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eBooks A political romance: addressed to - -, Esq. of York. To which is subjoined a key ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3410
eBooks A lick at a liar: or, calumny detected. Being an occasional letter to a friend from Theophilus Cibber, comedian https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4060
eBooks Poems on several occasions: By Stephen Duck. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4741
eBooks Troilus & Criseyde https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3202
eBooks The Gotham election: a farce. By Mrs. Centlivre. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3864
eBooks A declaration of the people's natural right to a share in the legislature: which is the fundamental principle of the British constitution of state. By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3908
eBooks Poems; ludicrous, satirical and moral https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4658
eBooks The ghost: By C. Churchill. Book III.Ghost. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4057
eBooks The fair American: a comic opera, in three acts; as it is performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Written by F. Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3972
eBooks A letter to the people of Scotland, on the alarming attempt to infringe the Articles of the Union, and introduce a most pernicious innovation, by diminishing the number of the lords of session. By James Boswell, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3556
eBooks A letter from Mr. Congreve to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5295
eBooks Horæ Paulinæ: or the truth of the scripture history of St. Paul evinced, ... By William Paley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4654
eBooks An account of the extraordinary medicinal fluid, called æther: By M. Turner, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5674
eBooks The northern-star: A poem. Written by Mr. Hill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3468
eBooks The town before you, a comedy: as acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4229
eBooks The deserter. A new musical drama: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5456
eBooks A sequel to Common sense: or, the American controversy considered in two points of view hitherto unnoticed. ... By Theophilus Philadelphus. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4168
eBooks The history of the Norfolk steward continued: In two parts. Part I. Containing an account of Mr. Lyn's private character, ... Part II. Containing some farther account of Mr. Lyn's management, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3324
eBooks An essay upon buying and selling of speeches. In a letter to a worshipfull Justice of the Peace, being also a member of a certain worshipfull society of speech-makers https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4330
eBooks Cranford https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3096
eBooks Tales of the Trade https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3304
eBooks British zoology: ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5393
eBooks A succinct account of a machine, newly invented for the cure of præternatural curvatures of the spine: together with a detail of several cases, in which this machine has been tried with great success. By D. Merande, M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5577
eBooks The country–wife: [a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3038
eBooks Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorit... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4839
eBooks Know your own mind: a comedy, performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4136
eBooks The history of English poetry: from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century. To which are prefixed, two dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5311
eBooks The life of John Buncle: Esq; containing various observations and reflections, made in several parts of the world, and many extraordinary relations. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5671
eBooks An essay on the character of Hamlet: As performed by Mr. Henderson, at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4597
eBooks The story of Lady Juliana Harley: A novel. In letters. By Mrs. Griffith. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4447
eBooks The hermit: To which are added, A hymn to contentment; Health, an eclogue; and A night piece, on death. By Dr. Thomas Parnell, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5480
eBooks A further account of the most deplorable condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller. Since his being poison'd on the 28th of March. To be publish'd weekly https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3681
eBooks The Earl of Essex: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Henry Jones. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4856
eBooks The maid of the mill. A comic opera: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. The music compiled, and the words written by the author of Love in a village. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4030
eBooks The citizen. A farce: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Arthur Murphy, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3897
eBooks The beauties of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, selected from the writings, &c. of that extraordinary man, ... To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life, with some original anecdotes of Mr. Burke. In two volumes.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3836
eBooks The iron chest: a play; in three acts. Written by George Colman, the younger. With a preface. First represented at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Saturday, 12th March, 1796. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4006
eBooks A discourse concerning the nature and certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of fluxions, and of prime and ultimate ratios. By Benjamin Robins, F.R.S https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5070
eBooks Mr. Ward's practice of physick, as it relates to the publick, impartially considered. In a letter to Thomas Carew, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5553
eBooks Patriotism, a mock-heroic. In five cantos https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3753
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/20.500.14106/5043
eBooks Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3022
eBooks The true-born Englishman: a satyr, answer'd, paragraph by paragraph. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4571
eBooks An inquiry into the origin of episcopacy, in a discourse preached in June, 1790. By a dignitary of the Church of England https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3767
eBooks The highlander: a poem: in six cantos. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4906
eBooks The journey: A fragment. By C. Churchill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3886
eBooks The voyages, travels and adventures, of William Owen Gwin Vaughan, Esq: With the history of his brother Jonathan Vaughan, six years a slave in Tunis. Intermix'd with the histories of Clerimont, Maria, Eleanora, and others. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4544
eBooks A proposal for putting a speedy end to the war, by ruining the commerce of the French and Spaniards: and securing our own, without any additional expence to the nation. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4912
eBooks The journey from Chester to London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5406
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5254