Sidney, ... Publish'd from an original manuscript. The second edition carefully corrected. To which is added, the paper he deliver'd to the Sheriffs immediately before his death. And an alphabetical ta... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4939
eBooks The national advocates, a poem. Affectionately inscribed to the Honourable Thomas Erskine, and Vicary Gibbs, Esquire https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4042
eBooks Silvia; or, the country burial. An opera: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. With the musick prefix'd to each song. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4178
eBooks Summer https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3135
eBooks Statutes of the Maiden Hospital: founded by the company of merchants of Edinburgh, and Mary Erskine. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5677
eBooks Gideon; or, the patriot. An epic poem: in twelve books. Upon a Hebrew plan. In honour of the two chief virtues of a people; intrepidity in foreign war: and spirit of domestic liberty. With miscellaneous notes, and large reflections, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4280
eBooks A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year, 1699: Wherein are described, the Canary-Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St Jago. The Bay of All Saints, with the forts and town of Bahia in Brasil. ... A table of all the variations observ'd in this voyage.... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5318
eBooks Ovid's elegies https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3027
eBooks Explanatory remarks upon The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy: wherein, the morals and politics of this piece are clearly laid open, by Jeremiah Kunastrokius, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5128
eBooks Epistles to several persons https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3654
eBooks The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney-General against Thomas Paine: for a libel upon the Revolution and settlement of the Crown and regal government as by law established; ... Tried by a s... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3725
eBooks Dorando: a Spanish tale. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3966
eBooks Hymns founded on various texts in the holy scriptures: By the late Reverend Philip Doddridge, D.D. Published from the author's manuscript by Job Orton. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4794
eBooks The golden pippin: an English burletta, in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By the author of Midas. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3983
eBooks The good natur'd man: a comedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Mr. Goldsmith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3538
eBooks Elegy on the death of His Grace the Duke of Rutland. By Dr. Delap https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4656
eBooks Remarks on several very important prophecies: In five parts. ... By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5209
eBooks The parent's assistant; or, stories for children. Part I. Containing, The Little Dog Trusty; OR, The Liar And Boy Of Truth. The Orange Man; OR, The Honest Boy And The Thief. Tarlton. Lazy Lawrence. The False Key: and Barring-Out. To which is prefi... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5673
eBooks The children's friend: Translated from the French of M. Berquin; complete in four volumes. Ornamented with frontispieces. [pt.3]Ami des enfans. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4733
eBooks Roderick HudsonRoderick Hudson https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3238
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF ROMEO and IVLIET https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5721
eBooks A dissertation on antient tragedy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4620
eBooks The rape of the Lock: an heroi-comical poem in five canto's https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3025
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. In two volumes. By the author of The female Quixote. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5234
eBooks Caractacus: a dramatic poem: written on the model of the ancient Greek tragedy. By the author of Elfrida. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4790
eBooks The history of Lady Julia Mandeville: In two volumes. By the translator of Lady Catesby's letters. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4419
eBooks Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, ... and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, &c. of the republic of Venice, ... The whole now first published from original copies, by Mr. Hull. In two volumes: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4862
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/20.500.14106/5047
eBooks An answer to the first part of The age of reason: Printed in 1794. By Thomas Taylor, V.D.M. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5002
eBooks The delicate distress, a novel: in letters. In two volumes. By Frances. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3518
eBooks To Mr. Gray, on his odes https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3439
eBooks The thresher's miscellany: or, poems on several subjects, written by Arthur Duck. Now a poor thresher in the county of Suffolk, ... though formerly an Eton-scholar. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5094
eBooks In the South Seas https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3185
eBooks Sermons, by Alexander Gerard, D.D.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4754
eBooks Right at last https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3110
eBooks Advice to the Tories who have taken the oaths https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4607
eBooks David Harum: a story of American life https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3134
eBooks A compendious history of the British churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. By John Brown.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5135
eBooks Antidotaria; or, a collection of antidotes against the plague, and other malignant diseases. Together, with some decent and useful remarks, on the late Pharmacopeia Londinensis, ... By Joseph Browne, L.L.M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5590
eBooks Spanish memoirs: in a series of original letters. Containing the history of Donna Isabella della Villarea, ... Published by the author of Maria, or the generous rustic. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4963
eBooks An essay on the retroversion of the uterus: illustrated with cases and observations. By William Cockell, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5681
eBooks A system of magick; or, a history of the black art: Being an historical account of mankind's most early dealing with the Devil; and how the acquaintance on both sides first begun. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4508
eBooks A select collection of poems: with notes, biographical and historical.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4775
eBooks The female Quixote: or, the adventures of Arabella. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4542
eBooks Duplicity: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. By Thomas Holcroft. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3971
eBooks The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5077
eBooks A postscript to John Bull: containing the history of the Crown-Inn, with the death of the widow, and what happened thereon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4120
eBooks A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation. By James Boswell, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3800
eBooks He's much to blame: a comedy: in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3992
eBooks The bricklayer's poem to the Countess of Chesterfield, on Her Ladyship's saving the soldiers from being shot https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3308