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Page 74 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers. Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON . With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and 61 Copperplate Illustrations.
Page 102 - POOR FOLK. Translated from the Russian of F. Dostoievsky by LENA MILMAN. With a Preface by GEORGE MOORE. Vol. iv. A CHILD OF THE AGE. By FRANCIS ADAMS.
Page 70 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Page 95 - A Reply to the Answer (printed by his Majesties Command at Oxford) to a printed Booke intituled ' Observations upon some of his Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Page 24 - THE | CRONICLE | History of Henry the fift, | With his battell fought at Agin Court in | France. Togither with Auntient \ Pistoll. \ As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honorable \ the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.
Page 89 - LEY (William) The Changeling: As it was Acted (with great Applause) at the Privat house in Drury-Lane and Salisbury Court.
Page 180 - Select Observations on English Bodies, or Cures both Empericall and Historicall performed upon very eminent persons in desperate Diseases. First written in Latine by Mr. John Hall, physician living at Stratford-uponAvon, in Warwickshire, where he was very famous, as also in the counties adjacent, as appears by these observations drawn out of severall hundreds of his, as choysest; Now put into English for common benefit by James Cooke Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery...
Page 122 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
Page 81 - The Humble petition and address Of the General Court sitting at Boston in New-England, unto The High and Mighty prince Charles the second. And presented to His Most Gracious Majesty Feb.
Page 83 - Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Playes, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before.