The Library of Mrs. Elizabeth Vesey, 1715-1791: The First of the Blue-stockings, the Friend of Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Goldsmith, Gray, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Montagu, Etc., Etc., and the Hostess of Dr. Johnson and the 'club'. With Other Literature of the Eighteenth CenturyW. H. Robinson, 1926 - 90 pàgines |
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Pàgina 16 - THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited 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.
Pàgina 71 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Pàgina 71 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Pàgina 83 - TALES OF THE GENII; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar.
Pàgina 27 - Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and the backs of books in libraries.
Pàgina 80 - ORIGINAL LETTERS, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III.
Pàgina 58 - CHATTERTON (Thomas). Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others...
Pàgina 11 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years,you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life!
Pàgina 24 - Hermippus Redivivus ; or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein a method is laid down for' prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including a commentary upon an ancient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed ; supported by numerous authorities.
Pàgina 61 - Human Longevity: Recording the Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year of the Decease of 1712 Persons, who Attained a Century, and Upwards, from AD 66 to 1799, Comprising a Period of 1733 Years. With Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable (Salisbury: James Easton, 1799), p.