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eBooks A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's antimonial drops. The second edition. To which is added, a catalogue of cures, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in feversShort essay on the singular virtues of an highly exalted preparatio... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5560
eBooks Tracts in divinity: By W. Hawkins, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5118
eBooks Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c: By an English officer. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4716
eBooks The excursionExcursion https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3137
eBooks A further search into the conduct of the allies: and the late ministry, as to peace and war. Containing also a reply to the several letters and memorials of the States-General. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4425
eBooks Discourses on scripture mysteries: preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, before the University, in the year 1787; ... By William Hawkins, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4608
eBooks The power of water-dock against the scurvy: whether in the plain root or essence. With marks to know that disease in all its states; instances of its being mistaken for other disorders; and rules of life for those afflicted with it. By J. Hill, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5556
eBooks A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. By a friend to the sisterhood. In three volumes.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4726
eBooks Alwyn: or the gentleman comedian. In two volumes. ...: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3756
eBooks Henry and Emma, a new poetical interlude: altered from Prior's Nut brown maid, with additions and a new air and chorus, (the music by Dr. Arne.) As performed on ... April 13, 1774, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4605
eBooks The history and description of the famous cathedral of St. Paul's, London: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5021
eBooks The Isle of Wight: a poem, in three cantos. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4008
eBooks An essay upon loans: or, an argument proving that substantial funds settled by Parliament, ... will bring in loans of money to the Exchequer, in spight of all the conspiracies of parties to the contrary; ... By the author of the Essay upon credit. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4331
eBooks The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5727
eBooks An essay at removing national prejudices against a Union with Scotland. To be continued during the treaty here. Part IEssay at removing national prejudices against a Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4548
eBooks The old Whig. Numb. II: With remarks upon The plebeian, No II. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5430
eBooks Amoretti and Epithalamion https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3201
eBooks The life and death of King Richard the Second. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5719
eBooks A letter to R----- B----- Esq; author of the new comedy called The wishes: now in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4309
eBooks The choleric fathers: A comic opera. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Thomas Holcroft. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3896
eBooks Pamela: or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel, to her parents. ... In two volumes. The third edition. To which are prefixed, extracts from several curious letters written to the editor on the subject. .... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4930
eBooks Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends. With a fragment in the manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix'd, memoirs of his life and family. Written by himself. And published by his daughter, Mrs. Medalle. In three... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3789
eBooks The essence of the Douglas cause: To which is subjoined, some observations on a pamphlet lately published, intitled, Considerations on the Douglas cause. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5088
eBooks Memoirs of his own life: by Tate Wilkinson, ... In four volumes. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5149
eBooks Justification by Christ alone: (a fountain of life and comfort.) Declaring that the whole work of man's salvation was accomplished by Jesus Christ upon the Cross, ... Written by Samuel Richardson, in the year 1647. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4980
eBooks Birch for Peter Pindar, Esq: A burlesque poem. By Pindaromastix. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3535
eBooks An essay on the most efficacious means of treating ulcerated legs: In which the topical applications in general use are considered, and some new methods for relief proposed; ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5535
eBooks The invisible man https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3054
eBooks Journal of a voyage to New South Wales: with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, ... and other natural productions by John White ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4941
eBooks The triumphs of temper: a poem. In six cantos. By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3595
eBooks A general plan for laying out towns and townships, on the new-acquired lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote cultivation, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3901
eBooks The mysteries of Udolpho: a romance; interspersed with some pieces of poetry. By Ann Radcliffe, ... In four volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4395
eBooks An easy way to prolong life: by a little attention to our manner of living. Containing many salutary observations, on exercise, rest, sleep, evacuations, &c. ... And some remarks on drunkenness, smoking, and on the utility of taking physic in the ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5531
eBooks The golden age https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3234
eBooks Anne of Green Gables https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3243
eBooks The citizen of the world: or letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5322
eBooks A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3797
eBooks Love in the East; or, adventures of twelve hours: a comic opera, in three acts. Written by the author of The strangers at home. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4025
eBooks The tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4230
eBooks More ways than one: a comedy, as acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4459
eBooks The rights of man: first published in the year 1783. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4129
eBooks An historical tragedy of the civil wars: in the reign of King Henry VI. (Being a sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a introduction to the Tragical history of King Richard III.) Alter'd from Shakespear, in the year 1720. By Th... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3993
eBooks The plain dealer: being select essays on several curious subjects: relating to friendship, ... poetry, and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now first collected into two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5200
eBooks A trip to the moon: Containing an account of the island of Noibla. Its inhabitants, religious and political customs, &c. By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5093
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4518
eBooks A letter to the Right Honourable William Windham, on the intemperance and dangerous tendency of his public conduct. By Thomas Holcroft https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4414
eBooks De cive: containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes in which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist togethe... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3118
eBooks The mercer, or fatal extravagance: being a true narrative of the life of Mr. Wm. Dennis. Mercer, in Cheapside, London. ... Written by Mrs. Charke, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4488
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.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5310
eBooks Two strings to your bow: a farce, in two acts, as now performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with distinguished applause. By Robert Jephson, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4239