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eBooks An historical and geographical description of Formosa: an island subject to the Emperor of Japan. ... To which is prefix'd, a preface in vindication of himself from the reflections of a Jesuit ... By George Psalmanaazaar, ... Illustrated with seve... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3463
eBooks Alonzo: A tragedy. In five acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3933
eBooks Liberal opinions, upon animals, man, and providence: In which are introduced, Anecdotes of a gentleman. ... By Courtney Melmoth. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5380
eBooks An attempt towards an apology for his R---- H------ the D---- https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4342
eBooks An essay on Pope's Odyssey: in which some particular beauties and blemishes of that work are consider'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3350
eBooks Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington Vols 1 and 2 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3076
eBooks The pleasures of imagination: A poem. In three books. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4279
eBooks A mechanical enquiry into the nature, causes, seat, and cure of the diabetes: With an explication of the most remarkable symptoms. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5668
eBooks Youth. A poem: By Hall Hartson, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3628
eBooks To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with the tragedy of Cato. Nov. 1714. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his picture of the King https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4226
eBooks The adventures of Anthony Varnish: or, a peep at the manners of society. By an adept. In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5631
eBooks The beauties of English poesy: Selected by Oliver Goldsmith. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5319
eBooks The bee: Being essays on the most interesting subjects. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5194
eBooks The dram-shop; or a peep into a prisonGin-shop; or, a peep into a prison https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5423
eBooks Elements of criticism: In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3917
eBooks The life of Milton: in three parts. To which are added, Conjectures on the origin of Paradise lost: with an appendix. By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5013
eBooks The maid of Kent. A comedy: acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4606
eBooks Practical hints on opium considered as a poison: By R. Hamilton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5652
eBooks A letter from a Right Honourable person. And the answer to it: translated into verse, ... With notes historical, critical, political, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4014
eBooks The honest farmer. A drama, in five acts, to which are added, Vanity punished, and Blind-man's buff. By M. Berquin,Honnête fermier. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4903
eBooks Among the Railway Folk https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3293
eBooks Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia: with views of peace and war at home and abroad. To which is added Humanity; or the rights of nature. A poem, revised and corrected. By Mr. Pratt. [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4703
eBooks Remarks on Dr. Leake's paper on the use of his forceps https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5685
eBooks Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman: By William Godwin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4783
eBooks Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation: By Thomas Paine, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3713
eBooks Christmas storms and sunshine https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3095
eBooks The inflexible captive: A tragedy. By Miss Hannah More. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4003
eBooks A learned dissertation on dumpling: its dignity, antiquity, and excellence. With a word upon pudding. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5090
eBooks The Pantheonites. A dramatic entertainment. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4889
eBooks The unsex'd females: a poem, addressed to the author of the Pursuits of literature https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3251
eBooks A short view of the present state of the Protestant religion in Britain: as it is now profest in the episcopal church in England, the Presbyterian church in Scotland, and the dissenters in both. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4297
eBooks Poems, chiefly pastoral: By John Cunningham. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5003
eBooks Secrets worth knowing: a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. By Thomas Morton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4853
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/20.500.14106/4810
eBooks The singular case of a lady, who had the small-pox during pregnancy; and who communicated the same disease to the foetus: By W. Lynn, Surgeon. As read at the Royal Society in February 1786. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5644
eBooks Rimes https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5171
eBooks Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England, from its origin to the introduction of the Linnæan system: By Richard Pulteney, ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4665
eBooks The beggar's opera: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3520
eBooks A supplement to Hutton's arithmetic: containing the solutions, at full length, of the promiscuous collection of questions proposed in that work. By the authorSchool-master's guide: or, a complete system of practical arithmetic. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4255
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF Othello, the Moore of Venice. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5718
eBooks The triumph of Isis: a poem. Occasioned by Isis, an elegy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4233
eBooks Secular ode in commemoration of the glorious revolution, M DC LXXXVIII. By W. Mason, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5396
eBooks An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions: By the author of the essay on the principle of population. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4799
eBooks Life's Handicap https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3282
eBooks The lues venerea, rationally handled, in its original cause: with its cure. By J. A. surgeon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5642
eBooks Sir Eldred of the bower: and the bleeding rock: two legendary tales. By Miss Hannah More. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4403
eBooks A letter to the Honourable Thomas Erskine: on the prosecution of Thomas Williams, for publishing The age of reason. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3717
eBooks The Fringes of the Fleet https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3274
eBooks A treatise concerning the small-pox: In which a plain and easy method of curing that disease under its most direful symptoms, is discover'd. ... In a letter, written in the year 1716, to the learned Dr. John Bateman, ... by F. Bellinger, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5606
eBooks Calculations to determine at what point in the side of a hill its attraction will be the greatest, &c: By Charles Hutton, ... Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 11, 1779. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5143