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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Bodleian Library (Oxford)<ESTCID>T180313<Notes>A lady = Catherine Talbot.<imprintFull>London: printed for John and Francis Rivington, 1774. <collation>48p.; 12

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Cambridge University LibraryT143658A lady = Catharine Talbot.London: printed for John and Francis Rivington, 1771. 48p.; 12

To Which Are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter To Mrs. Vesey, Between The Years 1763 And 1787; Published From The Original Manuscripts In The Possession Of The Rev. Montagu Pennington. In Four Volumes.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT098188Most gatherings have horizontal chain lines.London: printed by John Rivington, jun. for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1780. 6],336p.; 8

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: knows the obligations of every relation in life: He fees, in their full light, the reciprocal duties of parents and children, of hufbands and wives, of neighbours and fellow-fervants. He knows the aggravated guilt of every offence againft thefe ties of fociety, however we may be difpofed to treat them as trifles: and every piece of ftubbornnefs and pride, of ill humour and paffion, of anger and re- fentment, of fullennefs and perverfe- nefs, expofes us to His juft indignation. MONDAT. ( 9 ) MONDAY. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS. R Lord and Suviour has pronounced this blefiednefs, and through his Grace, I hope to partake of it. Hunger and Thirft, naturally prompt us to feek, without delay, the means of iatisfying them. What then is the food of the mind? Wholefome in- ftruclion, and religious meditation. If, then, I fincerely do hunger and thirft after Righteoufnefs, I Cull be frequently feeding my mind with pious books and thoughts; I fhall make the returns of thefe meals as A 5 reguregular as I can, and feldom fliall I find any neceffity ftrong enough to make me mifs them a whole day together. But then it ought to be remembered too, that even thefe, the beft hours of my life, ought never to encroach upon the duties and employment of my Ration, whatever they may be. Am 1 in a fuperior ftation in life ? My duty then probably takes in a large compafs; and I am accountable to my Maker for all thofe talents entrufted with me by him, for the benefit of my fellow- creatures. I nmft not think of living to myfelf alone, or devoting that time to imitate the employment of Angels, which was given me for the fcrvice of men. Religion muft be my chief end, and my beft delight: It muft regulate all I think, or do, MONDAY. . . II but whatever m...

To Which Are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter To Mrs. Vesey, Between The Years 1763 And 1787; Published From The Original Manuscripts In The Possession Of The Rev. Montagu Pennington. In Four Volumes.

To Which Are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter To Mrs. Vesey, Between The Years 1763 And 1787; Published From The Original Manuscripts In The Possession Of The Rev. Montagu Pennington. In Four Volumes.