Law Tracts on English Common Law and Evidence
A period listing of law texts by Francis Bacon and others includes The Law of Evidence with topics on witness types and general evidentiary rules, an abridgment of Magna Carta era statutes up to King George II, and sections on actions of torts, crimes, and pleas. The material catalogs editions, publishers, and the scope of case law and maxims.
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England
Francis Bacon
Baron of
Verulam
St. Alban
R. Gosling
Fleekstreet
Henry
George II
Impeachment and Legal References in Chancery Reading
A fragment listing topics in law and equity including impeachment of wafle, tenures, revocation of uses, and jurisdiction of the marches. It mentions ordinances in chancery for better administration of justice, daily observance, and saving the prerogative of the court. It also notes a reading on the statute of uses.
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Wafle
Ufes
Pascal's Thoughts on Religion and Miscellanies
A historical catalog of translated Pascal reflections including faith and reason, miracles, and moral thoughts. It notes the edition printed for J and J Pemberton in Fleet Street, with Basil Kennet’s twenty sermons for merchants abroad, priced accordingly.
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Moses
Jesus Christ
Mahomet
God
Pascal
Mouf
Basil Kenner
D. D
Corpus
Christi College
Oxford
J. Pemberton
Fleet-street
Basil Kennet
English and Portuguese Grammar and Language Aids
A catalog of language learning works including Gra Lusitano Anglica, English and Portuguese grammar with declensions conjugations syntax rules etymology and dialogues, plus compendious introductions to English for Portuguese learners and various Latin and rhetoric primers. The compilation notes Royal tutoring connections and printing details in London.
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East Indies
W. Meadows
the Angel
Cornhill
Tanaquil
London
Roger Atcham
Richard Carew
Milton
Lock
Ciceronis
Plinii
Erasmi Roterodami
Angeli Politani
Cumberland
J. T.ay
Royal
Prince William Duke of Cumberland
Ontology and Free Will Essays by Watts and Others
A late 18th century advertisement for philosophical works by Isaac Watts and associates. It lists publications on ontology, space, substance, mind and body, perpetual consciousness, and the soul’s operations, plus a treatise on the freedom of will and the afterlife. Includes pricing and supplier details.
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Mr. Locke
I. Watts
Richard Hett
Pultry
This Day is Published The Sixth Epinion Defending Establishment
Publication notice for the third volume of a defense of primitive Christianity and the ecclesiastical establishment against fanatical clergy. Printed for J. Peele and sold by J. Osborn at the Golden Ball in Paternoffer-Row. Third volume offered separately for purchasers of the first two volumes.
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J. Peele
J. Osborns
Golden Ball
Paternoffer-Row
Compca
Books printed for H Lintot at the Cross Keys
A catalog listing works with prices including Joannis Secundi Nicolai fiagensis in Latin and English verse with Life and a portrait, a critical discourse on Homer’s Iliad translated by Theobald, a Greek accents treatise with a character of Greek authors, and a review of the ontological argument tied to Clarke and Lock, with prices from 6d to 15s 6d.
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H.lintot
St. Dunstan’s
Fleet-street
Bern
Picarr
Monsieur de la Morte
French Academy
Theobald
Pricers
Mesfieurs Port Royal
Trinity College
Springfield
Essex
Price
Robinson Crusoe
York
Mariner
America
Crookoyne
Pyyaress
Woodward
Hetlween
Fleettreet
Don Quixote de
Tims
Ind
Parma
Ottava
The Greek Grammar and Readers for Holistic Study
This edition advertises The Greek Grammar or A short plain complete and comprehensive method of teaching the Greek tongue. It promises clearer rules for declensions conjugations accents diacritics and syntax. Also offered are a Latin grammar and a compendium History of England with Latin and English notes and stitched blue paper bindings.
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Willerus
Antefignanus
Clonard
Labbe
Verney
Cambridge
Norwich
A. Feazer
Hole
Nalfo
England
Julius Cesar
Cornelius Tacitus
Suetonius
Eutropius
Dion
Cassius
Bette
Matthew Paris
Cagmbden
Rapin
Salmon
Burner
Clarendon
Baker
Speed
Echard
Kennet
Works of Alexander Pope Volume Third in Fleet Street
Fragmentary notice advertises a edition of Alexander Pope's Works Volume Third by Lintot at the Cross Keys near St. Ian's Church Fleet Street. The readable bits hint at fables translations and moral tales printed during Pope’s era with likely publication details.
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Alexander Pope
Elys
Hi. Lintot
St.Ian’s
Fleet-street
Arithmetic system of all its parts in one work
An 18th century advertisement touts a comprehensive arithmetic treatise by Eowaap HaTron. It covers algebra, negatives, converging series, logarithms, and interest calculations, with tables and methods for money value over time. Published by G. Strahan in Cornhill, London.
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Eowaap HaTron
G. Strahan
Hp Golkes
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
J. Brotherton
Bible In
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