England - Social conditions - 18th century

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A sermon preached in the chapel of the Asylum for Female Orphans , at the anniversary meeting of the guardians of that charity, May 19, 1774. By George Horne, D. D. President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Horne, George 1730-1792.Date: 1774
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Voyage philosophique d'Angleterre : fait en 1783 et 1784 ...
La Coste, deDate: 1787
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A sermon preached before His Grace William Duke of Devonshire, president, and the governors of the London-Hospital , at Mile-End, for the relief of all sick and diseased persons, especially Manufacturers, and Seamen in Merchant-Service, &c. at St. Lawrence Jewry, on Monday, April 11, 1763. By Sir William Ashburnham, Bart. Lord Bishop of Chichester. Published at the Request of the President and Governors.
Ashburnham, William Sir, 1710-1797.Date: 1764
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An account of the four persons found starved to death, at Datchworth in Hertfordshire / by one of the jurymen on the inquisition taken on their bodies.
Thicknesse, Philip 1719-1792.Date: 1769
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The second report and address of the Philanthropic Society : instituted September 1788, for the prevention of crimes : containing remarks upon education, and some account of the methods adopted in the reform for cultivating virtuous dispositions and habits in the wards of the society.
Philanthropic Society (London, England)Date: 1789