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eBooks An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty: for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, ... By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4590
eBooks Some passages from the history of the Chomley family; The deserted mansion ; A fear for the future https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3040
eBooks A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion: and the methods to be used to prevent it. By Richard Mead, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5612
eBooks The view of Hindoostan.: [pt.3]Outlines of the globe https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5316
eBooks The Muse Among the Motors https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3287
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.7] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5340
eBooks An account of the nature, properties, and medicinal uses, of the mineral water at Nottington, near Weymouth, Dorset. By John Crane, ... With a view of the well, in it's present state https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5650
eBooks Rosina: a comic opera, in two acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4960
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4097
eBooks Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape: to which is added a poem, on landscape painting. By William Gilpin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4831
eBooks The case of impotency as debated in England: in that remarkable tryal an. 1613. between Robert, Earl of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard, who, after eight years marriage, commenc'd a suit against him for impotency. ... Written by George Abbot, .... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4619
eBooks To the noblemen, gentlemen and proprietors of lands in Scotland, and inhabitants at large https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5482
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF Troylus and Cressida. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5728
eBooks The memoirs of an English officer: who serv'd in the Dutch war in 1672. to the peace of Utrecht, in 1713. ... By Capt. George Carleton. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3315
eBooks The adventures of Anthony Varnish: or, a peep at the manners of society. By an adept. In three volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5632
eBooks Maxims, observations, and reflections: moral, political, and divine. By Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4730
eBooks Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England, from its origin to the introduction of the Linnæan system: By Richard Pulteney, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4664
eBooks The case of dissenters as affected by the late bill proposed in Parliament, for preventing occasional conformity. By a gentleman https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3936
eBooks The sixth epistle of the first book of Horace: by Mr. Pope. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3493
eBooks The battle of Hastings: a tragedy. By Richard Cumberland, Esq; As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3834
eBooks Memoirs of his own life: by Tate Wilkinson, ... In four volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5146
eBooks Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants. By Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3875
eBooks An essay upon nursing: and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. By a physician. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital. Published by order of the General Committee ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5515
eBooks The tears of genius: Occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith. By Courtney Melmoth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4206
eBooks The beauties of Sterne: including all his pathetic tales, and most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the heart of sensibility. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3783
eBooks The delicate distress, a novel: in letters. In two volumes. By Frances. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3519
eBooks Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic or Erse language https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4688
eBooks Can such things be https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3067
eBooks Fingal: an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5164
eBooks General view of the agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire: with observations on the means of its improvement. By Messrs. Rennie, Broun, and Shirreff. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4055
eBooks A description of the road from London to Bath and Bristol: with every thing worth notice in the way. By the Rev. Dr. Trusler. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5475
eBooks Areopagitica https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3128
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4528
eBooks Epistle to a friend: on the death of John Thornton, Esq. By the author of "An epistle to an eminent painter.". https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4820
eBooks The adventures of Roderick Random: In two volumes. ... [pt.2]Adventures of Roderick Random https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4295
eBooks A determination of the average depression of the price of wheat in war, below that of the preceding peace; and of its readvance in the following; ... By J. Brand, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3903
eBooks Essays in radical empiricism https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3120
eBooks Shamela https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3195
eBooks An authentic narrative of the loss of the Doddington Indiaman: and of the adventures of those on board who survived the shipwreck; from the journal of one of the surviving officers. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3881
eBooks A sermon preached at Chart Sutton, Kent, the third of November, 1782: at the opening of the new church; ... To which are annexed, a list of the subscribers, and an account of the money received by the brief towards rebuilding the said church. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4169
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/20.500.14106/5053
eBooks Lady Susan https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3063
eBooks Verses to the memory of Garrick: Spoken as a monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4220
eBooks A sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy: in the cathedral church of St. Paul, on Friday May 6th, 1763. By Thomas Francklin, ... To which is annexed, a list of the annual amount of the collection for this charity, from the year 1721. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4955
eBooks An address to young ministers. By John Brown, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4887
eBooks The meridian sun of liberty; or, the whole rights of man displayed and most accurately defined, in a lecture read at the Philosophical Society in Newcastle, on the 8th of November, 1775, ... To which is now first prefixed, by way of preface, a mos... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3647
eBooks The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon, Esq; ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4642
eBooks A discourse concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3173
eBooks The shoemakers' holiday https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3007
eBooks Passages selected by distinguished personages: on the great literary trial of Vortigern and Rowena; a comi-tragedy. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5232