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eBooks Arminius: or the champion of liberty, a tragedy. With an historical preface. By Arthur Murphy, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3514
eBooks The history of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis: By the editor of Chrysal. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5660
eBooks Irish tales: or, instructive histories for the happy conduct of life. ... By Mrs. Sarah Butler. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5032
eBooks The times: A poem. By [blank] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4216
eBooks High life below stairs: A farce. Written by David Garrick, Esq. Taken from the manager's book at the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5056
eBooks The life of the Lady Jane Gray: With some remarks on the play. In a letter to a friend. By William Rufus Chetwood. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3349
eBooks The levellers: or, Satan's Privy-Council. A Pasquinade, in three cantos. The author, Hugh Hudibras, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4913
eBooks The days of yore: a drama in three acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Richard Cumberland, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3508
eBooks The absurdity and perfidy of all authoritative toleration of gross heresy: blasphemy, idolatry, popery, in Britain. In two letters to a friend. ... By John Brown, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4698
eBooks The difference, between words, esteemed synonymous: in the English language; and, the proper choice of them determined: together with, so much of Abbé Girard's Treatise, on this subject, as would agree, with our mode of expression. ... In two volu... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5236
eBooks An account of a particular kind of rupture, frequently attendant upon new-born children: and sometimes met with in adults; viz. that in which the intestine, ... is found in the same cavity, and in contact with the testicle. By Percival Pott, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5518
eBooks The celebrated speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq: in Westminster-Hall, on the 3d, 6th, 10th, and 13th of June, 1788, on his summing up the evidence on the Begum charge against Warren Hastings, Esquire. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3500
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.7] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5255
eBooks Remarks on the final cessation of the menses: and on a remedy and method of treatment, adapted to prevent or remove the evil consequences attending that period: together with some strictures on secret and advertised medicines in general. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5548
eBooks Roman portraits, a poem, in heroick verse; with historical remarks and illustrations: by Robert Jephson, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3826
eBooks Letters from Yorick to Eliza https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3784
eBooks An enquiry into the nature, causes, and method of cure, of nervous disorders: In a letter to a friend. By Alex. Thomson, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5537
eBooks The prophecy of famine. A Scots pastoral: By C. Churchill. Inscribed to John Wilkes, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4110
eBooks Dangers incidental to the clerical character: stated, in a sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, at Great St. Mary's Church, on Sunday July 5th, being commencement Sunday, by William Paley, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4618
eBooks A sermon preach'd before the Archbishop, bishops, and clergy, of the province of Canterbury ... at the cathedral church of St. Paul, on ... February 10. 1700. By W. Hayley, ... Done into English from the Latin original, by W. Jones, A.BConcio ad s... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3482
eBooks Notes upon the twelve books of Paradise lost: Collected from the Spectator. Written by Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4729
eBooks Management: a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Frederick Reynolds. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3803
eBooks The genuine arguments of the council, with the opinion of the Court of King's Bench, on cause shewn, why an information should not be exhibited against John Stephen James, Joseph Clarke, Esqrs. Ralph Aldus ... William Augustus Miles, James Sparks,... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4056
eBooks Remarks, critical and illustrative, on the text and notes of the last edition of Shakspeare https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4156
eBooks The doctor and the apothecary: A musical entertainment in two acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5170
eBooks The progress of wit: a caveat. For the use of an eminent writer. By a fellow of All-Souls. To which is prefix'd, an explanatory discourse to the reader. By Gamaliel Gunson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5261
eBooks A school for fathers: A comic opera. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4162
eBooks Romances, by I. D'Israeli https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4344
eBooks A sermon preached before the honourable trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America, and the associates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray: ... March 16, 1749-50. In the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster. By Thomas Francklin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4171
eBooks Wit's last stake. A farce: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4247
eBooks Appearance is against them: in a series of letters, in three volumes, by the author of Emily Herbert, or perfidy punished. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5497
eBooks Select Scotish ballads.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4290
eBooks Pamela: or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: and afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality, ... The third and fourth volumes. ... By the edito... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4929
eBooks The London adviser and guide: containing every instruction and information useful and necessary to persons living in London, and coming to reside there; ... By the Rev. Dr. Trusler. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4771
eBooks Four dissertations. I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard of taste. By David Hume, esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3636
eBooks Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France: from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4517
eBooks Bounce to Fop: An heroick epistle from a dog at Twickenham to a dog at court. By Dr. S----t. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3665
eBooks The relief, or, day thoughts: a poem. Occasioned by The Complaint, or night thoughts. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holderness. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3558
eBooks The Earl of Warwick, a tragedy: as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4423
eBooks Hearts of oak https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5245
eBooks The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, ... Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: ... By an impartial hand.... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4381
eBooks Practical husbandry: or, the art of farming, with a certainty of gain: as practised by judicious farmers in this country. ... By Dr. John Trusler, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4483
eBooks Observations on the state of the highways, and on the laws for amending and keeping them in repair: with a draught of a bill for comprehending and reducing into one act of parliament the most essential parts of all the statutes in force relating t... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4840
eBooks The campaign: a poem, to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. By Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3499
eBooks The poetical works: of Will. Shenstone. In two volumes. With the life of the author, and a description of the Leasowes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5260
eBooks Reasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's full answer in a letter to P.T.P. By the author of The minute philosopher https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4481
eBooks The history of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... [pt.7]Sir Charles Grandison https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3528
eBooks A petition to the Right Hon. Mr. --, in favour of Mr. Maclean: By a lady. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4900
eBooks LiederSongs https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3227
eBooks Sketches among the poor https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3111