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The child's grammar : designed to enable ladies who may not have attended to the subject themselves to instruct their children : containing a very plain and easy explanation of the several parts of speech, exemplified in the most familiar manner in sentences suited to the capaci[t]ies of children, followed by parsing lessons, resolved into their elements to try the progress of the pupil : and also the plainest explanation of the modes and tenses, and a second set of parsing lessons suited to a scholar more advanced in grammar : with directions for full examination.

London (No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane; and, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside) : Printed by and for John Marshall, [1794]

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The adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia : a romance, being the rise, progress, tryals and happy success of the heroic loves of those two illustrious persons : wherein the following histories are intermix'd, I. The treacherous slave, or, Cruel Step-mother, II. The wandering prelate, III. The fighting priest, IV. The royal adultress : with several other curious events : in two volumes / written originally in Greek by Heliodorus ... in the fourth century of Christianity, who chose to be depriv'd of his bishoprick rather than destroy this book, design'd by him for the promotion of virtuous loves.

Heliodorus, of Emesa.

London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., E. Curll, R. Gosling and J. Hooke ... and J. Browne ... and J. Osborn ..., 1717.

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The royal standard English dictionary : in which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, and their part of speech properly distinguished, and their various significations arranged in one line; but likewise, by a key to this work ... it exhibits their true pronunciation ... : to which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language : to the whole is added, the Scripture proper names ... : names of the principal cities, rivers, mountains, &c. in the known world : also, the ancient and modern poets, philosophers, and statesmen, &c. ... / by William Perry ...

Perry, William, active 18th century.

Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Leonard Worcester, for Isaiah Thomas ; [Brookfield, Mass.] : Sold at his bookstore, by said Thomas, & Waldo, in Brookfield ; [Walpole, N.H.] : And said Thomas, & Carlisle, in Walpole ; Sold also, in Boston : By sai

PML 82291

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The new book of constitutions of the most ancient and honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons : containing their history, charges, regulations ... also some rules necessary to be observed by the committee of charity, not published before, together with a choice collection of mason's songs, poems, prologues, and epilogues pub. by the order, and with the sanction of the Grand-lodge / collected from the book of constitutions published in England, in the year 1738, by ... James Anderson ... for the use of the lodges in Ireland, by Edward Spratt ...

Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739.

Dublin : Printed by J. Butler, for the editor, 1751.

PML 142057

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Mr. Wm. Gore Elliston has the honor of announcing to his Friends, the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public generally, that his Benefit will take place on Thursday next, June 22, 1826. When will be performed, a Comic Opera, in 2 Acts, called The Wager; Or, The Midnight Hour ... Between the Play and Farce, A Concert, in which Mr. Braham will sing, "Kelvin Grove," and "Blue Bonnets o'er the Borders ... A Pas de Deux by Monsieur Vestris and Madame Pauline ... To conclude with the Comedy, in 2 Acts, called Charles the Second ...

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A sorrowful spectacle. : In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. : The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. : The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. : With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. / by Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [One line from Acts].

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish, on the north side of the Town-House, in King-Street,, 1715.

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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 history of little Goody Two-Shoes : otherwise called, Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes. With the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom, and in consequence thereof her estate ; set forth at large for the benefit of those, who from a state of rags and care, and having shoes but half a pair ; their fortune and their fame would fix, and gallop in a coach and six. See the original manuscript in the Vatican at Rome, and the cuts by Michael Angelo. Illustrated with the comments of our great modern critics.

[London] : [L.G. Challenger], [1965]

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Historische Bilder Bibel : vorstellend die Geschichte der h. Patriarchen und Ertz Vätter, der Richter unter dem Volck Gottes, wie auch der Könige und Propheten Heiliger Göttlicher Schrifft Altes Testaments wie auch was in dem Neuen Testament beschriben von Historien so sich zugetragen haben mit Christo Jesu unserm Erlöser auch seinen Heiligen Aposteln, dess gleichen alle englische Erscheinunge[n] und was sonsten in allen Ständen denckwürdiges darinn aufgezeichnet zu finden zur Ehre Gottes, und Christlicher Seelen andächtiger Beschauung, mit Fleiss gezeichnet, in Küpffer gestochen, verlegt und herausgegeben / von Johann Ulrich Kraüssen.

Krauss, Johann Ulrich, 1645-1719.

Augspurg : Johann Ulrich Kraüssen, 1702.

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Hoc volvmine continentvr haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I.

Caesar, Julius.

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, M.DXIII. mense Aprili [April 1513].

PML 1192

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