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Item of the Day: Swift's Rules for Servants (1753)
Full Title: Miscellanies. By Dr. Swift. The Eleventh Volume. London: Printed for C. Hitch, C. Davis, C. Bathurst, R. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer. MDCCLIII. RULES that concern All Servants in g… more »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Item of the Day: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)
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rdresser wrote 12 months ago: Full Title: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. B … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Item of the Day: From London to Constantinople (1794)
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rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: An Itinerary from London to Constantinople, in Sixty Days (Taken in the Suite of his E … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Item of the Day: The Trial at Large of Thomas Paine (1792)
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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 »
Item of the Day: Trial of Louis XVI (1793)
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rdresser wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: Proceedings of the French National Convention on the Trial of Louis XVI. Late King of … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
