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eBooks Of the torments of Hell: the foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4417
eBooks A vindication of the British Colonies: against the aspersions of the Halifax gentleman, in his letter to a Rhode Island friend https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3178
eBooks The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of YORKE. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5698
eBooks The arte of rhetorique: for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3153
eBooks Moral tales in verse: founded on real events. Written by Thomas Hull, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4752
eBooks Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution. Second edition. By Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3720
eBooks A tour in Wales. MDCCLXX: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5178
eBooks A discourse concerning the action of the sun and moon on animal bodies; and the influence which this may have in many diseases. By Richard Mead, M.D. ... In two partsDe imperio solis ac lunæ in corpora humana. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5611
eBooks The Merchant of Venice. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5715
eBooks An essay on cutaneous diseases, and all impurities of the skin. Proposing a specific, and, method of cure. By John Gowland, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5618
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4100
eBooks A brief survey of the legal liberties of the dissenters: and how far the bill now depending consists with preserving the toleration inviolably: wherein the present bill is published; and also the Toleration Act at large, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4429
eBooks Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also, an appendix, containing such articles on the subject, as have been omitted by that author. By John... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5290
eBooks Curiosities in the Tower of London.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5027
eBooks Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace: in a series of letters. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4214
eBooks A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal: the next day after her death: to one Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4552
eBooks Anna St. Ives: a novel. By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5252
eBooks The present uncertainty in the knowledge of med'cines, in a letter to the physicians in the Commission for sick and wounded seamen. With a postscript to physicians, shewing the necessity of a true theory of diseases. By W. Corkburn, M.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5607
eBooks Edward and Eleonora. A tragedy: As it was to have been acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Mr. Thomson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3539
eBooks Rosamond: An opera. Humbly inscrib'd to Her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3421
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/20.500.14106/5052
eBooks Timanthes: a tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. By John Hoole. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3616
eBooks A new comedy. Love a-al-a-mode [sic] in two acts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5034
eBooks One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. A dialogue something like Horace. By Mr. Pope https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3693
eBooks Comus: a mask presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3192
eBooks Daisy Miller https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3147
eBooks The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes: With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. ... By Will. Whiston, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4879
eBooks Public good: being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the same. To which is added, proposals for laying off a new state, to be applied as a fund for carrying on the w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5499
eBooks A select collection of poems: with notes, biographical and historical.: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4777
eBooks Arabian nightsThe Arabian Nights https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3074
eBooks An argument, shewing, that the Prince of Wales, tho' a Protestant, has no just pretensions to the crown of England. With some remarks on the late pretended discovery of a design to steal him away https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5058
eBooks An essay upon the trade to Africa, in order to set the merits of that cause in a true light and bring the disputes between the African Company and the separate traders into a narrower compass https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4811
eBooks Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: The design of which is plainly to demonstrate the reality and perfection of humane knowlege, the incorporeal nature of the soul, and the immediate providence of a deity: in opposition to sceptics and at... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4633
eBooks Two Years Before the Mast https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3079
eBooks Aboriginal America https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3062
eBooks Destroyers at Jutland https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3279
eBooks The history of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary. With appendixes of original papers. By John Pinkerton. In two volumes.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4786
eBooks An inquiry into the Copernican system respecting the motions of the heavenly bodies, wherein it is proved, in the clearest manner, that the earth has only her diurnal motion, and that the sun revolves round the world; ... By John Cunningham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4004
eBooks Beggar's opera. Libretto.The beggar's opera John Gay's The beggar's opera https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3257
eBooks A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. By a friend to the sisterhood. In three volumes.: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4728
eBooks The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman: ... [pt.1]Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3791
eBooks An essay on man: In epistles to a friend. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5486
eBooks An essay on the nature and method of treating the gout https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5528
eBooks A King or a Consul? A new song to the tune of Derry down https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5462
eBooks The life of Sir Walter Ralegh: from his birth to his death on the scaffold: ... The whole compiled from the most approved authorities and curious manuscripts. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5248
eBooks Memoirs of the court of France, and city of Paris: containing the intrigues of that court, and the characters of the ministers of state, and other officers; together with the occurrences of the town. In two parts. Translated from the FrenchMémoire... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5019
eBooks Sympathy: or, a sketch of the social passion. A poem. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5023
eBooks Some observations concerning the plague: occasioned by, and with some reference to the late ingenious discourse of the learned Dr. Mead, concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to prevent it. By a well-wisher to the publick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5682
eBooks The task: a poem, in six books. By William Cowper, ... To which are added, by the same author, An epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. ... To which are added, ... an epistle ... and the history of John Gilpin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3795
eBooks Dissertation on first-principles of government: by Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3712