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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.

PML 85613

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A catechism and confession of faith, : approved of and agreed unto by the general assembly of the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, Christ himself chief speaker in and among them. : Which containeth a true and faithful account of the principles and doctrines, which are most surely believed by the churches of Christ in Great Britain and Ireland, who are reproachfully called by the name of Quakers; yet are found in the one faith with the primitive church and saints, as is most clearly demonstrated by some plain Scripture testimonies, without consequences or commentaries, which are here collected and inserted by way of answer to a few weighty, yet easie and familiar questions, fitted as well for the wisest and largest, as for the weakest and lowest capacities. : To which is added, an expostulation with, and appeal to all professors. / By R.B. a servant of the church of Christ. ; [Three lines from John].

Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.

[Philadelphia] : London, printed, and re-printed and sold by Samuel Keimer in Second-Street, Philadelphia., 1726.

PML 3174

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Printed Books

Title Page for a Set of Engravings after Mantegna

Giovanni David

1743-1790

1987.51

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Drawings and Prints

Christ Enthroned, on the Dome of a Circular Temple, Holding a Globe

Circle of Andrea Mantegna

1431-1506

IV, 54

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Drawings and Prints

Decree concerning the deposed Duke Eberhard II of Württemberg, issued at Innsbruck, 19 Nov. 1499.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519.

PML 51780

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

Anabase / Seguita dalle traduzioni di T.S. Eliot e Giuseppe Ungaretti. Illustrata da Berrocal.

Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975.

Verona : Le Rame, 1967.

PML 75021

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Poems / by William Cullen Bryant.

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.

New York : E. Bliss, 1832.

PML 196477

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The letters of T.S. Eliot / edited by Valerie Eliot.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

London : Faber and Faber ; New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989-

PML 128475

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A companion to the altar : shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation, in order to our worthy receiving the Holy Communion, wherein those fears and scruples about eating and drinking unworthily, and of incurring our own damnation thereby, and proved groundless and unwarrantable : unto which are added, Prayers and meditations preparative to a sacramental prepartion, according to what the Church of England requires from her communicants ...

Vickers, William, active 1707-1711.

Oxford : John Baskett, [1770?]

PML 5492.2

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Success / by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912.

PML 19555

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Printed Books