Great Britain - Social conditions - 18th century
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Transactions of the Social Union : formed for the improvement of civil society.
Social Union (Great Britain)Date: 1790- E-books
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A letter from Daniel de Foe to Mr. Matthews printer in Little-Britain . About the Birth of the Pretender.
Date: [1711]- E-books
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A reply to C----- A-------, author of the Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital : with relation to the probable advantages of this institution, if confined to such foundlings, orphans, and deserted children, within the bills of mortality, as were usually sent to parish workhouses and parish nurses.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1760- E-books
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Circular letter to the corresponding societies , In Great Britain. Containing The cat let out of the bag: or, the perpetual motion discovered, and its uses displayed. With a warning voice to the associations. By Moses Gomez Pereira, Philo-Kinesis.
Gomez Pereira, MosesDate: 1796- E-books
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An inquiry into the management of the poor : and our usual polity respecting the common people : with reasons why they have not hitherto been attended with success, and such alterations offered to the consideration of the legislature, as may probably introduce a more general spirit of industry and order, and greatly lessen the publick expence ...
Rawlinson, Christopher.Date: 1767