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eBooks Considerations upon the augmentation of the army: Address'd to the publick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5420
eBooks An apology for the life and writings of David Hume, Esq: with a parallel between him and the late Lord Chesterfield: to which is added an address to one of the people called Christians. By way of reply to his letter to Adam Smith, L.L.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3633
eBooks The connoisseur: By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5407
eBooks Wild oats: or, the strolling gentlemen. A comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. By John O'Keefe, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4264
eBooks Limits and Renewals https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3284
eBooks A sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: at their anniversary meeting in the parish-church of St Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, February 18. 1731. By George Berkeley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4172
eBooks The Peckham frolic: or Nell Gwyn. A comedy: in three acts. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5111
eBooks The true method of reducing ruptures: and retaining them in the abdomen, and in the navel: ... To which is added, a postscript. By Robert Brand, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5564
eBooks An elegy written on Saint Mark's eve https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3321
eBooks The female officer: or the humours of the army, a comedy. Altered from Shadwell. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3327
eBooks The new Bath guide: or, memoirs of the B-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3364
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5335
eBooks The history of Tom White: the postilion. Part I. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3998
eBooks Reflections critical and satyrical, upon a late rhapsody call'd, An essay upon criticism: By Mr. Dennis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4151
eBooks A naturalist's calendar, with observations in various branches of natural history; extracted from the papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4044
eBooks Wives as they were: and maids as they are, a comedy, in five acts. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. By Mrs. Inchbald. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3825
eBooks Female empire: or, winter celebrated at London https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3352
eBooks The ghost: By the author. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3552
eBooks Original papers: containing the secret history of Great Britain, from the restoration, to the accession of the House of Hannover. ... The whole arranged and published by James Macpherson, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4791
eBooks Emma Corbett: or, the miseries of civil war. Founded on some recent circumstances which happened in America. By the author of Liberal opinions, Pupil of pleasure, Shenstone Green, &c. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3373
eBooks A letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. In answer to his speech on the late proclamation. By Thomas PaineLetter to Mr. Henry Dundas https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3715
eBooks Family secrets: literary and domestic. By Mr. Pratt. In five volumes. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4705
eBooks Dracula https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3208
eBooks An enquiry concerning the principles of morals: By David Hume, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3635
eBooks An answer to The tale of a nettle: Written by D. D'Foe. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3328
eBooks The age of reason: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology, by Thomas Paine. ...Age of reason. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3513
eBooks The history of Mr. Fantom: the new fashioned philosopher and his man William. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3997
eBooks Discourse of Western PlantingA particuler discourse concerning the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties that are like to growe to this realme of Englande by the westerne discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584 : known as disc... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3115
eBooks Such things are: a play, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. By Mrs. Inchbald. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4188
eBooks A prospect of societyTraveller https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5372
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.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3835
eBooks Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3369
eBooks The conduct of Christians made the sport of infidels: In a letter from a Turkish merchant at Amsterdam to the Grand Mufti at Constantinople: ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4489
eBooks An enquiry into the exility of the vessels in a human body: wherein animal identity is explained, and shewn incommunicable to any individual throughout the whole species. By Clifton Wintrinham, jun. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5619
eBooks Two letters from Mr. Burke to gentlemen in the city of Bristol: on the bills depending in parliament relative to the trade of Ireland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4237
eBooks Great men and their environment https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3122
eBooks Zoonomia: or, the laws of organic life. ... By Erasmus Darwin, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4950
eBooks The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5603
eBooks Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards. By John MacDonald, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4747
eBooks The flitch of bacon; a comic opera: in two acts: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. By the Rev. Hen. Bate. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4273
eBooks Modern times: or the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. Supposed to be written by himself. In imitation of Gil Blas. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4823
eBooks Arguments about the alteration of triennial elections of Parliament. In a letter to a friend in the country https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3618
eBooks The orphan of China: a tragedy, as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4137
eBooks The King in the country. A dramatic piece, in two acts. Acted at the Theatres-Royal, at Richmond and Windsor, 1788 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3799
eBooks Five pastoral eclogues: the scenes of which are suppos'd to lie among the shepherds, oppress'd by the war in Germany https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3981
eBooks A farther argument against ennobling foreigners, in answer to the two parts of the State anatomy: with a short account of the anatomizer https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4498
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4099
eBooks The scarlet letter https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3258
eBooks The influence of piety on the public good. A sermon, preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, May 31. 1761, ... By Alexander Gerard, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3774
eBooks An enquiry into the advantage received by the first eight years inoculation https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5530