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Item of the Day: Historical Review of the Consitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic] (1759)
Full Title: An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic], From its Origin; So far as regards the several Points of Controversy, which have, from Time to Time, arisen be… more →
Eighteenth-Century Reading Room
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
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Kerry wrote 1 month ago: Inspired by John Self’s “Art of the Novella Giveaway”, I decided to check out Samu … more →
The crowd outside the bordello
beineckepoetry wrote 8 months ago: A peepshow (or kullisentheater) by Martin Engelbrecht, circa 1750, showing the exterior of a bordell … more →
Item of the Day: Historical Review of the Consitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic] (1759)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic], From its O … more →
Item of the Day: An Account of the European Settlements (1758)
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Matthew Williams wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of … more →
Item of the Day: Chess Analysed (1750)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 1 year ago: Full Title: Chess Analysed: or Instructions by which a Perfect Knowledge of this Noble Game May in a … more →
Item of the Day: Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful (1798)
Matthew Williams wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With … more →
Item of the Day: Voyage to South-America (1758)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, … more →
Item of the Day: Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties (1754)
Matthew Williams wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Works of the Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Vol. II. Lon … more →
Item of the Day: Hume's History of England (1757)
Matthew Williams wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The History of Great Britain. Vol. II. Containing the Commonwealth, and the Reigns of … more →
Item of the Day: First Philippic Oration of Demosthenes (1757)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historica … more →
Item of the Day: Orations of Demosthenes Translated by Mr. Francis (1757)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historica … more →
Item of the Day: Swift's Rules for Servants (1753)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: Miscellanies. By Dr. Swift. The Eleventh Volume. London: Printed for C. Hitch, C. D … more →
Item of the Day: The Adventurer (1770)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The ADVENTURER. By John Hawkesworth. Volume the Fourth. New Edition. London: Printed … more →
Item of the Day: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1758)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By John Brown. Seventh Edition. … more →
Item of the Day: Dr. Mayhew's Election Sermon (1754)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: A Sermon Preach’d in the Audience of His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; Captain … more →
Item of the Day: The History of the Province of New-York (1776)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The History of the Province of New-York, From the First Discovery, To Which is Annexed … more →
Item of the Day: An Account of the European Settlements by William Burke and Edmund Burke (1758)
rdresser wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of … more →
Item of the Day: Harris's Hermes (1751)
Carrie Shanafelt wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal Grammar, by James … more →
Item of the Day: Milton's Areopagitica (1753)
Caroline Fuchs wrote 2 years ago: Full Title: The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now more correctly p … more →
