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eBooks The Carolina housewife or, House and home : by a lady of Charleston https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3182
eBooks The golden verses of Pythagoras: Translated from the Greek, by N. Rowe, Esq; With A poem on the late glorious successes, &c. and an Ode for the New-Year, MDCCXVI. By the same hand. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3984
eBooks Annus mirabilis: or, the wonderful effects of the approaching conjunction of the planets Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. By Abraham Gunter, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4983
eBooks Anglo-Saxon poetic records https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3009
eBooks The literary life of the late Thomas Pennant, Esq. By himself https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3571
eBooks The Athenaid: a poem, by the author of Leonidas. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4812
eBooks The recruiting serjeant: a musical entertainment as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4150
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/20.500.14106/5370
eBooks An essay on the force of imagination in pregnant women: Addressed to the ladies. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5520
eBooks The natural history of British birds: or, a selection of the most rare, beautiful, and interesting birds which inhabit this country: the descriptions from the Systema naturæ of Linnæus; with general observations, either original, or collected ... ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4851
eBooks An account of a surprizing meteor: seen in the air March 19. 1718/19. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the original letters of those who saw it in different places. ... By William Whiston, M.A. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3809
eBooks Shakespear illustrated: or the novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. In two volumes. By the author of The female Quixote. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5233
eBooks Proceedings in the House of Commons on the slave trade, and state of the negroes in the West India islands. With an appendix. By Philip Francis, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4123
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3434
eBooks Adventures of Huckleberry Finn https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3225
eBooks A new method for discovering the longitude both at sea and land: humbly proposed to the consideration of the publick. By William Whiston, ... and Humphry Ditton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4047
eBooks Mr. Pope's literary correspondence. Volume the third. With letters to, and, from the Duke of Shrewsberry, Lord Lansdowne,: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3660
eBooks Practical rules of diet in the various constitutions and diseases of human bodies: By John Arbuthnot, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5173
eBooks The captive of Spilburg in two acts: as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, altered from the favourite French drama called Le souterrain, with a preface by the translator. The music by Dussek. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3815
eBooks The wives revenged: a comic opera, in one act. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3930
eBooks The musical tour of Mr. Dibdin: in which ... previous to his embarkation for India ... he finished his career as a public character. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5355
eBooks The ladies elegant jester, or fun for the female sex; being a chaste and delicate selection of good things, ... together with many originals, by Ann Sophia Radcliffe https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4398
eBooks Paine's address to the republic of France; September 25, 1792 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3707
eBooks A full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge by poison: on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller; with a faithful copy of his last will and testament. Publish'd by an eye witness. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3680
eBooks The natural history of birds: From the French of the Count de Buffon. Illustrated with engravings; and a preface, notes, and additions, by the translator. In nine volumes. ... [pt.4]Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5243
eBooks Oculus Britanniæ: an heroi-panegyrical poem on the university of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful similes, and useful digressions. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4778
eBooks A collection of original papers and material transactions, concerning the late great affair of the union between England and Scotland: Also an exact journal of the proceedings of the treaty as well at London as in Edinburgh. Wherein the privilege ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5455
eBooks The last will and testament of Alexander Pope: of Twickenham, Esq; to which is added, an inscription wrote by himself. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3467
eBooks Neck or nothing, a farce: In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4045
eBooks Rebellion extinguished: a thanksgiving-sermon, preached at Barton under-Neewood, in the county of Stafford, October the 9th, 1746. On account of the deliverance of these kingdoms from the calamities of an intestine war. By Thomas Vaughan, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4877
eBooks The necessity and usefulness of the dispensaries lately set up by the College of Physicians in London, for the use of the sick poor. Together with an answer to all the objections rais'd against them by the apothecaries, or others https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5633
eBooks The rivals: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4130
eBooks The ghost: Book IV. By C. Churchill. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3752
eBooks Hannah Hewit: or, the female Crusoe. Being the history of a woman of uncommon, mental, and personal accomplishments; who, ... was cast away in the Grosvenor East-Indiaman: and became for three years the sole inhabitant of an island, in the South S... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4893
eBooks The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, œconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4807
eBooks A letter to Lord Onslow: as chairman of the meeting at Epsom, June 18, 1792, convened to address His Majesty on the late proclamation. By Thomas Paine. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3470
eBooks The cure of Saul: A sacred ode. Written by Dr. Brown. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3960
eBooks A collection of poems on various subjects: By Thomas Ellwood. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3365
eBooks Heads of Mr. Francis's speech, in the House of Commons, on the 7th of May, 1793, on Mr. Grey's motion for a reform in Parliament https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4722
eBooks The Quaker; a comic opera: As performed at the Theare-Royal [sic] in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4259
eBooks Rewards and Fairies https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3294
eBooks A wife in the right: a comedy. By Mrs. Griffith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5110
eBooks The pleasures of melancholy. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4092
eBooks Spanish memoirs: in a series of original letters. Containing the history of Donna Isabella della Villarea, ... Published by the author of Maria, or the generous rustic. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4962
eBooks Joanna of Montfaucon: a dramatic romance of the fourteenth century: as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Formed upon the plan of the German drama of Kotzebue: and adapted to the English stage by Richard Cumberland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4285
eBooks The principles of bridges: containing the mathematical demonstrations of the properties of the arches, the thickness of the piers, the force of the water against them, &c. ... By Cha. Hutton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4122
eBooks Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5227
eBooks A short account of a late short administration https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3530
eBooks Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3794
eBooks The adventures of Hugh Trevor: By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4451