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eBooks Traffics and Discoveries https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3295
eBooks Alciphron: or, the minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those who are called free-thinkers. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4712
eBooks Flores poetarum britannicorum sef blodeuog waith y prydyddion bryttannaidd: O gasgliad J. D. SS.Th.D. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5305
eBooks The history of Lady Barton: a novel, in letters, by Mrs. Griffith. In three volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4536
eBooks The family picture; or, domestic dialogues on amiable and interesting subjects; ... By Thomas Holcroft,: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4346
eBooks Letter addressed to the abbe Raynal on the affairs of North-America: In which the mistakes in the abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up. By Thomas Paine, M.A. of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5504
eBooks My grandmother: a musical farce, in two acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay Market. The music composed by Mr. Storace. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3481
eBooks The farmer: a comic opera: In two acts. As it is performed at the theatres Royal in London and Dublin. By John O'Keefe, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3742
eBooks A sermon preach'd in Lambeth-chapel, at the consecration of ... John Lord Bishop of Bangor, on Sunday, Jan. 4th 1701/2. By William Hayley, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3759
eBooks Dyers news examined as to his Sweddish memorial against the Review https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4296
eBooks The dyet of Poland: a satyr. Consider'd paragraph by paragraph. To which is added a key to the whole, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3311
eBooks An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India, and the islands in the Indian seas: ... By E. Donovan, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4865
eBooks The house of the seven gables https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3196
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/20.500.14106/5054
eBooks It cannot rain but it pours: or, London strow'd with rarities. Being, an account of the arrival of a white bear, at the house of Mr. Ratcliff in Bishopsgate-Street: as also of the Faustina, ... and of the copper-farthing dean from Ireland. And las... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3751
eBooks Abroad and at home: A comic opera, in three acts. Now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By J. G. Holman,. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3932
eBooks Inoculation made easy: Containing a full and true discovery of the method practised in the county of Essex. ... With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5521
eBooks Family secrets: literary and domestic. By Mr. Pratt. In five volumes. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4704
eBooks The life of Thomas Parnell: D.D. Archdeacon of Clogher. Compiled from original papers and memoirs: in which are included several letters of Mr. Pope, Mr. Gay, Dr. Arbuthnot, &c. &c. By Dr. Goldsmith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5371
eBooks A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea: recommending the use of injection as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure: with a brief account of the remedies which have been used in the lues venerea, from its first appearance in Europe; and a ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5522
eBooks Animal magnetism, a farce: in three acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden,. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4341
eBooks A letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to His Grace the Duke of Portland, on the conduct of the minority in Parliament, containing fifty-four articles of impeachment against the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. From the original copy, in the possession of... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4018
eBooks Evelina: or, a young lady's entrance into the world. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5474
eBooks Tess of the d'Urbervilles https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3223
eBooks To His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, on his birth-day. April the 15th, 1732. By Stephen Duck https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4743
eBooks A Scotsman's remarks on the farce of Love a la mode, scene by scene. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4166
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.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4590
eBooks The Muse Among the Motors https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3287
eBooks The view of Hindoostan.: [pt.3]Outlines of the globe https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5316
eBooks A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion: and the methods to be used to prevent it. By Richard Mead, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5612
eBooks Some passages from the history of the Chomley family; The deserted mansion ; A fear for the future https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3040
eBooks To the noblemen, gentlemen and proprietors of lands in Scotland, and inhabitants at large https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5482
eBooks The case of impotency as debated in England: in that remarkable tryal an. 1613. between Robert, Earl of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard, who, after eight years marriage, commenc'd a suit against him for impotency. ... Written by George Abbot, .... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4619
eBooks Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape: to which is added a poem, on landscape painting. By William Gilpin, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4831
eBooks Poems and plays: by William Hayley, Esq. In six volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4097
eBooks Rosina: a comic opera, in two acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4960
eBooks An account of the nature, properties, and medicinal uses, of the mineral water at Nottington, near Weymouth, Dorset. By John Crane, ... With a view of the well, in it's present state https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5650
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.7] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5340
eBooks The sixth epistle of the first book of Horace: by Mr. Pope. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3493
eBooks The case of dissenters as affected by the late bill proposed in Parliament, for preventing occasional conformity. By a gentleman https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3936
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.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4664
eBooks Maxims, observations, and reflections: moral, political, and divine. By Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4730
eBooks The adventures of Anthony Varnish: or, a peep at the manners of society. By an adept. In three volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5632
eBooks The memoirs of an English officer: who serv'd in the Dutch war in 1672. to the peace of Utrecht, in 1713. ... By Capt. George Carleton. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3315
eBooks THE TRAGEDIE OF Troylus and Cressida. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5728
eBooks The delicate distress, a novel: in letters. In two volumes. By Frances. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3519
eBooks The beauties of Sterne: including all his pathetic tales, and most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the heart of sensibility. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3783
eBooks The tears of genius: Occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith. By Courtney Melmoth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4206
eBooks An essay upon nursing: and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. By a physician. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital. Published by order of the General Committee ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5515
eBooks Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants. By Mr. Addison. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3875