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Page 1826
... HOUSE for SIN or A Table of the several Sums of Money to be paid for Dispensations of all Crimes and Villanies ... Houses of Parliament ( c . 1720 ) . FOLIO BROAD- SHEET POEM of 3 pp . text , a curious poem occasioned by the aquittal of ...
... HOUSE for SIN or A Table of the several Sums of Money to be paid for Dispensations of all Crimes and Villanies ... Houses of Parliament ( c . 1720 ) . FOLIO BROAD- SHEET POEM of 3 pp . text , a curious poem occasioned by the aquittal of ...
Page 1834
... Houses , where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd , while their Husbands keep Mis- tresses , & c . and many widows are lock'd up for the sake of their Jointure . IV . To save our Youth from Destruction by clearing the Streets of ...
... Houses , where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd , while their Husbands keep Mis- tresses , & c . and many widows are lock'd up for the sake of their Jointure . IV . To save our Youth from Destruction by clearing the Streets of ...
Page 1835
... House - Keepers Complaint AGAINST THE INSUPPORTABLE EXACTIONS , AND PARTIAL ASSESSMENTS OF SELECT VESTRIES , & c . With A Plain Detection of many Abuses committed in the Distribution of Publick Charities . Together with a Practicable ...
... House - Keepers Complaint AGAINST THE INSUPPORTABLE EXACTIONS , AND PARTIAL ASSESSMENTS OF SELECT VESTRIES , & c . With A Plain Detection of many Abuses committed in the Distribution of Publick Charities . Together with a Practicable ...
Page 1836
... House of Commons , RELATING TO THE PRESENT INTENDED RELIEF OF PRISONERS . R. Walker , 1729. FIRST EDITION . 8vo , sewn . £ 2 15s 12142 Street - Robberies , Consider'd . THE REASON OF THEIR BEING SO FREQUENT , With Probable Means to ...
... House of Commons , RELATING TO THE PRESENT INTENDED RELIEF OF PRISONERS . R. Walker , 1729. FIRST EDITION . 8vo , sewn . £ 2 15s 12142 Street - Robberies , Consider'd . THE REASON OF THEIR BEING SO FREQUENT , With Probable Means to ...
Page 1838
... House of Commons , who Can and Will Read ; And of such Lords , who Can and Will Think ; And of such Bishops , who Can and Dare Speak ; And of such Lawyers who Can Read and Speak , but Dare not Think at all . By a very , very , very Lay ...
... House of Commons , who Can and Will Read ; And of such Lords , who Can and Will Think ; And of such Bishops , who Can and Dare Speak ; And of such Lawyers who Can Read and Speak , but Dare not Think at all . By a very , very , very Lay ...
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Page 1868 - REAL LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall. By an Amateur (Pierce Egan). With 31 Coloured Plates by Alken and Rowlandson, etc.
Page 1844 - A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. By Charles Dickens.
Page 1892 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her Life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Page 1850 - PolyOlbion: or, a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, with intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same...
Page 1902 - Poems on Several Occasions. WRITTEN BY DR. THOMAS PARNELL, Late Archdeacon of Clogher. AND PUBLISHED BY MR. POPE. With THE LIFE OF ZOILUS. And his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
Page 1855 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady.
Page 1839 - REFLECTIONS upon polygamy and the encouragement given to that practice in the Scriptures of the Old Testament.
Page 1834 - An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters in Cases of Preferment. With a Preface to the Lord Mayor, Occasioned by his carrying the Sword to a Conventicle.
Page 1836 - The Two Great questions considered. I. What the French King will do with respect, to the Spanish Monarchy. II. What measures the English ought to take.
Page 1841 - Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock. In Several Letters to a Friend. With a Preface, Occasion'd by the late TREATISE ON THE PROFUND, and THE DUNCIAD.