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eBooks An ode to the genius of scandal https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4081
eBooks Odes on several subjects https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3776
eBooks An heroic answer, from Richard Twiss, Esq: F.R.S. at Rotterdam, to Donna Teresa Pinna Ruiz, of Murica. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3991
eBooks The sermons of Mr. Yorick.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3782
eBooks The temple of fame: a vision. By Mr. Pope. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3700
eBooks Definition of a constitution: By Thomas Paine. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3507
eBooks The celebrated lecture on heads: which has been exhibited upwards of one hundred successive nights, to crouded audiences, and met with the most universal applause. ...Lecture on heads https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5413
eBooks Under the Deodars https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3281
eBooks An affectionate address to passionate professors: shewing the blessedness of a meek and quiet spirit: the evil of giving way to bad tempers and sinful passions: and pointing out some remedies for subduing them. By W. Mason https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4661
eBooks The triumph of prudence over passion: or, the history of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald. By the authoress of Emeline. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5676
eBooks The lady's revenge: or, the rover reclaim'd. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4011
eBooks The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. [pt.5]Iliad. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4378
eBooks The monk: a romance. In three volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5168
eBooks The spoil'd child: in two acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4339
eBooks Mr. Maitland's account of inoculating the small pox: vindicated, from Dr. Wagstaffe's misrepresentations of that practice; with some remarks on Mr. Massey's sermon. The second edition. To which is added, his first account of inoculating the small ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4072
eBooks A sermon preach'd to the people: at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh; on the subject of the Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4670
eBooks Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772: on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. ... By William Gilpin, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4829
eBooks Essays moral and philosophical, on several subjects: viz. A view of the human faculties. ... An essay on self-love. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4908
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.8] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5341
eBooks An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body, by James Earle, Esq; F.R.S. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5596
eBooks Mr. Burke's speech, on the 1st December 1783: upon the question for the Speaker's leaving the chair, in order for the House to resolve itself into a committee on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4069
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/20.500.14106/5041
eBooks 'Twas The Night Before ChristmasA Visit from St. Nicholas https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3305
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4591
eBooks Wuthering Heights https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3144
eBooks The Watsons https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3065
eBooks Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain: during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom. By Richard Cumberland. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5005
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4882
eBooks A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord: on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of Parliament. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3621
eBooks The register-office: a farce of two acts. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By J. Reed. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3424
eBooks Edgar and Emmeline: a fairy tale: in a dramatic entertainment of two acts; ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3912
eBooks Alzuma: a tragedy. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3832
eBooks An answer to a pamphlet entituled, An argument to prove the affections of the people of England to be the best security of the government. By the author of The free-holder https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4691
eBooks A letter to T----- P----, Esq; from the author of Siris: Containing some farther remarks on the virtues of tar-water, and the methods for preparing and using of it. To which is added, an answer to a supposed physician's letter to the ... bishop of... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4767
eBooks Case, Mr. Macklin late of Covent-Garden Theatre, against Mess. Clarke, Aldys, Lee, James, and Miles https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3502
eBooks The contemplatist: a night piece. By J. Cunningham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4669
eBooks The enchanter: or, love and magic. A musical drama. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The music composed by Mr. Smith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3920
eBooks Lines written in the album, at Cossey-Hall, Norfolk, the seat of Sir William Jerningham, Bart. August 4th, 1786 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4402
eBooks The hills of Hybla: being a collection of original poems. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3367
eBooks France at War https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3273
eBooks A brief state of the question between the printed and painted callicoes: and the woollen and silk manufacture, as far as it relates to the wearing and using of printed and painted callicoes in Great-Britain. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3456
eBooks Memoirs: of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington, wife to the Rev. Mr. Matthew Pilkington. Written by herself. Wherein are occasionally interspersed, all her poems; with anecdotes of several eminent persons, living and dead. Among others, Dean Swift, Alexander... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5270
eBooks Caesar's camp: or, St. George's Hill. A poem. By the Reverend Mr. Duck, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3812
eBooks The fool of quality: or, the history of Henry Earl of Moreland. In four volumes. By Mr. Brooke. [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5625
eBooks The rise of Silas Lapham https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3157
eBooks A view of Northumberland with an excursion to the abbey of Mailross in Scotland. By W. Hutchinson: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4836
eBooks Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorn'd with sculpturesMetamorphoses. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4911
eBooks The road to ruin: a comedy. As acted at the London and Dublin theatres. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4953
eBooks Mayor of Casterbridge https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3116
eBooks An account of the medicinal virtues of magnesia alba: more particularly of calcined magnesia; ... By Thomas Henry, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5552