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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: 1750's, Culture, Jonathan Swift, manners, Satire

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, 1750's, enlightenment, England

Item of the Day: Horace Walpole on the Death and Funeral of George II from Walpole's Private Correspondence (1760)

rdresser wrote 11 months ago: Full Title:  Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Now First Collected.  In Fo … more »

Tags: 1760's, England, George II

Item of the Day: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)1 comment

rdresser wrote 12 months ago: Full Title:  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies.  B … more »

Tags: 1760's, American Revolution, Political Commentary

Item of the Day: The Works of Alexander Pope (1770)

rdresser wrote 12 months ago: Full Title:  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes, Complete.  With His Last Correction … more »

Tags: 1770's, criticism, Poetry

Item of the Day: A Discourse Delivered on The Day of General Election (1809)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  A Discourse, Delivered Before the Lieutenant-Governor, The Council, and the Two Houses … more »

Tags: 1800's, Federalists, Massachusetts, Early Republic, Political Commentary

Item of the Day: Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin and William Strahan (1775)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not … more »

Tags: Letters, 1770's, 1780's, American Revolution, Franklin, England

Item of the Day: Lee's Memoirs (1793)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Four … more »

Tags: 1790's, American Revolution, Charles Lee

Item of the Day: The Enquirer (1797)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  THE ENQUIRER.  Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, In a Series of Essa … more »

Tags: 1790's, England, Political Philosophy, manners

Item of the Day: From London to Constantinople (1794)1 comment

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  An Itinerary from London to Constantinople, in Sixty Days (Taken in the Suite of his E … more »

Tags: 1790's, Travel Literature, Europe

Item of the Day: Noah Webster's Letter to John Pickering (1817)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  A Letter to the Honorable John Pickering, on the Subject of his Vocabulary; or, Collec … more »

Tags: 1810's, dictionaries, language

Item of the Day: Inchiquin, The Jesuit Letters (1810)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  Inchiquin, the Jesuit Letters, During A Late Residence in the United States of America … more »

Tags: 1810's, Poetry, Early Republic

Item of the Day: The Trial of Elizabeth Dutchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy (1776)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The Trial of Elizabeth Dutchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy before the Right Honour … more »

Tags: 1770's, England, Trials

Item of the Day: The Trial at Large of Thomas Paine (1792)1 comment

rdresser wrote 1 year ago:  Full Title:  The Trial at Large of Thomas Paine for a Libel, in The Second Part of Rights of Man. … more »

Tags: 1790's, England, Trials

Item of the Day: Trial of Louis XVI (1793)1 comment

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  Proceedings of the French National Convention on the Trial of Louis XVI. Late King of … more »

Tags: 1790's, France, Trials

Item of the Day: An Appendix to a Letter to Dr. Shebbeare (1775)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  An Appendix to a Letter to Dr. Shebbeare. To Which are Added, Some Observations on a P … more »

Tags: 1770's, American Revolution, Massachusetts, England

Item of the Day: The Rights of the British Colonies by James Otis (1764)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. By James Otis, Esq.  Boston, … more »

Tags: 1760's, Colonial America, Political Commentary

Item of the Day: The Speech of Thomas Erskine at a Meeting of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press (1792)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  The Speech of the Honorable Thomas Erskine, at a Meeting of the Friends to the Liberty … more »

Tags: 1790's, Legal, press, England

Item of the Day: Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (1778)

rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title:  Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 … more »

Tags: american indians, 1770's, Canada, Explorations


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