A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature: Which are Now Selling, for Ready Money, at the Prices Affixed to Each Article by W. Ford, Part 1

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C. Wheeler and son, 1810
 

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Page 249 - 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.
Page 183 - AngKcaiue ; or, an Essay towards deducing a regular Succession of all the principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, Collegiate Church, or Chapel (now in being), in those Parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, from the first Erection thereof to...
Page 201 - FAMILY EXPOSITOR; Or, a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament : with Critical Notes, and a Practical Improvement of each Section.
Page 125 - Britton, John, The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain; represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices, with historical and descriptive accounts of each, 5 vols., 1807-27.
Page 128 - A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm, from the 49th of King Henry III. until these present Times, SK.
Page 146 - Thomas Campanella an Italian friar and second Machiavel. His advice to the King of Spain for attaining the universal monarchy of the World.
Page 212 - A Short Dialogue proving that the Ceremonyes, and some other Corruptions now in question, are defended, by none other Arguments then such as the Papists have heretofore used . . . and our Protestant writers have long since answered.
Page 162 - CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES, with an Essay on his Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, and Glossary, by THOMAS TYRWHITT.
Page 202 - View of the State of Religion in the Western parts of the World. The style of Johnson was, undoubtedly much formed upon that of the great writers in the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell. and others ; those
Page 249 - Paradoxe or Thesis that Selfhomicide is not so naturally Sin that it may never be otherwise.

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