Select tales. Being a compilation of singular, interesting, remarkable and authentic narratives, ancient and modern. Selected principally from the most esteemed and popular literary works, European and American, the greater part of which have never before been offered to the public in book form.

14th. A remarkable vision of Charles the eleventh of Sweden.--15th. An awful and authentic narrative of the monster Benito de Soto, the pirate of the Morning Star.--16th. The first and last sacrifice.--17th. The tiger's cave; or, The melancholy and tragical fate of Captains Wharton and Lincoln.--18th. The first and last love.--19th. The Scottish landlady, and her lodgers ... by Mr. Galt.--20th. Traditionary anecdotes of the Countess of Stair.--21st. First and last love.--Agnes Fitzroy.--22nd. The death of Alice Bland ... by the author of the Tales of a pilgrim--23d. Herby and his twelve wives.--24th. The murder hole.--25th. A remarkable trial of murders.

The works of Jonathan Swift : containing additional letters, tracts, and poems not hitherto published; with notes, and a life of the author /

v.16. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724.--v.17. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732.--v.18. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from May 19, 1732, to October 23, 1736.--v.19. Epistolary corresondence. Letters from October 30, 1736, to February 14, 1750. Appendix to the original correspondence between Dean Swift and his friends. Correspondence between Swift and Miss Vanhomrigh. Index.

Thoughts selected from the ancient and modern poets.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of Ireland, ancient and modern; taken from the most authentic records, and dedicated to the Irish brigade.

Revised ed. [-pir.]

Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. : to which are added, some poems never before printed /

Publisher statement in v. 2: Printed for Messrs. G. Burnet, R. Moncrieffe ... [and 7 others].

Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ : familiar letters domestick and foreign, divided into four books; partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history, ancient and modern, delivered in the University of Edinburgh,

Mode of access: Internet.

Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign; divided into four books: partly historical, political, philosophical. Upon emergent occasions.

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The works of Benjamin Franklin; containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private, not hitherto published; with notes and a life of the author.

"List of the author's writings, chronologically arranged": v. 10, p. [449]-463.

A Description of more than three hundred animals, including quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects : forming a compendium of natural history, confirmed by actual and personal observations : with original remarks, and interesting quotations from ancient and modern authors : to which is subjoined a new and curious appendix upon allegorical and fabulous animals.

Includes indexes.

The family receipt book : containing eight hundred valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy; selected from the works of the most approved writers, ancient and modern; and from the attested communications of scientific friends.

Includes index.

A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary, comprising an explanation of terms and principles of pure and mixed mathematics, and such branches of natural philosophy as are susceptible of mathematical investigation. With historical sketches of the rise, progress and present state of the several departments of these sciences, and an account of the discoveries and writings of the most celebrated authors, both ancient and modern.

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Memoirs of the loves of the poets; biographical sketches of women celebrated in ancient and modern poetry.

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Boxiana; or, Sketches of ancient and modern pugilism, from the days of the renowned Broughton and Slack, to the championship of Cribb.

Bound in full calf with gold tooled spines by Sawyer.

Institutes of ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern,

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