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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Five Nations https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3272
eBooks Utopia https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3220
eBooks Henrietta: By the author of The female Quixote. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4563
eBooks Julia, a novel; interspersed with some poetical pieces. By Helen Maria Williams. In two volumes.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4503
eBooks Night: An epistle to Robert Lloyd. By the author. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4111
eBooks A letter to the Reverend Mr. Dean Swift, occasion'd by a satire said to be written by him, entitled, A dedication to a great man, ... By a sparkish pamphleteer of Button's Coffee-house https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5399
eBooks Matilda: a tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the author of The Earl of Warwick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4037
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/20.500.14106/4805
eBooks The triumvirate: or, the authentic memoirs of A. B. and C. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5635
eBooks Euphemia. By Mrs. Charlotte Lennox. In four volumes.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4579
eBooks The noble pedlar: a burletta. As performed at Marybone-Gardens. Set to music by Mr. Barthelemon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3391
eBooks The squire's story https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3112
eBooks Thoughts on civil liberty: on licentiousness, and faction. By the author of Essays on the characteristics, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3568
eBooks Poems occasion'd by reading the travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, explanatory and commendatorySeveral copies of verses on occasion of Mr. Gulliver's travels https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3698
eBooks An enquiry into the causes of the decay of the dissenting interest: In a letter to a dissenting minister. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3922
eBooks Remarks and observations on the morality and divinity contained in Dr. Free's certain articles: proposed to the Court of Assistants, of the Worshipful Company of Salters. In a letter to the Reverend Dr. Free. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3773
eBooks An extract of the life and death of Mr. John Janeway: ... By James Wheatley.Invisibles, realities. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3389
eBooks Poems: consisting of odes, sonnets, songs, and occasional verses. By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5122
eBooks The flights of fancy: being a collection of original pieces, in verse and prose, never before publish'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3341
eBooks Memoirs of a Magdalen: or, the history of Louisa Mildmay. Now first published from a series of original letters. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4565
eBooks A fifth discourse on the miracles of our Saviour: in view of the present controversy between infidels and apostates. The second edition. By Tho. Woolston, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4628
eBooks Plays of three acts: written for a private theatre. By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4740
eBooks Blundrella: [sic]: or, the impertinent. A tale. To which is added The beau monde, or, the pleasures of St. James's. A new ballad. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3452
eBooks Remarkable case of a boy, who lost a considerable portion of brain: and is recovered, without detriment to any faculty, mental or corporeal. By R. Leny. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5561
eBooks Burnet and Bradbury: or the confederacy of the press and the pulpit for the blood of the last ministry. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3451
eBooks An essay on man: being the first book of ethic epistles. To Henry St. John, L. Bolingbroke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3676
eBooks The Golden Bowl https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3121
eBooks Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society, by John Aitken, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5525
eBooks The old women weatherwise, an interlude: as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4690
eBooks The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon, Esq; ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4641
eBooks Winter: A poem. By James Thomson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4246
eBooks Observations on the three first volumes of the History of English Poetry. In a familiar letter to the author https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5358
eBooks Almeyda, Queen of Granada: A tragedy, in five acts. By Sophia Lee. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3831
eBooks Der arme Heinrich https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3226
eBooks Dombey and Son https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3164
eBooks An essay upon publick credit: being an enquiry how the publick credit comes to depend upon the change of the ministry, or the dissolutions of Parliaments; and whether it does so or no. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4525
eBooks An abstract of a book lately published; entituled, A treatise of human nature, &c. Wherein the chief argument of that book is farther illustrated and explainedTreatise of human nature. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3448
eBooks The castle spectre: a drama. In five acts. ... By M.G. Lewis, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5114
eBooks A declaration of truth to Benjamin Hoadly: one of the high priests of the land, and of the degree whom men call bishops. By a ministring friend, who writ to Tho. Bradbury, a dealer in many words. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4490
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/20.500.14106/4894
eBooks The prize: or, 2, 5, 3, 8, a musical farce in two acts, as performed by His Majesty's company. Written by Prince Hoare, Esq. The music by Storace. Correctly taken from the manager's book. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3412
eBooks The character of Katharine, late Duchess of Buckinghamshire and Normanby: By the late Mr. Pope. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3666
eBooks The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon, Esq; ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4644
eBooks Two poems: viz. I. On the deluge, paradise, the burning of the world, and of the new heavens and new earth. An ode to. Dr. Burnett. II. In praise of physic and poetry. An ode to Dr. Hannes. Written by Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4602
eBooks The tears and triump[hs] of Parnassus: an ode for musick, as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5120
eBooks Proposals for publishing by subscription The man of the world, a comedy, in five acts; and, Love a la mode, a comedy, in two acts, written by Mr. Charles Macklin.Man of the world. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3780
eBooks Mémoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'exposé, &c de la cour de France https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4653
eBooks A collection of the writings of the author of The true-born English-man. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4547
eBooks The black art detected and expos'd: or, a demonstration of the hellish impiety, of being, or desiring to be a wizzard, conjurer, or witch. ... In a letter to a country gentleman https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4306
eBooks An account of the life of John Philip Barretier: who was master of five languages at the age of nine years. Compiled from his father's letters, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4581