The life of the late John Elwes, esquire : member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire ... /

"First published in the paper of the World."

Life and times of Stephen Higginson, member of the Continental congress (1783) and author of the "Laco" letters, relating to John Hancock (1789)

Mode of access: Internet.

John Winthrop's proposal respecting electrical globes and jars, ca. 1758

In this proposal, John Winthrop explains the need to replace damaged "electric globes" used in the College's collection of scientific apparatus. He states that Benjamin Franklin, at the time residing in London, was willing to seek replacement globes for the College's collection. Winthrop then proceeds to assert that the College should acquire "square bottles, of a moderate size, fitted in a wooden box, like what they call case bottles for spirits" instead of the large jars included in the scientific apparatus, because those jars cracked frequently.

The summary of a course of experimental lectures in natural philosophy by Dr. John Winthrop (manuscript copy), 1772-1774

Notebook with a handwritten copy of lecture summaries for a physics course given by Harvard Professor John Winthrop. The notes were made by Timothy Foster in 1772 and 1773. The volume contains twenty-five lectures with some diagrams.

L'oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, femme de plaisir. Avec des documents sur la vie à Londres au XVIIIe siècle.

Mode of access: Internet.

A letter from Henry Woodward, comedian, the meanest of all characters; (see Inspector, no.524.) to Dr. John Hill, inspector-general of Great-Britain, the greatest of all characters; (see all the Inspectors.)

A reply to an attack on Woodward by Hill, the authorship of which has also been attributed to Henry Fielding and to Fielding and David Garrick jointly.--Cf. UCLA.

Leben des berühmten amerikanischen Reisenden John Ledyard, des Begleiters von Cook /

Sabin 88976

The life of John Ledyard, the American traveller; comprising selections from his journals and correspondence.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of the Rev. John Wesley ...

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An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Mathematical notebook, and commonplace book, circa 1689-1769

Manuscript notebook, possibly kept by Harvard students, containing 17th century English transcriptions of arithmetic and geometry texts, one of which is dated 1689-1690; 18th century transcriptions from John Ward’s “The Young Mathematician’s Guide”; and notes on physics lectures delivered by John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. The notebook also contains 18th century reading notes on Henry VIII, Tudor succession, and English history from Daniel Neal’s “The History of the Puritans” and David Hume’s “History of England,” and notes on Ancient history, taken mainly from Charles Rollin’s “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.” Additionally included are an excerpt from Plutarch’s “Lives” and transcriptions of three articles from “The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle,” published in 1769: “A Critique on the Works of Ovid”; a book review of “A New Voyage to the West-Indies”; and “Genuine Anecdotes of Celebrated Writers, &.” The flyleaf contains the inscription “Semper boni aliquid operis facito ut diabolus te semper inveniat occupatum,” a variation on a quote of Saint Jerome that translates approximately as “Always good to do some work so that the devil may always find you occupied.” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks. Winthrop used Ward’s textbook in his class, while the books of Hume, Neal, and Rollin were used in history courses taught at Harvard in the 18th century.

New York during the last half century : a discourse in commemoration of the fifty-third anniversary of the New York historical society, and of the dedication of their new edifice,(November 17, 1857).

Mode of access: Internet.

Ordinances of the corporation of the city of Philadelphia; to which are prefixed, the original charter, the Act of incorporation, and other acts of Assembly relating to the city; with an appendix, containing the regulation of the bank of the river Delaware, the portraiture of the city, as originally laid out by the proprietor, &c. &c.

Shaw-Shoemaker #26440.

Observations on the duty on sea-borne coal; and on the peculiar duties and charges on coal, in the port of London. Founded on the reports of Parliamentary committees, and other official documents.

Mode of access: Internet.