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eBooks Atheism refuted: in a discourse to prove the existence of a God. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3709
eBooks An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn: and a proposal for some regulations concerning felons in prison, and the good effects to be expected from them. ... By B. Mandeville, M.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4388
eBooks A philosophical essay on man: Being an attempt to investigate the principles and laws of the reciprocal influence of the soul on the body. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4089
eBooks The deserted daughter: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5115
eBooks Natural history: general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 260 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. [pt.8]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5063
eBooks Dr. Goldsmith's Roman history abridged by himself for the use of schoolsRoman history. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5325
eBooks The fair Hibernian: In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5663
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3372
eBooks Of the characters of women: an epistle to a lady. By Mr. Pope https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3690
eBooks The walking statue: or, the devil in the wine-cellar. A comedy, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3492
eBooks The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was born in Newgate, ... Written from her own memorandumsFortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4506
eBooks Clarissa: Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. ... Published by the editor of Pamela. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4358
eBooks The captive: a comic opera; as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4411
eBooks Varieties of religious experience: a study in human nature https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3123
eBooks Money answers all things https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3187
eBooks The occasional miscellany, in prose and verse: Consisting of, a variety of letters, written originally to a young gentleman who design'd to go into Holy Orders, ... By John Wallis,. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4881
eBooks Natural history: general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 260 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. [pt.2]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5060
eBooks Case of a fracture of the sternum: by John Hale, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5527
eBooks The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated: in a dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; on the one part, and his learned council on the other. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3679
eBooks The end of oppression: being a dialogue between an old mechanic and a young one. Concerning the establishment of the rights of man. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3648
eBooks The court ballad: By Mr. Pope. To the tune of, To all you ladies now at land, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3668
eBooks The mogul tale: or, the descent of the balloon. A farce. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5024
eBooks A short treatise on the English tongue: Being an attempt to render the reading and pronunciation of the same more easy to foreigners. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3740
eBooks The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5074
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3432
eBooks Prologue to the court: on the Queen's birth-day, 1704. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3309
eBooks Literary memoirs of living authors of Great Britain: arranged according to an alphabetical catalogue ... and including a list of their works, with occasional opinions upon their literary character. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4638
eBooks From Sea to Sea https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3296
eBooks Essays, moral and political https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3632
eBooks The man of the world: A comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatres-Royal of Covent-Garden and Smock-Alley ... Written by Charles Macklin, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4033
eBooks Modern times: or the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. Supposed to be written by himself. In imitation of Gil Blas. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4822
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/20.500.14106/5045
eBooks The Scottish village: or, Pitcairne Green. A poem. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5137
eBooks Fugitive pieces: Written by J. P. Kemble. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5068
eBooks An elegy on the death of the Honourable Sir William Jones: a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal, and President of the Asiatic Society. By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3915
eBooks Violenta: or the rewards of virtue: turn'd from Boccace into verse. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4885
eBooks An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain: With a comparison between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small-pox. ... By James Jurin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5586
eBooks Braganza: A tragedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Written by Robert Jephson, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3891
eBooks Medical advice to the consumptive and asthmatic people of England: wherein the present method of treating disorders of the lungs is shewn to be futile and fundamentally wrong, and a new and easy method of cure, proposed by Philip Stern, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5524
eBooks The deaf lover: a farce in two acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. Written by F. Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3610
eBooks The poetical calendar: Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry: ... by the most eminent hands. Intended as a supplement to Mr. Dodsley's collection. Written and selected by Francis Fawkes, M. A. and William Woty. In twelve ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5363
eBooks Patrick in Prussia: or, love in a camp; a comic opera, in two acts, with all the original songs; as performed at the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden and Smock Alley. Being a sequel to The poor soldier. Written by John O'Keeffe, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3472
eBooks The Grecian daughter: a tragedy: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3464
eBooks Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr. Ward: Together with an introduction, &c. By John Page, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5549
eBooks The triumph of benevolence: occasioned by the national design of erecting a monument to John Howard, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4232
eBooks Airs, ballads, &c. in The blackamoor wash'd white. A new comic opera. As it will be performed this evening at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-LaneBlackamoor wash'd white. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4694
eBooks Just So Stories for Little Children https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3278
eBooks Departmental Ditties and other verses https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3269
eBooks The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett: well known to the public, as the lame beggar-man, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4621
eBooks The modern poetasters: or, directors no conjurers. A farce. On the famous ode writers, satyrists, panegyrists, &c. of the present times; ... Written by Isaac Bickerstaff, jun. Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5287