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Item of the Day: A New Discourse of Trade [1745]
Full Title: A New Discourse of Trade: Wherein Are recommended several weighty Points, relating to Companies of Merchants; The Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, and our Woollen Manufactur… more →
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Item of the Day: A New Discourse of Trade [1745]
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: A New Discourse of Trade: Wherein Are recommended several weighty Points, relating to Co … more →
Item of the Day: Polybius, translated by Edward Spelman (1743)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: A Fragment Out of the Sixth Book of Polybius, Containing a Dissertation upon Government … more →
Item of the Day: Utopia (1743)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: Utopia: or the Happy Republic; a Philosophical Romance, in two books. Book I. Containing … more →
Item of the Day: The Works of Sallust (1744)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: The Works of Sallust, Translated into English. With Political Discourse upon that Author … more →
Item of the Day: Epistles of Phalaris, 1749 (cont'd)
Matthew Williams wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epi … more →
Item of the Day: Young's Night Thoughts (1812)
Matthew Williams wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality. By Edward Young, L … more →
Item of the Day: The Gentleman's Magazine [1749]
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XIX. For the Year M.DCC … more →
Item of the Day: The Epistles of Phalaris (1749)
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Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epi … more →
Item of the Day: Rochefoucault's Maxims (1749)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: Moral Maxims: By the Duke de la Roche Foucault. Translated from the French. With notes. … more →
Item of the Day: Gordon's Sallust (1744)
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Works of Sallust, Translated into English. With Political Discourses upon that Autho … more →
Item of the Day: Cobden's Sermon on Chastity (1749)
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Carrie Shanafelt wrote 2 years ago: Printed in: Sylvanus Urban, Gent., Editor. The Gentleman’s Magazine for March 1749. Printed by … more →
Item of the Day: The World In Miniature (1741)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The World in Miniature: or, The Entertaining Traveler. Giving an Account of every Thin … more →
Item of the Day: Walpole's Private Correspondence
Caroline Fuchs wrote 3 years ago: Full Title: Private Correspondence of Harace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Now first collected. In four v … more →
Item of the Day: A Fragment out of the sixth book of Polybius (1743)
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 3 years ago: Full Title: A Fragment out of the sixth book of Polybius, containing a dissertation upon government … more →
Item of the Day: The Spectator, 8 vols., 1745
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 4 years ago: From Volume I, No. 1. Thursday, March 1. 1710-11.* [Joseph Addison and Richard Steele]. I HAVE obser … more →
The Origins of the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Racism and Historical Memory in Colonial New York
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 3 years ago: The following essay is by Michael Brenes of Hunter College, who tied for first place in the 2006 Eig … more →
Item of the Day: The Young Mathematician’s Guide (1740)
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 3 years ago: Full Title: The Young Mathematician’s Guide: Being a Plain and Easy Introduction to the Mathematicks … more →
Item of the Day: The World in Miniature (1740)
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 3 years ago: Full Title: The World in Miniature: or, the Entertaining Traveler. Giving an Account of every Thing … more →
