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Self knowledge: a treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of that important science, and the way to attain it. Intermixed with various reflections and observations on human nature. By John Mason, A.M. [Two lines of quotations]
Mason, John, 1706-1763.Date: --May, 1800
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A grammar of the Greek language: originally composed for the College-School, at Gloucester: in which it has been the editor's design to reject what, in the most improved editions of Cambden [i.e., Camden], is redundant: to supply what is deficient: to reduce to order wha is intricate and confused: and to consign to an appendix what is not requisite to be got by heart.
Camden, William, 1551-1623.Date: April, 1800
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Geography made easy: being an abridgment of the American universal geography. ... To which is added, an improved chronological table of remarkable events, from the creation to the present time. Illustrated with a map of the world, and a map of North America. Calculated particularly for the use and improvement of schools and academies in the United States of America. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Minister of the congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts-- Author of the American universal geography, and the American gazetteer. Published according to act of Congress. [Four lines of quotations]
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: --October, 1800
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. To which is added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: --1797
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Worshipper's assistant. Containing the rules of music, and a variety of easy and plain psalm tunes: adapted to the weakest capacities, and designed for extensive utility, as an introduction to more critical and curious music. By Solomon Howe. A.M. [Twenty four lines of verse] Copy right secured, according to act of Congress.
Howe, Solomon, 1750-1835.Date: --1799
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A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers: with a dissertation on white swellings of the joints. To which is prefixed, an essay on the chirurgical treatment of inflammation and its consequences. By Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, one of th surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [One line in Latin from Tacitus]
Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.Date: June, 1797
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The royal standard English dictionary. In which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, their part of speech properly distinguished, and, their various significations arranged in one line; but, likewise, by a key to this work, comprising the various sounds of the vowels and consonants, denoted by typographical characters, and illustrated by examples ... Upon a plan perfectly plain, and entirely new. To which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language. ... By William Perry, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh, author of The only sure guide to the English tongue, The man of business, The orator, &c. &c.
Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.Date: 1796
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Grace and truth: or, The glory and fulness of the Redeemer displayed, in an attempt to explain, illustrate, and enforce the most remarkable types, figures, and allegories of the Old Testament. By the Rev. William M'Ewen, late Minister of the Gospel in Dundee.
McEwen, William, 1735-1762.Date: --July, 1796
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Geography made easy: being an abridgment of the American universal geography. ... To which is added, an improved chronological table of remarkable events, from the creation to the present time. Illustrated with a map of the world, and a map of North America. Calculated particularly for the use and improvement of schools and academies in the United States of America. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Minister of the congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts-- Author of the American universal geography, and the American gazetteer. Published according to act of Congress. [Four lines of quotations]
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: --1798
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. To which is added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: --1797
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The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781.Date: 1796
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Essays on rhetoric. Abridged chiefly from Dr. Blair's lectures on that science.
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.Date: May, 1797
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Edward. Various views of human nature, taken from life and manners, chiefly in England, [Three lines of verse from Juvenal] By John Moore M.D. Author of Travels through France and Italy, Zeluco, &c. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: 1798
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The royal standard English dictionary. In which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, their part of speech properly distinguished, and, their various significations arranged in one line; but, likewise, by a key to this work, comprising the various sounds of the vowels and consonants, denoted by typographical characters, and illustrated by examples ... Upon a plan perfectly plain, and entirely new. To which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language. ... By William Perry, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh, author of The only sure guide to the English tongue, The man of business, The orator, &c.
Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.Date: January, 1800
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Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects. Calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners and enlighten the understanding. "That our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett. Two volumes complete in one.
Bennett, John, Curate of St. Mary's, Manchester.Date: --May--1798--
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A grammatical institute of the English language; comprising an easy, concise and systematic method of education. Designed for the use of English schools in America. In three parts. Part second. Containing a plain and comprehensive grammar, grounded on the true principles and idioms of the language. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: --July, 1797
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Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery. By Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of midwifery in the university, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. [One line in Latin]
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.Date: October, 1797
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The Italian, or, The confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, author of The mysteries of Udolpho, Romance of the forest, Cicilian [sic] romance, &c. In two volumes. ...
Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823.Date: 1797
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The New pleasing instructor: or, Young lady's guide to virtue and happiness. Consisting of essays, relations, descriptions, epistles, dialogues, and poetry. Carefully extracted from the best modern authors. Designed principally for the use of female schools; but calculated for general instruction and amusement. By a lady.
Date: April, 1799
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An abridgment of the American gazetteer. Exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a compendious account of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the America continent, and its appendant islands; particularly the West-Indies. ... To which is annexed an accurate table of all the post-offices in the United States. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Masssachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with a map of North America. Abridged by the author. Published according to act of Congress.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: --June, 1798
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Elements of geography: containing a concise and comprehensive view of that useful science, as divided into, 1. astronomical 2. physical, or natural 3. political geography. On a new plan. Adapted to the capacities of children and youth; and designed, from its cheapness, for a reading and classical book in common schools, and as a useful winter evening's entertainment for young people in private families. Illustrated with a neat map of the United States, and a beautiful chart of the whole world. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Minister of the congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts--author of the American universal geography, and of the American gazetteer. [Three lines from Backus]
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: Feb. 1798
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The boarding school; or, Lessons of a preceptress to her pupils: consisting of information, instruction, and advice, calculated to improve the manners, and form the character of young ladies. To which is added, a collection of letters, written by the pupils, to their instructor, their friends, and each other. By a lady of Massachusetts; author of The coquette.; Published according to act of Congress.
Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840.Date: June, 1798
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The Columbian dictionary of the English language: in which many new words, peculiar to the United States, and many words of general use, not found in any other English dictionary, are inserted. ... To which is prefixed, a prosodial grammar, containing, a short dissertation on vowels and consonants. To the whole is added Heathen mythology: or A classical pronouncing dictionary. By Caleb Alexander, A.M. Author of "Virgil's works translated into literal English prose," &c. &c. and teacher of the English language. Published according to act of Congress.
Alexander, Caleb, 1755-1828.Date: --Aug. 1800
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Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.Date: October, 1797
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Commentaries on the laws of England. In four books. By Sir William Blackstone, Knt. One of the late justices of His Britannic Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. In four volumes. Vol. I.--Book I [-Vol. IV. Book IV.].
Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.Date: 1799