Davies, Benjamin
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Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great, to general society [One line from Shakespeare].
Hannah MoreDate: [1795]- E-books
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The bloody buoy , thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America: or, A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity, such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, until the commencement of the Frenc Revolution. By Peter Porcupine. [Four lines from the Abbe Maury's speech to the National Assembly].
William CobbettDate: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- E-books
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One thousand valuable secrets, in the elegant and useful arts , collected from the practice of the best artists, and containing an account of the various methods of engraving on brass, copper and steel. Of the composition of metals. -- of varnishes. Of mastichs, cements, sealing wax. Of the glass manufactory. Various imitations of precious stones and French paste. Of colours and painting, useful for carriage painters. Of painting on paper. Of compositions for limners. Of transparent colours. Of colours to dye skins and gloves. To colour and varnish copper-plate prints. Of painting on glass. Of colours of all sorts, for oil, water and crayons. Of preparing the lapis lazuli. To make ultramarine. Of the art of guilding. The art of dying woods, bones, &c. The art of casting in moulds. Of making useful sort of ink. The art of making wines. -- Of making vinegars. Of liquors, essential oils, &c. Of confectionary. Of preparing various kinds of snuffs. Of taking out spots and stains. Of fishing, angling, bird-catching, and a variety of other curious, entertaining and useful articles.
Date: 1795- E-books
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A treatise on the police of London containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. By a magistrate acting for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex. --For the City and Liberty of Westminster --and for the Liberty of the Tower of London. [Five lines of Latin quotation].
Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- E-books
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A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble Lord , on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford, and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of Parliament.
Edmund BurkeDate: [1796]