Volume 1

Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing.

  • Samuel Halkett
Date:
1926-[1962]
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    ABSTRACT (an) from an English edition of the Meditations of Thomas A’Kempis, on the life and loving¬ kindness of Jesus Christ. By T. S. [Thomas Shillitoe]. i2mo. [Smith’s Cat. of Friends' Books.] London, N.D. ABSTRACT (an) from the works of John Hutchinson, Esquire; being a summary of his discoveries in philos¬ ophy and divinity. [By Robert Spearman.] 121110. Pp. 454. [New Coll. Cat.] Edinburgh, 1753 ABSTRACT of a dissertation . . . con¬ cerning the system of the earth, its duration and stability. [By James Hutton, F.R.S.E.] 8vo. [Edin. Univ. Lib.] Edinburgh, 1785 ABSTRACT (an) of a letter to Cotton Mather of Boston in New-England. By T. M. [Thomas Maule]. 4to. Pp. 19. [Evans’ American Bibliography, vol. i., p. 151.] [Philadelphia], 1701 ABSTRACT of a speech, never intended to have been spoken, in answer to the substance of a speech, said to have been spoken by the Reverend Principal Hill of St Andrews, in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 23rd May 1807, when that venerable court had under consideration the draught of a loyal and dutiful address to His Majesty. [By Robert Brown, of Markle.] 8vo. Pp. 26. [New Coll. Cat.] Edinburgh, 1807 ABSTRACT of Archbishop [William] Alexander’s Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christiajiity. [By Thomas Deakin Morris.] 8vo. Pp. 36. [Brit. Musi] N.P. [1916] ABSTRACT (an) of common principles of a just vindication of the rights of the Kingdom of God upon earth, against the politick machinations of Erastian hereticks ; out of the Vindic¬ ation of the deprived bishops, etc., by [Henry Dodwell] a very learned man of the Church of England. [By Edward Stephens.] 4to. [Episc. Lib.] London, 1700 ABSTRACT (an) of the arguments on the Catholic question [in Ireland]. [By Theobald MacKenna.] 8vo. [Camb. Univ. Cat.] London, 1805 ABSTRACT of the charters and other papers recorded in the Chartulary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596. [Edited by John B. Gracie, with an introductory notice by James Maid- ment.] 4to. Pp. x., 35. [Martin’s Cat.] Edinburgh, 1830 ABSTRACT (an) of the Essay of Human Understanding [of John Locke]. By Sir Geoffrey Gilbert. Fcap 8vo. [Brit. Musi] London, 1709 ABSTRACT (an) of the history of the Old and New Testament. [By Richard Challoner, D.D., Romish bishop.] Fcap8vo. [Gillow’s Bibliog. Diet., vol. i., p. 457 ; D. N. B., vol. 9, p. 443-] London, 1767 ABSTRACT (an) or [of] the lawes of New England, as they are now estab¬ lished. [By John Cotton.] Fcap 4to. Pp. 16. [Dexter’s Cong. Bibliog]. London, 1641 ABSTRACT (an) of the lives, precepts, and sayings of the Ancient Fathers, which immediately succeeded Christ and His Apostles : faithfully collected, and published, as well for instruction and admonition to all people, as for the encouragement of all such as suffer for the testimony of truth and a good conscience. By a fellow sufferer with them, J. W. [John Whiting]. 4to. Pp. 21. [Smith’s Cat. of Friends' Books.] London, 1684 ABSTRACT of the proceedings of the Board of relief for the Destitute, appointed in Graham’s Town by Sir Benjamin d’Urban, with a view to mitigate the sufferings of the frontier inhabitants occasioned by the irruption of the Cape Tribes. [By John Heavy- side.] 8vo. Pp. 100. Cape Town, 1836 ABSTRACT (an) of the regulations and statutes of the charity-school, orphan- hospital and work-house at Edinburgh. By Andrew Gairdner.] 8vo. Pp. 16. [New Coll. Cat.] Edinburgh, 1736 ABSTRACT (an) of the republics of antiquity. [By W— Warrington.] 8vo. [Camb. Univ. Cat.] Egham, 1800 ABSTRACT (an) of the sufferings of the people call’d Quakers, for the testimony of a good conscience, taken from the original records. . . . [By Joseph Besse.] 3 vols. 8vo. [Smith’s Cat. of Friends' Books.] London, 1733 ABSTRACT (an) of the Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls. . . . By the author of that Treatise [David Jeffries, jeweller], 8vo. [Watt’s Bibl. Brit.] London, 1753 ABSTRACT (an) of the whole doctrine of the Christian religion, with observa¬ tions, by John Anastasius Freyling- hausen. [Translated from the German by Joseph Planta, and edited by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London.] 8vo. [Lowndes’ Brit. Lib.] London, 1804