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The young lady's accidence: or, A short and easy introduction to English grammar Designed, principally, for the use of young learners, more especially those of the fair sex, though proper for either. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. Author of The child's companion, and American preceptor. [Two lines of verse].
Bingham, Caleb 1757-1817.Date: 1796
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English liberties , or The free-born subject's inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, the statute De Tallagio non Concedendo, the Habeas Corpus Act, and several other statutes; with comments on each of them ... with many law-cases throughout the whole. Compiled first by Henry Care, and continued, with large additions, by William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;.
Care, Henry 1646-1688.Date: 1774
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return to Europe; with notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home; being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; [t]he port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam; the coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knigh of the Bath, His Majesty's embassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. By Sir George Staunton, Baronet. Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Oxford, fellow of the Royal Society of London, His Majesty's secretary of embassy to the Emperor of China, and minister plenipotentiary in the absence of the embassador. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Staunton, George Sir, 1737-1801.Date: 1799
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The select dialogues of Lucian To which is added, a new literal translation in Latin, with notes in English. By Edward Murray, M.A. [Two lines of quotations in Latin].
Lucian of SamosataDate: 1789
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Sermons, preached before the University of Oxford, in the year 1784 , at the lecture founded by the Rev. John Bampton, M.A. late Canon of Salisbury. To which is now added, a sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, July 4, 1784, on the duty of attempting the propagation of the Gospel among our Mahometan and Gentoo subjects in India. by Joseph White, B.D. Fellow of Wadham College, Archbishop Laud's Professor of Arabic, and one of His Majesty's preachers at Whitehall.
White, Joseph 1745-1814.Date: 1793