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Unknown Menander and Aurelia: or, the triumph of love, and constancy. A novel. ------- Enter'd according to the Act of Parliament.
Unknown A defence of the essay for a review of the Book of Common Prayer, so far as relates to the Athanasian creed. In answer to a letter in the Weekly Miscellany of Octob. 19th last. Wherein Every Argument made use of by the Letter-Writer, is fairly Considered, and clearly Refuted. And that the Nicene Creed is sufficient to secure the Christian Faith from all Heresies, especially the Arian, is fully demonstrated from Athanasius himself. By the author of the essay.
Unknown A Poem on the battle of Dettingen. Inscrib'd to the King.
Unknown The limitation of the peerage, the security of the liberties of the people of England.
Unknown The occasional paper. Vol. III. Numb. III. Containing two letters. One, to the Reverend Dr. Prideaux, occasioned by some considerations which he has offered to the Dissenters, in his 1st Volume of the History of the Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations. Another to the autho r of this paper, in relation to a Passage in the Doctor's Preface to the IId Volume of his History.
Unknown A letter to Mr G-------k, Relative to His treble Capacity of Manager, Actor, and Author; With some Remarks on Lethe.
Unknown The laughter; or, The art of jesting: shewing every man in his humour, from the throne to the cottage; in particular of kings, queens and princes. Of noblemen and ambassadors. Of Gentlemen and Ladies. Of Gallants and Upstarts. Of Soldiers. Of Travellers. Of Politicians. Of Gamesters. Of Popes and Prelates. Of Poets and Musicians. Of Physick and Physicians. Of Lawyers. Of Love and Lovers. Of Husbands and Wives. Of Women. Of Dress. Of Jesters. Of Servants. Of Fools. Of Countrymen and Clowns. Of Thieves. Of Sharpers. Of Beggars. Of drunkards. Of noses, &c. &c. The Second Edition.
Unknown The wreath. A collection of all the favourite new songs sung by the most eminent performers, at the theatres, Ranelagh, Vauxhall, &c. &c. &c.
Unknown The moderator in the present controversy relating to the Peerage Bill.
Unknown The harlot's progress: or, The humours of Drury-Lane. In six cantos. Being the tale of the noted Moll Hackabout, in Hudibrastick verse, containing her whole life; which is a key to the six prints lately publish'd by Mr. Hogarth. I. Her coming to town in the York waggon; her being betray'd by an old baud into the arms of Colonel Ch-s; her early improvement in the sweets of fornication; and some dialogues, serious and comical, between a country girl in the waggon, and a parson. II. Her living with a Jew; some merry intrigues in the Jew's house; with satyrical pictures in the Jew's chamber. III. Her living in a baudy-house in Drury-Lane; her extravagance, company, baudy house equipage, pictures, and other Drury decorations; with her being detected by Sir J---n G---n. IV. Her usage at Tothil-Fields Bridewell; ... V. Her sickness and death; ... VI. Her burial; the funeral pomp of harlots in triumph; six mutes, sisters of the trade; the parson, a very wag; the clerk, a sly-boots; and the undertaker, one of the family of the sad dogs.
Unknown A vindication of Mary, Queen of Scotland, from the vile reflections and foul aspersions of Buchanan. Wherein the affairs of that unfortunate Queen are set in a true light; and supported from the authorities of Cambden, Spotswood, Sir James Melvill, &c. Together with the character of Buchanan and his writings, from the aforesaid authors.
Unknown The trial of Mrs. Branch, and her daughter, for the murder of Jane Buttersworth, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Chapple, at Somerset assizes, March 31, 1740. With a preface, containing an exact acount, taken from the persons who saw the lights in Hemington church-yard, the night before the corpse was taken up, and the true motives for taking up the corpse. To which are added, true copies of some very material informations, taken before Joseph Houlton, and Robert Smith, Esqrs. Justices of the Peace. With a just account of the prisoners behaviour at their trial; at, and after sentence; and at the place of execution.
Unknown London, what it is, not what it was: or, The citizen's complaint against publick nusances. To which is added, a remonstrance against the great number of shops, &c. that sell Geneva and other drams to the poor, and the evil consequences thereof; with some true causes of the increase of the poor.
Unknown Sedition: a poem, Humbly Inscribed to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c.
Unknown A letter to the free-holders of Great-Britain; Occasion'd by the cry of the Danger of the Church.
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.
Unknown Physic in danger: being the complaint of the Company of Undertakers, against the Doctors T-, C-, and D-. Addressed to the College of Physicians: Containing remarks upon the pamphlets lately published by those three gentlemen.
Unknown An essay for discharging the debts of the nation, by equivalents: In a letter to The Right Honble Charles, Earl of Sunderland. And the South-Sea scheme consider'd; In a Letter to the Right Honble Robert Walpole, Esq;
Unknown Past and present, or, times compared: a satire. By the author of One thousand seven hundred and forty-five.
Unknown A calculation of the new scheme for the disposing of the South-Sea property. Wherein is shewn what dividend the South-Sea Company can make on the old foot; What Dividend the New Scheme proposes, and what Dividend (if the Scheme takes Effect) the Three Companies can really make by their present Profits and the Interest of the New Ingrafted Stock. Being what was intended to have been publish'd in the White-Hall Evening-Post.
Unknown The Synod.
Unknown Queries concerning the reasonableness of repealing the Corporation and Test Acts, as far as they relate to the Protestant dissenters; The Objections that may be made against that Repeal; and The most expedient Time for the making it.
Unknown The finish'd rake; or, Gallantry in Perfection. Being the genuine and entertaining adventures, of a young gentleman of fortune. Faithfully extracted from memoirs written with his own Hand, and design'd by him to be publish'd, as is believed, had he not been prevented by Death. The whole being interspers'd with several Curious, Whimfical, and Uncommon incidents; particularly his intrigue with a fine coquette milliner, near one of our most noted Inns of Court, whilst he was a student.
Unknown The fatigues of a great man, or, the plague of serving one's country. A satire. The Second Edition.
Unknown A poem on the death of the Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Hastings.