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Item of the Day: Historical Review of the Consitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic] (1759)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 months ago: Full Title: An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic], From its O … more »

Tags: History, Government, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, Colonial America, Franklin, Pennsylvania

Item of the Day: An Account of the European Settlements (1758)1 comment

Matthew Williams wrote 4 months ago: Full Title:  An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of … more »

Tags: american indians, History, Colonial America, Explorations, Posted by Matthew Williams

Item of the Day: Chess Analysed (1750)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 4 months ago: Full Title: Chess Analysed: or Instructions by which a Perfect Knowledge of this Noble Game May in a … more »

Tags: Culture, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, eighteenth century, Leisure

Item of the Day: Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful (1798)

Matthew Williams wrote 5 months ago: Full Title: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With … more »

Tags: 1790's, Art, criticism, Posted by Matthew Williams

Item of the Day: Voyage to South-America (1758)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 6 months ago: Full Title: A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, … more »

Tags: Travel, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, Explorations, South America, Spain

Item of the Day: Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties (1754)

Matthew Williams wrote 7 months ago: Full Title: The Works of the Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Vol. II. Lon … more »

Tags: Government, Politics, Political Philosophy, Posted by Matthew Williams

Item of the Day: Hume's History of England (1757)

Matthew Williams wrote 7 months ago: Full Title:  The History of Great Britain.  Vol. II. Containing the Commonwealth, and the Reigns o … more »

Tags: History, 1680's, Politics, Posted by Matthew Williams

Item of the Day: First Philippic Oration of Demosthenes (1757)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 11 months ago: Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historica … more »

Tags: Greek/Roman Translations, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, oratory, Ancient Greece

Item of the Day: Orations of Demosthenes Translated by Mr. Francis (1757)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 11 months ago: Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historica … more »

Tags: History, Greek/Roman Translations, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, oratory, Ancient Greece

Item of the Day: Swift's Rules for Servants (1753)

rdresser wrote 11 months ago: Full Title:  Miscellanies.  By Dr. Swift.  The Eleventh Volume.  London:  Printed for C. Hitch … more »

Tags: Culture, Posted by Rebecca Dresser, Satire, manners, Jonathan Swift

Item of the Day: The Adventurer (1770)

rdresser wrote 11 months ago: Full Title:  The ADVENTURER. By John Hawkesworth. Volume the Fourth.  New Edition.  London:  … more »

Tags: Culture, Posted by Rebecca Dresser, enlightenment, England

Item of the Day: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1758)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By John Brown. Seventh Edition. … more »

Tags: Culture, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, Great Britain, enlightenment

Item of the Day: Dr. Mayhew's Election Sermon (1754)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  A Sermon Preach’d in the Audience of His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; Captai … more »

Tags: Religion, Government, Posted by Rebecca Dresser, Colonial America

Item of the Day: The History of the Province of New-York (1776)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The History of the Province of New-York, From the First Discovery, To Which is Annexed … more »

Tags: New York, Posted by Rebecca Dresser, Great Britain, Colonial America

Item of the Day: An Account of the European Settlements by William Burke and Edmund Burke (1758)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of … more »

Tags: Posted by Rebecca Dresser, Great Britain, Colonial America

Item of the Day: Harris's Hermes (1751)

Carrie Shanafelt wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal Grammar, by James … more »

Tags: Philosophy, language, Posted by Carrie Shanafelt

Item of the Day: Milton's Areopagitica (1753)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now more correctly p … more »

Tags: Posted by Caroline Fuchs, Liberty, printing

Item of the Day: History of California (1759)

Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing An accurate Description of that Co … more »

Tags: american indians, History, Posted by Caroline Fuchs, California

Item of the Day: Defoe's History of the Plague (1754)2 comments

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The HISTORY of the Great PLAGUE in London, in the Year 1665. Containing, Observations … more »

Tags: 1660's, Posted by Rebecca Dresser, Great Britain, Plague


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