Political Writing

Name Political Writing
Description

Appeal, letter, defence, essay, address, summary, supplement, or reflection relating to society, culture, government. 

Titles

Displaying 801–825 of 868

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25084 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from their commitment to their goal-delivery. Taken from a diary, kept by a gentleman in the same prison. Unknown ,
1717
25918 The shortest way with the King: or, plain English spoke to His Majesty. Being the third part of Neck or nothing; containing, The Secret History of King George's Reign, from the Death of the late Queen, to the Report made in the House of Commons, by the Committee of Secrecy. Introduc'd with the Secret Reign of the Monarchs of Great-Britain, for the last Sixty Years. The whole Discoveries humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Right Honourable James Stanhope, Esq; one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. By Mr. John Dunton, Author of the First and Second Part of Neck or Nothing. Dunton , John
 1715
25917 The snake in the grass, discover'd; or, observations on a late pamphlet, intituled, Considerations on the present state of the nation, as to publick credit, Stocks, the Landed and Trading Interests; with a Proposal for the Speedy Lessening the Publick Debts, and Restoring Credit, in a Manner consistent with Parliamentary Engagements. 1720
26192 The Soliloquy. Unknown ,
Hannah Humphrey [18 New Bond Street] (London)
1782
22631 The speech of a noble peer: made in the House of Lords in Ireland, when the Priviledge-Bill was in debate there. Unknown , [Man]
 1728
24307 The state of England in 1588. In a letter from a priest at London to the Spanish ambassador at Paris: Giving A particular Account of our Warlike Preparations, with the Names of the Nobility and Gentry, &c. as well Catholick as Protestant, who voluntarily and generously raised, headed, and maintained great Numbers for Sea and Land, to support their Sovereign, and defend their Country. Shewing Our vast Power and Riches, contrary to the contemptible Opinion had of us in Spain; also, an Account of the Spanish Armada. To which are added, The Examinations of many Prisoners, their Losses by Battle, Tempests and contrary Winds on the Coaste of Ireland, in their Return from the North Isles of Scotland, &c. Burghley , William Cecil
 John Millan [Horse Guards, near Whitehall] (London)
Mary Cooper [The Globe] (London)
1746
22513 The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London: who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy. Love , Christopher
Grey , Jane
Wallace , Eglantine
Jurieu , Pierre
Nixon , Robert
Ussher (or Usher) , James
 1701
26381 The Sublime Character of his Excellency Somebody. In the true Droll Style of an Embassador. Originally wrote by a celebrated French Wit at, or before, or since the Time his Excellency Horatio Walpole, resided at the Court of France, and now made English by Sir Niky Uncommon-Sense, Knt. and Laureatteer. For the Amusement of Everybody. Unknown ,
Eliza Haywood (London)
1741
1209 The Tendency of Strikes and Sticks to Produce Low Wages, and of Union Between Masters and Men to Ensure Good Wages. By Harriet Martineau. Martineau , Harriet
 John Hardinge Veitch (Durham)
1834
25687 The thoughts of an honest Tory, being an answer to the thoughts of an honest Whig: wherein Mr. Place's examination of the Bishop of Bangor's undisturb'd scheme is re-examin'd in some of its particulars. By a presbyter of the Church of England, lately curate of St. Asaph, now curate of Bangor. Unknown ,
James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1719
4714 The three warnings, a tale. By Mrs. Thrale. Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale
 1792
13581 The trial of John Horne Tooke, for high treason, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday the seventeenth, Tuesday the eighteenth, Wednesday the nineteenth, Thursday the twentieth, Friday the twenty-first, and Saturday the twenty-second of November. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney. Gurney , Joseph
 1795
26194 The Union. Unknown ,
Elizabeth Darchery (London)
1783
295 The Village Disputants; or, A Conversation on the Subject of the Present Times, between Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod the Mason: submitted to the perusal and consideration of all the mechanics, journeymen, and labourers in Great Britain More , Hannah
 1817
14551 The Village Disputants; or, A Conversation on the Subject of the Present Times, between Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod the Mason: submitted to the perusal and consideration of all the mechanics, journeymen, and labourers in Great Britain. The seventeenth edition. More , Hannah
 John Hatchard and Son [187 Piccadilly] (London)
1819 The seventeenth edition.
1003 The Warning. Recommended to the Serious Attention of all Christians, and Lovers of their Country Heyrick , Elizabeth
 1805
22088 The whole art of war: Or, A military dictionary. Containing an explication of the terms, and an account of the things signified thereby in fortification, gunnery, &c. The method of encamping an army, besieging of towns, &c. With the qualifications necessary to make a general or commander in chief, to a private centinel. Written by an officer who serv'd in all the wars of the Late King William and Queen Anne. Unknown ,
Ebenezer Rider (Dublin)
1741
13578 The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king’s attorney-general against Thomas Paine for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established; and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and Parliament of this Kingdom, and upon the King. Tried by a Special Jury in the Court of King's Bench, Guild-hall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792. Before the right Honourable Lord Kenyon. Taken in Short-Hand by Joseph Gurney. Gurney , Joseph
 1793
13579 The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king’s attorney-general against Thomas Paine for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established; and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and Parliament of this Kingdom, and upon the King. Tried by a Special Jury in the Court of King's Bench, Guild-hall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792. Before the right Honourable Lord Kenyon. Taken in Short-Hand by Joseph Gurney. Second edition. Gurney , Joseph
 1793 Second edition.
14580 The works of Sallust, translated into English. With political discourses upon that author. To which is added, a translation of Cicero's four orations against Catiline. Crispus , Gaius Sallustius
 John Smith [Blind Quay] (Dublin)
1744
24116 The yea and nay stock-jobbers, or The 'change-alley quakers anatomiz'd. In a burlesque epistle to a friend at sea. Bockett , Elias
 James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
Jane Billingsley (London)
1720
14017 Thoughts on the causes and consequences of the present high price of provisions. Jenyns , Soame
 Elizabeth Watts [m. Lynch in 1768] (Dublin)
1768
6533 Thoughts on the condition of women, and on the injustice of mental subordination. By Mary Robinson. Second edition. Robinson , Mary
 Thomas Norton Longman III (London)
George Woodfall [Paternoster] (London)
Owen Rees (London)
1799 Second edition.
13584 Thoughts on the Impending Invasion of England. By W. Fox. Fox , William
13859 Thoughts on various charitable and other important institutions, and on the best mode of conducting them. To which is subjoined an address to the females of the rising generation. By Catharine Cappe. Dedicated, by permission, to William Wilberforce, Esq. Cappe , Catharine
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
John Hatchard [173 Piccadilly] (London)
Thomas Wilson and Sons (York)
John and George Todd (York)
1814

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