Essays

Name Essays
Description

Prose compositions, remarks, critical reflections, or guides on any particular subject.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25137 A visit to the South-Sea Company and the Bank. In a letter to a friend, concerning the late proposals for the payment of the nation's debts. The second edition. To which is added, a second letter, occasion'd by what has past since, in relation to the South-Sea Company's bargain. Milner , James
 James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1720 The second edition.
25618 All for the better; or, the world turn'd up-side down. Being the history of the head-longs and the long-heads, with several characters of both, in the following six novels, viz. I. The fruitless scandal. II. The dutiful son. III. The Penitent Miser. IV. Chastity Rewarded. V. Avarice Punished. VI. The fantastic ambition. Intermingled with various Discourses and a Candid Examination, and Censure of the management and Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea Company; with infallible Rules, how those who have been Gainers by it, may preserve their Gains; and how the Losers may infallably and amply retrieve their Losses. To which is added, by way of a postscript: The Woolfe strip'd of his Sheeps Clothing; or, the Fox-Hunter [Uncaied]; being some short Reflections on the Ten Queries propos'd to the Directors of the South-Sea Company by an annonimous member of Parliament. Gildon , Charles
 1720
25040 An Account of a New Process in Painting. In Two Parts. Part I Containing Remarks on its General Correspondence with the Peculiarities of the Venetian School. Part II Supplementary Details, explanatory of the process, with Miscellaneous Observations on the Arts of the Sixteenth Century. Cleaver , Elizabeth
 Francis, Charles and John Rivington (London)
1821
25390 An account of a scheme for preventing the exportation of our wool, where the Particulars of it are set forth, and the Methods of putting it in Execution exemplified. To which is added, an examination of a scheme offered by another hand, shewing the Defects and mischievous Consequences of it; as also Several material Extracts from Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Brewster, concerning the Consequences of the Woollen Trade, and the fatal Effects arising to this Nation from the Exportation of our Wool. Dedicated to the Hon. the House of Commons. By Samuel Webber. Webber , Samuel
 1736
24926 An acompte Current Betwixt Scotland & England Ballanced: Togeter with An Essay of a Scheme of the Product of Scotland, and a few Remarks on each. As also A View of the several Products of the Ports or Nations we Trade to, by Comparing and holding forth how our Products and Manufactures may Ballance theirs, with Returns. By J. S. A Lover of our protestant Queen, Countrey, and Trade. Spruel , John
 1705
6632 An address to the gentlemen under the denomination of old bachelors. By Miss Casandra, Author of the Conduct of the Military Gentlemen. Published by the Desire of a Man of Quality. , Miss Cassandra
 1757
2222 An address to the people of Ireland; shewing them why they ought to submit to an union. Emmet , Mary Anne
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1799
25975 An answer to a scandalous libel, entitled, The impertinence and imposture of modern antiquaries display'd: or, a refutation of the Reverend Mr. Wise's letter to Dr. Mead, concerning the White Horse, and other Antiquities in Berkshire. North , George
 John Whiston (London)
Charles Corbett (London)
John Jolliffe (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
1741
25988 An answer to the considerations, occasioned by the Craftsman upon excise, so far as it relates to the tobacco trade. Unknown ,
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
1733
25299 An appeal to the publick: Or, a Plain Narrative of Facts, Relating to the Proceedings of a Party of the Governors of the New General-Hospital at Bath, against Mr. Archibald Cleland, (one of the Surgeons of the said Hospital) At an Extraordinary Meeting of the Governors, held in their General Committee-Room, the 21st of September, 1743. Cleland , Archibald
 1743
3798 An enquiry concerning the principles of taste, and of the origin of our ideas of beauty, &c. Reynolds , Frances
 1785
3840 An enquiry concerning the principles of taste, and of the origin of our ideas of beauty, &c. Reynolds , Frances
 1789
25641 An epistle to His Grace the Duke of Grafton. With stanza's on the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess of Saxe-Gotha. B. , W.
 Anne Dodd I (London)
1736
25369 An essay for a review of the Book of common prayer. To which is added, a specimen thereof. Submitted to the Consideration of those in Authority. Attempted by an impartial hand. Unknown ,
Thomas Cooper (London)
1734
15667 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The fourth edition, corrected. Astell , Mary
 Samuel Butler (London)
1721 The fourth edition, corrected.
15665 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In which are inserted characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. Astell , Mary
 Abel Roper II and Elizabeth Wilkinson (London)
Robert Clavel (London)
1696
15668 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In which are inserted characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The second edition. Astell , Mary
 Abel Roper II and Elizabeth Wilkinson (London)
Robert Clavel (London)
1696 The second edition.
15666 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In which are inserted characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The third edition, with additions. Astell , Mary
 Robert Clavel (London)
Abel Roper II (London)
1697 The third edition, with additions.
5212 An essay in defence of the female sex. Interspersed with reflections upon love and taste. Written for the honour of the fair sex. By a lady. Unknown , [Woman]
 Charles Hitch (London)
Robert Akenhead Jr. (Newcastle)
1750
24894 An Essay on a new theory of Colours, and on composition in general; illustrated by coloured blots shewing the application of the theory to flowers, landscapes, figures, &c. In three parts, By M. Gartside, Part I. The second edition. Gartside , Mary
 Thomas Gardiner (London)
William Miller [Albemarle Street] (London)
John and Arthur Arch [Cornhill] (Cornhill)
1808 The Second Edition
372 An Essay on Christian Education Trimmer , Sarah
 1818
14415 An essay on coin. By Bryan Robinson, M.D. Robinson , Bryan
 George and Alexander Ewing (Dublin)
1757
24895 An essay on Light and Shade, on colours, and on composition in general. By M. Gartside. Gartside , Mary
 1805
25210 An Essay on Man: Being the First Book of the Ethic Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With a Commentary and Notes by William Warburton, A.M. Pope , Alexander
 Mary Cooper (London)
1743
25209 An essay on ridicule. By Mr. William Whitehead, Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Whitehead , William
 Robert Dodsley (London)
1743

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