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A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time; ... By John Hamilton Moore, ... Assisted by several persons who have made the subjects of voyages and travels their particular study. Embellished with the most superb and elegant set of copper-plates, maps, charts, plans, &c.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: [1780?]
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The seaman's complete daily assistant, and new mariner's compass: being an easy method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing [r]ules for working the case in plane, middle latitude, and mercator's sailing, by the table of difference of latitude and departure. The method to find the latitude, longitude, and variation of the compass; how allowances are to be made for Leeway, variation, heave of the sea, setting of the current, and to correct the dead reckening by an observation, for a single day or many; with all the tables requisite to be used at sea. The whole examplified in journal from the Lizard to the Island of St. Mary's, and every day's work pricked off upon a mercator's chart. To which is prefixed A short and easy treatise on arithmetic: containing the necessary rules of common arithmetic, decimal fractions, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with their use in measuring all kinds of boards, planks, cases, casks, bales and packages, usually taken on board. The guaging of casks, and finding a ship's tonnage, worked by figures, Gunter's scale and logarithms. Likewise the methods of keeping a ship's accounts, disbursements, the forms of cargo-books, receipts for wages, invoice and manisest of goods, bills of parcels and letters of credit. The whole rendered so plain, that any person may gain a sufficient knowledge of the above by their own application, without any other assistance. To this edition is added, The use of Hadley's quadrant, and mercator's chart, with many valuable improvements. By John Hamilton Moore, teacher of Navigation, hydrographer and chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: 1792
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The new practical navigator Being an epitome of navigation, containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea; illustrated by proper rules and examples; the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe: also, the substance of that examination, every candidate for a commission in the Royal navy, and officer in the Honourable East India Company's service, must pass through, previous to their being appointed: this, with the sea terms, are particularly recommended to the attention of all young gentlemen designed for, or belonging to the sea. So that this book, and the nautical almanac, will be found fully sufficient for the seaman and teacher's use, and is rendered easy to any common capacity. The twelfth edition, constructed on a new plan, and illustrated with copper-plates. By John Hamilton Moore, teacher of navigation, hydrographer and chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: 1796
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor , and English teacher's assistant: being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: caluclated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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The new practical navigator being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... The first American, from the thirteenth English edition of John Hamilton Moore. Improved by the introduction of several new tables, and by large additions to the forme tables, and revised and corrected by a skilful mathematician and navigator. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: [1800]
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The young gentleman and lady's monitor , and, English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to Eradicate Vulgar Prejudices and Rusticity of Manners; Improve the Understanding; Rectify the Will; Purify the Pasions; Direct the Minds of Youth to the [p]ursuit of proper Objects; and to facilitate their Reading, Writing, and Speaking the English Language, with Elegance and Propriety. Particularly adapted for the Use of our eminent Schools and Academies, as well as private Persons, who have not an Opportunity of perusing the Works of those celebrated Authors, from whence this Collection is made. Divided into Small Portions for the Ease of Reading in Classes. The third edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator and Seaman's New Daily Assistant.
Date: 1780
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Trial of John Hamilton Moore for pirating a chart. Sittings after term, March 1798, before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury of Merchants. Guildhall, London. Heather and Williams, v. John Hamilton Moore
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: [1798]
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor , and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore.
Date: M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and academies, as well as private persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the works of those celebrated authors from whence this collection is made. Divided into small portions for the ease of reading in classes. A new edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XCVIII [1798]
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The young gentleman and lady's monitor and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: Calculated to Eradicate Vulgar Prejudices and Rusticity of Manners; Improve the Understanding; Rectify the Will; Purify the Passions; Direct the Minds of Youth to the Pursuit of proper Objects; and to facilitate their Reading, Writing, and Speaking the English Language, with Elegance and Propriety. Particularly adapted for the Use of our eminent Schools and Academies, as well as private Persons, who have not an Opportunity of perusing the Works of those celebrated Authors, from whence this Collection is made. Divided into Small Portions for the Ease of Reading in Classes. The fourth edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator and Seaman's New Daily Assistant.
Date: 1784
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The coaster's companion Containing directions for the downs, for sailing and turning, thence, thro' the different channels, to the Nore; for going into Harwich, and over the naze into the wallet; for going round Orfordness, and thro' Yarmouth-roads to the spurn.-a description of the coast, from calais along the coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Jutland of the Cattegat, sound and baltic, as far as cronstadt; with directions for going into the several roads and harbours. Also, the courses by compass, and distances, from place to place, round England, Scotland, Ireland, the Shetland, Orkney, and Lewis Isles. Along the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Cattegat, Baltic, France, Portugal, and Spain. With the courses and distances from different places in Britain, to different places in Flanders, Holland, Juttland, Norway, France, and Ireland. To which is added, a large tide-table, with a new and correct method of finding the times of high-water at all the ports and principal places in Europe. By John Hamilton Moore, author of the practical navigator, and seaman's complete daily assistant.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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The coaster's companion Containing sailing directions for the East Coast of England, from London to the Shetland Isles. Also of the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Cattegat, sound, baltic and Gulf of Finland, to St. Petersburgh; of the Coasts of Norway, Lapland and the White Sea, to Archangel and Onega; with directions for going into the several roads, harbours, &c. describing the caps, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorages. Also the magnetic courses, and the distances, from place to place, round England, Scotland, Ireland, the Orkney, Shetland, and Lewis Isles, along the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Baltic, Norway, Lapland, White sea, France, Portugal, and Spain. With the courses and distances from several places in Great Britain, to several places in Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Norway, France and Ireland. To which is added, a large tide-table, with a new and correct method of finding the times of high water at all the principal places in Europe. By John Hamilton Moore, (Chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and Her Serene Highness, the empress of all the Russians.) Assisted by several able pilots and coasters.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: 1792
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The seaman's complete daily assistant, and new mariner's compass: being an easy method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing rules for working the cases in plane, middle latitude, and Mercator's sailing, by the tables of difference of latitude and departure. The method to find the latitude, longitude, and variation of the compass; how allowances are to be made for Lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, setting of the currents, and to correct the dead reckoning by an observation for a single day or many; with all the tables requisite to be used at sea. The whole exemplified in a journal from the Lizard to the island of St. Mary and every day's work pricked off upon a Mercator's chart. To which is prefixed A short and easy treatise on arithmetic: containing the necessary rules of common arithmetic, decimal fractions, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with their use in measuring all kinds of boards, planks, cases, casks, bales, and packages, usually taken on board. The gauging of casks, and finding a ship's tonnage, worked by figures, gunter's scale and logarithms. Likewise the methods of keeping a ship's accounts, disbursements, the forms of cargo-books, receipts for wages, invoice and manifest of goods, bills of parcels, and letters of credit. The whole rendered so plain, that any person may gain a sufficient knowledge of the above by their own application, without any other assistance. To this edition is added, the use fo Hadley's Quadrat and Mercator's chart, with many valuable improvements. By John Hamilton Moore, teacher of navigation, hydrographer and chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: 1800
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor , and English teacher's assistant: being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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The young gentleman and lady's monitor , and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: Calculated To Eradicate Vulgar Prejudices and Rusticity of Manners; Improve the Understanding; Rectify the Will; Purify the Passions; Direct the Minds of Youth to the Pursuit of proper Objects; and to facilitate their Reading, Writing, and Speaking the English Language, with Elegance and Propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and Academies, as well as private Persons, who have not an Opportunity of perusing the Works of those celebrated Authors, from whence this Collection is made. Divided Into Small Portions for the Ease of Reading in Classes. The sixth edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator and Seaman's New Daily Assistant.
Date: 1791
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The young gentleman and ladies monitor , being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: particularly calculated to form the mind and manners of the youth of both sexes, adapted to the use of schools and academies. By Hamilton Moore, Esq. Used in the Academy, Belfast.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor , and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator, and Seaman's ne daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
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The practical observer Or, The new method of finding the latitude at sea, by taking two altitudes, either in the forenoon or afternoon. And also, the new method of finding the longitude at sea, by taking the distance of the moon from the sun, or a fixed Star, &c. Rendered easy to the meanest capacity. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. To which is added, the new Solar tables. and table of natural sines, with the use of the quadrant and sextant.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and academies, as well as private persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the works of those celebrated authors from whence this collection is made. Divided into small portions for the ease of reading in classes. A new edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XCVIII [1798]
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The Young gentleman and ladies monitor , Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: particularly calculated to form the mind and manners of the youth of both sexes, and adapted to the use of schools and academies. By Hamilton Moore, Esq:.
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]
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The Young gentleman and ladies monitor, and, English teacher's assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and academies, as well as private persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the works of those celebrated authors, from whence this collection is made. Divided into small portions for the ease of reading in classes. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the practical navigator and seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: [1773?]