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Courts and courtiers - Early works to 1800

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    The accomplish'd courtier or. A new school of love. Being the rarest and most exact art of wooing maid or widow ... To which is added a choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at court and city, ..

    Shaw-Stewart, John, Sir, 1739-1812. | Date: [1775?]
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    Wilkes and liberty: or, The universal prayer

    | Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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    The Character of an ill-court-favourite : representing the mischiefs that flow from ministers of state when they are more great than good : the arts they use to seduce their masters, and the unhappiness of princes that are curs'd with such destructive servants / translated out of French.

    | Date: 1681
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    Walsingham's manual, or, prudential maxims for statesmen and courtiers: with instructions for youth, gentlemen and noblemen. By Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and Cardinal Sermonetta

    | Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]

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