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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks On the legislative authority of the British Parliament https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3136
eBooks A letter from the Cocoa Tree, to the country gentlemen https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3757
eBooks Anne of Avonlea https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3050
eBooks Retaliation: a poem: By Doctor Goldsmith. Including epitaphs on the most distinguished wits of this metropolis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3438
eBooks A poem on the marriage of His serene Highness the Prince of Orange: with Ann Princess-Royal of Great Britain. By Stephen Duck. To which are added, Verses to the author, by a divine. With the author's answer. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3408
eBooks The haunch of venison: a poetical epistle to Lord Clare. By the late Dr. Goldsmith. With a head of the author, drawn by Henry Bunbury, Esq; and etched by Bretherton. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5329
eBooks All in the wrong: A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mr. Murphy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3830
eBooks Every man in his own way: An epistle to a friend. By Stephen Duck. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3312
eBooks A letter to the patentee, concerning the medical properties of the fleecy hosiery: By William Buchan,... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5582
eBooks A circular letter to the several petitioning counties, cities, and towns, addressed to their respective general meetings, against the late proposition for a triennial election of representatives. By Granville Sharp https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5410
eBooks A treatise on scrophulous diseases: shewing the good effects of factitious airs: ... By Charles Brown. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3437
eBooks Sunday reading. The servant man turned soldier; or, the fair weather Christian, A parable https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4195
eBooks The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5273
eBooks Considerations upon the eighth and ninth articles of the treaty of commerce and navigation, now publish'd by authority. With some enquiries into the damages that may accrue to the English trade from them https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4324
eBooks A practical display of the philosophical system called animal magnetism, in which is explained different modes of treating, with some medical observations on the diseases of the human body, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5640
eBooks The famous prophesie of the white king and the dead man explain'd to the present times ... By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5288
eBooks The free-holder: or political essays. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4049
eBooks The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5078
eBooks The hermit. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5507
eBooks Elements of conic sections: with select exercises in various branches of mathematics and philosophy. For the use of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. By Charles Hutton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4256
eBooks Conscience: an ethical essay. By the Reverend J. Brand https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4441
eBooks Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4609
eBooks The actor: A poetical epistle to Bonnell Thornton, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3811
eBooks Two dialogues: containing a comparative view of the lives, characters, and writings, of Philip, the late Earl of Chesterfield, and of Dr. Samuel Johnson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4858
eBooks An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospel: whether they be Deists, Arians, Socinians, or nominal Christians, in which the true grounds and reasons of the whole Christian faith and life are plainly and fully demonstrated, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3125
eBooks An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: comprising figures and descriptions ... By E. Donovan, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4864
eBooks The sea wolf https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3045
eBooks A new theory of continual fevers: Wherein, besides the appearances of such fevers, and the method of their cure; occasionally, the structure of the glands, ... are mechanically explan'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4305
eBooks Oroonoko: or the royal slave. A tragedy. Altered from Southerne, by Francis Gentleman. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4113
eBooks Who's the dupe?: A farce: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3531
eBooks Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4071
eBooks The case of the surgeons of London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5691
eBooks A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners. Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1776. By Sir John Pringle, Baronet, President. Published by their order https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5594
eBooks An examination of The age of reason: or an investigation of true and fabulous theology, by Thomas Paine: by Gilbert Wakefield, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3947
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5249
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5253
eBooks An essay concerning the nature of aliments: and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. ... By John Arbuthnot, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5174
eBooks Moral tales in verse: founded on real events. Written by Thomas Hull, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4753
eBooks The adventures of Hugh Trevor: By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4449
eBooks A collection of letters, never before printed: written by Alexander Pope, Esq; and other ingenious gentlemen, to the late Aaron Hill, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3663
eBooks The wonderful wizard of Oz https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3231
eBooks Original letters: familiar, moral and critical. By Mr. Dennis. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5197
eBooks The time machine https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3056
eBooks Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3721
eBooks The dramatic censor: or, critical companion. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4947
eBooks Edwin and Angelina: A ballad. By Mr. Goldsmith. Printed for the amusement of the Countess of Northumberland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3516
eBooks The cobler: or, a wife of ten thousand. A ballad opera. In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4689
eBooks [Shakespeare: an epistle to Mr. Garrick; with an ode to genius.] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4175
eBooks Agnes Grey https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3072
eBooks The tenant of Wildfell Hall https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3073