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eBooks An essay on the history of civil society: By Adam Ferguson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4610
eBooks Plain Tales from the Hills https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3291
eBooks Yorick's meditations: upon various interesting and important subjects. Viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the thing. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5129
eBooks A vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: By the author. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4222
eBooks The cause of the deluge demonstrated https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5386
eBooks April-day, a burletta, in three acts. Written by the author of Midas. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. The music composed by Dr. Arnold https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4368
eBooks Barbarossa: A tragedy. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3570
eBooks The candidate. A poem. By C. Churchill https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3586
eBooks The minute mathematician: or, the free-thinker no just-thinker. Set forth in a second letter to the author of The analyst; containing a defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British mathematicians, ... By Philalethes Cantabrigiensis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4647
eBooks The prospect: being the fifth part of Liberty. A poem. By Mr. ThomsonLiberty, a poem. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4144
eBooks An address to the Whig Club: with an essay on the judicial discretion of judges, on fiats and on bail https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4711
eBooks Amabella, a poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4583
eBooks The amorous widow: or, the wanton wife. A comedy. As it is perform'd by Her Majesty's servants. Written by the late famous Mr. Thomas Betterton. Now first printed from the original copy. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4800
eBooks An essay on the genius and writings of Shakespear: with some letters of criticism to The spectator. By Mr. Dennis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4532
eBooks THE Two Gentlemen of Verona. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5722
eBooks A pill to purge the dispensary doctors: or, a cure for the present state of physick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5656
eBooks The just limitation of slavery: in the laws of God, compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders. By Granville Sharp. With a copious appendix: ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5208
eBooks The tragedy of Sophonisba: Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants. By Mr. Thomson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5498
eBooks A vindication of The age of reason, by Thomas Paine: being an answer to the strictures of Mr. Gilbert Wakefield and Dr. Priestley, ... By Thomas Dutton. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4935
eBooks The Life of Charlotte Brontë https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3094
eBooks Calvary: or the death of Christ. A poem, in eight books. By Richard Cumberland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3813
eBooks Reasons: why the apothecary may be suppos'd to understand the administration of medicines in the cure of diseases, as well as the physician. In a letter from an apothecary to a physician https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5583
eBooks Reflections on the late alarming bankruptcies in Scotland: Addressed to all ranks: ... with advice to such, how to conduct themselves at this crisis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3540
eBooks Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and
Latin, and, A maske of the same author [1645] 		https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3021
eBooks The spirit of masonry in moral and elucidatory lectures: By Wm Hutchinson ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4834
eBooks Genuine memoirs of the life and adventures of the celebrated Miss Ann Elliot: Written by a gentleman intimately acquainted with her; ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3330
eBooks The Lord's cup: or, the dispensations of providence with regard to good and evil, considered in a sermon; by William Gilpin,... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3768
eBooks Richard Coeur de Lion: A comic opera, as performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. Taken from a French comedy of the same name, written by Monsieur Sedaine; by Leonard Macnally, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4393
eBooks A descriptive account of the islands lately discovered in the South-Seas: Giving a full detail of the present state of the inhabitants, their government, religion, ... by the Reverend Dr. John Trusler, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4895
eBooks The beau's duel: or a soldier for the ladies. A comedy, as it is acted at the New Theater in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by Her Majesties servants. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3872
eBooks The shepherds lottery. A musical entertainment: As it is perform'd by His Majesty's Company of comedians at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The music compos'd by Dr. Boyce. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4432
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/20.500.14106/5049
eBooks A letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. in the kingdom of Great Britain, to Sir Hercules Langrishe: Bart. M.P. on the subject of Roman Catholics of Ireland, and the propriety of admitting them to the elective franchise, consistently with t... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4017
eBooks The man of ten thousand: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. The second edition. By Thomas Holcroft. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3359
eBooks An essay on acting: in which will be consider'd the mimical behaviour of a certain fashionable faulty actor, ... To which will be added, a short criticism on his acting Macbeth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3728
eBooks The pannel: As altered by J. P. Kemble. From Bickerstaff's translation of Calderon's El escondido y la trapada; and first acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, November 28th, 1788. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3411
eBooks The grounds of criticism in poetry, contain'd in some new discoveries never made before, requisite for the writing and judging of poems surely. Being a preliminary to a larger work design'd to be publish'd in folio, and entituled, A criticism upon... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4531
eBooks The Italian: or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, ... In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4397
eBooks An historical essay on the principles of political associations in a state: ... in a comparative view of the associations of the year 1792, and that recently instituted by the Whig club. By the Rev. John Brand, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3801
eBooks The Spanish lady, a musical entertainment: in two acts; founded on the plan of the old ballad. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3489
eBooks A general history of quadrupeds: The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4387
eBooks The runaway, a comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4161
eBooks Tamerlane. A tragedy: As it is acted at the New Theater in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesty's servants. Written by N. Rowe, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4307
eBooks An essay for abridging the study of physick. To which is added, A dialogue, ... relating to the practice of physick, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5584
eBooks Philosophical essays: concerning human understanding. By the author of the Essays moral and political. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3637
eBooks Memoirs of the present state of the court and councils of Spain: In two parts. With the true reasons why this vast monarchy, which in the last century made so considerable a figure in the world, is in this so feeble and paralytick. Done into Engli... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3422
eBooks Soldiers Three https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3299
eBooks The letters of Valens, (which originally appeared in the London Evening Post) with corrections, explanatory notes, and a preface, by the author https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4022
eBooks Original letters of the late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne; never before published https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3793
eBooks The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3152