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The Hive, or, A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental, and religious subjects / selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best and most approved authors of different nations; but chiefly from the most celebrated English writers, who have been esteemed the most correct and elegant models of fine composition : Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose, to which youth may have recourse upon any particular topic; and by which they may be taught to think justly, write correctly and elegantly, and speak with propriety.

Worcester [Mass.] : From the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Sold at his bookstore, and by the booksellers in Boston, 1795.

PML 82288

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The Hive, or, A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental, & religious subjects / selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best and most approved authors of different nations; but chiefly from the most celebrated English writers, who have been esteemed the most correct and elegant models of fine composition : Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose, to which youth may have recourse upon any particular topic; and by which they may be taught to think justly, write correctly and elegantly, and speak with propriety.

Worcester, (Massachusetts) : From the press of Thomas, Son and Thomas: sold at their bookstore and by the booksellers in Boston, June, 1796.

PML 82474

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A discourse and discovery of New-found-land : with many reasons to proove how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is : Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that countrey, and the meanes laid downe for reformation thereof / Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth ... and published by authority ; As also, an invitation: and likewise certaine letters sent from that countrey; which are printed in the latter part of this booke.

Whitbourne, Richard, 1561-1635.

London : Imprinted by Felix Kingston, 1622.

PML 2982

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Grace abounding to the chief of sinners: or, A brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant John Bunyan : Wherein is particularly shewed, the manner of his conversion, his fight and trouble for sin, his dreadful temptations; also how he despaired of Gods mercy, and how the Lord at length through Christ, did deliver him from all the guilt and terrour that lay upon him. All which was written by his own hand, and now published for the support of the weak and tempted people of God.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.

London : Printed for F. Smith at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, at 1s bound, [1672-1679]

PML 17498

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The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the united Prouinces of the lowe countreys, written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence : with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Qveenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament : and her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.

Crompton, Richard, active 1573-1599.

London : Christopher Barker, 1586.

PML 3253

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Under the immediate patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty ... Wombwell's mammoth zoological no. 1 menagerie, the largest in the world : Sevenoaks, during the fair ... Performing male elephant ... Lion & lioness! ... The monster Bengal tiger! ... Senegal leopardess ... Great Arctic monsters; or polar bears. Striped or untameable hyaenas! ... Highly trained group of 13 performing leopards! ... Mrs. Wombwell ... begs to assure her patrons, that her agents, whom she has appointed in every seaport, are constantly sending fresh novelties, so as to render it in every respect unique and replete.

Manchester : John Port, Riding Court, St. Mary's Gate, [186-?]

PML 146639, p. 492 (following)

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The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory, wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful foretasts of it, by the help of meditation / written for the authors own use, in the time of his languishing, when God took him off from all publike imployment, and afterwards preached in his weekly lecture, by Richard Baxter.

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.

London : Printed for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1654.

PML 195319

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Jacob Christian Schäffers Doctors der Gottesgelehrsamkeit und Weltweisheit ... Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790.

Regensburg : [s.n.], 1765.

PML 129707

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Job's Wife and Judith and Holofernes

Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

ca. 1595

1984.46

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Drawings and Prints

Collected engravings of flowers.

Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699.

Paris : N de Poilly, [1660-1690?]

PML 49011

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