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Unknown The Ball; or, Un passo tempo: a poem. Displaying the vices, follies, extravagancies, amours, and intrigues of our modern gentry to pass away their time. Particularly the ridotto-ladies, at the Opera-Theatre.
Unknown A second and last collection of the most celebrated prologues and epilogues spoken at the theatres of Drury-Lane and Lincolns-Inn. To which is added, a poem entitled, the progress of life. The Second Edition.
Unknown Polly Peachum's opera. Containing a medley of new songs, ... adapted to the several tunes she sings in The beggar's opera: with the ballad inserted in the Country journal; or crafts-man of Saturday, April 13. 1728. To which is annex'd a new ballad, ... Dedicated to Sir R- F-, Bart. By a person who performs one of the principal parts in The beggar's opera.
Unknown A political resemblance of a war, in the behaviour of all countries: being set forth in a complaint against the fix'd observators, the French in particular, who daily, during this summer season, crowd the benches in St. James's park. To which is added, the Frenchman outwitted. A tale.
Unknown A Dissertation on national churches: Or, The happy influences of society in its improved state, as modell'd by the Christian institutes.
Unknown The patrician. To be continu'd weekly. Numb. IV. Considerations on the peerage continu'd, with remarks on the plebeian, numb IV. By One who is neither a knight, nor a member of the House of Commons.
Unknown The Quaker's opera. As it is perform'd at Lee's and Harper's Great Theatrical Booth in Bartholomew-Fair. With the musick prefix'd to each song.
Unknown A poem, Sacred to the Memory of the Honourable The Lady Aber-ny. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Quality of Great-Britain, &c.
Unknown An historical account of the plague at Marseilles. Giving a particular relation of all the different occurrences that happen'd during the visitation in that city. Publish'd by authority at Paris, and faithfully translated from the original French. By a Physician. To which is added, a letter from Monsier Pons, physician of the faculty of Montpelier, wrote from Marseilles (while he resided there by order of the regent) to Monsieur de Bon Chevalier, first president of the Court of Aids and Finances of Montpelier; discovering the nature and cause of the pestilence, its symptoms, and the methods and medicines used for the recovery of the infected.
Unknown The true and genuine account of the confession (whilst under sentence of death) of Thomas Jones, and James Welch, for the barbarous rape and murder of Sarah Green, ... Together with a genuine account of the remarkable robberies committed by Matthias Keys, and Henry Bryan. ...
Unknown The Occasional paper. Vol. II. Numb. IX. of societies for reformation of manners; with an address to magistrates.
Unknown Pleasure for a minute; or, The Amorous Adventure: a tale. To which are subjoin'd, the Grecian dame, dream of Venus, the lover's interrogatories, the water-engine, and other love-poems.
Unknown The lady's drawing room. Being a faithfull picture of the great world. In which the various humours of both sexes are display'd. Drawn from the life: and Interspers'd with entertaining and affecting Novels.
Unknown Of the original and ends of government : the indispensable duty of magistrates, and power of princes, distinguishing them from tyrants. Together with A Short View of the several Forms of Government, and different Administrations in the Old Testament. To which are added, Some remarkable Instances of God's Severity towards the rebellious Kings of Israel and Judah. AS Also An Account of the Last Resort in Matters of Controversy. And a brief vindication of the rights and liberties of the people.
Unknown The little warbler of the cottage, and her dog Constant. By a lover of children.
Unknown The fall of Bob: or, the oracle of gin. A tragedy. By Timothy Scrubb, of Rag-Fair, Esq;
Unknown Reasons against impeaching the late ministry. Being a full answer to all that has been alledg'd for an impeachment.
Unknown The history of the Sheriffdom of the city of London and county of Middlesex. Containing the original method of electing Sheriffs for the said city and county; an Account of the several Alterations that have happen'd in such Elections; in whom the Right of Choice has resided, and by whom the Elections have been managed, from the first granting of the Charter to the Citizens to choose Sheriffs from among themselves, in the Reign of Henry the First, and Third King from the Conquest, to the present Time, Polls and Scrutinies, when sirs began, and how, and by whom to be managed. With faithful Relation of the Case of Mr. Papillon and Mr. Dubois, in the Reign of King Charles II. Upon which follow'd the seizing of the City Charter into that Prince's Hands. The Whole Extracted from Historians, Charters, and Acts of Common-Council. To which is added the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice concerning the power of the Lord Maior in these elections, as deliver'd by him in his Charge to the Jury, in the famous Trial between Sir William Pritchard and Mr. Papillon. And the several acts of Common-Council since made, to settle that Magistrate's [illegible] Elections.
Unknown The jew decoy'd; or the progress of a harlot. A new ballad opera of three acts. The airs set to old ballad tunes.
Unknown The Importance of Jamaica to Great-Britain, consider'd. With some account of that island, from its discovery in 1492 to this time: and a list of the governors and presidents, with an account of their towns, harbours, bays, buildings, inhabitants, whites and negroes, &c. The country and people cleared from misrepresentations; the misbehaviour of Spanish governors by entertaining pirates, and plundering the inhabitants and merchants of Jamaica, and the rise of the pirates among them. An account of their fruits, drugs, timber and dying-woods, and of the uses they are apply'd to there: with a description of exotick plants, preserved in the gardens of the curious in England; and of the kitchen and flower-gardens in the West-Indies. Also of their beasts, birds, fishes, and insects; with their eatables and potables, distempers and remedies. With an account of their trade and produce; with the advantages they are of to Great-Britain, Ireland, and the colonies in North-America, and the commodities they take in return from them, with the danger they are in from the French at Hispaniola, and their other islands and settlements on the continent, by the encouragements they have over the British planters. With instances of insults they have given His Majesty's subjects in the West-Indies and on the main. With the representation of His Late Majesty when elector of Hanover, and of the House of Lords, against a peace, which could not be safe or honourable if Spain or the West-Indies were allotted to any branch of the House of Bourbon. In a letter to a gentleman. In which is added, a postscript, of the benefits which may arise by keeping of Carthagena, to Great-Britain and our American colonies; with an account of what goods are used in the Spanish trade, and hints of settling it after the French method (by sending of women there) and of the trade and method of living of the Spaniards; and English South-Sea Company's factors there.
Unknown Portraits of curious characters in London, &c. &c. With descriptive and entertaining anecdotes.
Unknown The occasional writer reviv'd. With some seasonable recollections for the benefit of the people.
Unknown The fatigues of a great man: or, the plague of serving one's country. A satyre.
Unknown A scheme or proposal for taking off the several taxes on land, soap, starch, Candles, Leather, Plate, Pots, &c. and replacing the said duties by another tax, which will bring in more Money, in a more Easy and Equal Manner, and less burthensome to the Subject: Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament, as also the People of England, for whose Ease and Benefit this is design'd. Plainly proving, That the Duties on Soap, Candles, and Leather, which do not bring in 600,000 l. a Year, cost the Subject more than double that Sum: So that this Method is calculated to ease the People of one Half of the Sum they now pay, on Account of those several Taxes, and at the same Time Encrease the Revenue. To which is added, Some Considerations on the several Duties upon Tea, Coffee, Chocolat, and Salt, which may be also taken off, and replaced by the same Method, with any Thing else, that is either burthensome to Trade, or a Hardship upon particular Persons, of which the Pot-Act is a glaring Instance; and upon any Emergency a larger Sum may be raised.
Unknown A full answer to Shepheard the assassine's speech. wherein the falshood of all his traiterous calumnies against his Majesty are laid open, and the arguments put in his mouth to justify the hellish design of murdering his Majesty are confuted. To which is added an account of the treasonable sermon of Edward Bisse, Incumbent of St. George's Parish, in the County of Somerset, near Bristol, with proper remarks upon it. The Third Edition.

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