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The American reader : a selection of lessons for reading and speaking, wholly from American authors : embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning : furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence, from the Presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, station of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life : containing rules for the proper use of the pauses, for graceful and persuasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture, to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge : with an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand : designed for the use of schools / by Joseph Richardson.

Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871.

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1810.

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The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.

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A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been, or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ...

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

New York : Printed for the Grolier Club, 1886.

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The Dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copper-plates / done from the original designs, which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted, by John Holbein, in the town-house of Basil. To which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. Etched by D. Deuchar, F. A. S.

London : Printed by W. Smith & Co., ... for J. Scott, ... and Thomas Ostell, 1803.

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The myrrour or glasse of helth necessary and nedefull for every person to loke in that wyll kepe theyr body from the sekenes of the pestylence; and it sheweth howe the planettes reygne in every houre of the daye and the nyght with the natures and exposycyons of the .xii. sygnes, devyded by the .xii. monthes of the yere. And sheweth the remedyes, for many dyvers infyrmytes and dyseases that hurteth the body of man.

Moulton, Thomas.

[London, Wyllyam Myddelton, 1545?]

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The trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer : who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the government; and acquitted. With a narrative of his case. To which is now added, being never printed before, the trial of Mr. William Owen, bookseller, near Temple-Bar, who was also charged with the publication of a libel against the government; of which he was honourably acquitted by a jury of free-born Englishmen, citizens of London.

Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746.

London : Printed for J. Almon, 1765.

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Unique collection of drawings & prints, a catalogue of all the great and valuable collection of ancient drawings, scarce prints, and books of prints, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased ... : also, a few bronzes ... [etc.] and a small library of books, treating of the arts : which ... will be sold by auction by Mr. H. Phillips, at his Great Room, 67, New Bond Street, on Monday, March 5, 1798, and seventeen successive days ...

Phillips, H.

[London] : Catalogues ... may be had of Mr. Lloyd, bookseller ... at Mr. Phillips's house ... and at his Great Room ..., 1798.

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A form, or order of thanksgiving and prayer : to be used in London, and ten miles round it, on Sunday the 15th of this instant January, and throughout England on Sunday the 29th of the same month, by all parsons, vicars, and curates, in their respective parish churches, and chapels, in behalf of the King, the Queen, and the royal family, upon occasion of the Queen's being with child. By His Majestie's special command.

London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1687 [i.e. 1688]

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Ducatus leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous towns and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent, in the West-Riding of the county of York ... extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts / by Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. To which is added ... a catalogue of his museum ... Also a catalogue of manuscripts, the various editions of the Bible, and of books published in the infancy of the art of printing ...

Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.

Leeds : Printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816.

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A token for children : being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of several young children / by James Janeway ... To which is added, A token for the children of New-England, or, Some examples of children, in who[m] [th]e fear of God was remarkably budding before th[ey] [d]ied, in several parts of New England : preserved and published for the encouragement of piety in other children.

Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.

Boston [Mass.] : Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, in Back-Street, near the Mill-Bridge, 1771.

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