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The Reverend Mr. James Davenport's confession & retractations.

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An historical narrative and topographical description of Louisiana, and West-Florida, comprehending the river Mississippi with its principal branches and settlements, and the rivers Pearl, Pascagoula, Mobille, Perdido, Escambia, Chacta-Hatcha, &c. : The climate, soil, and produce whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; : with directions for sailing into all the bays, lakes, harbours and rivers on the north side of the Gulf of Mexico, and for navigating between the islands situated along that coast, and ascending the Mississippi River. / By Thomas Hutchins, geographer to the United States.

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An exhortation to the diligent studye of scripture, made by Erasmus Roterodamus. And tra[n]slated in to inglissh. An exposition in to the seventh chaptre of the first pistle to the Corinthians

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Golgotha. A lively description of death. With such thoughts, as are to be entertained by men, that they may not perish, in that very day, when the thoughts of men do perish. Occasioned by some fresh instances of early mortality. With a more particular memorial of one of them; namely, Mr. Recompence Wadsworth, a late school-master in Boston. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]

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The best way of living; which is to die daily: very briefly described and commended in a plain discourse, made at a time, when the author had newly seen repeated strokes of death, on his own family. And the publisher had his family also struck with a sudden death upon a vital part of it. : 22. d. IX. m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from 2 Corinthians]

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Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the Negroes, written in the year 1776. By Thomas Day, Esq.; [Four lines in French]

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Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will bring both parents and children to. : A sermon occasion'd by the death of a religious matron, Mrs. Mary Rock. Who having entred the eighty first year of her age, withdrew from us. 30d. 7m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Matthew]

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God ruling the nations for the most glorious end. A sermon, in presence of His Excellency, and both houses of Assembly. Hartford, May 13th, 1784. / By Joseph Huntington, D.D. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]

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An account of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the city of New York, during part of the summer and fall of 1795. By Richard Bayley.

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Prosopopeia containing the teares of the holy, blessed, and sanctified Marie, the Mother of God.

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Of the day of grace, or, A discourse concerning the possibility and fear of its being past before death shewing the groundless doubts, and mistaken apprehensions of some as to their being finally forsaken and left of God, with the dangerous symptomsand approaches of others to such a sad state, in four sermons from Psalm LXXX1. 11, 12 / by John Shower.

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The Iesuits creed or, The forme of the profession of faith, to which all Popish priests and ecclesiastiques, of what order soever, are fast tyed by oath: by the ordinance of Pope Pius the fourth, in the fifth yeare of his popedome. Anno Domini, 1564.

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Malebranch's search after truth, or, A treatise of the nature of the humane mind and of its management for avoiding error in the sciences : vol I : done out of French from the last edition.

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The lambs warre against the man of sinne the end of it, the manner of it, and what he wars against : his weapons, his colours, and his kingdom, and how all may know whether they be in it or no ...

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The Quakers last shift found out, or, An answer to Will. Penn's complaint against the meeting at Barbican, upon the 28th. of August, 1674 and his new way of stating an old challenge.

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Modern times: or the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. Supposed to be written by himself. In imitation of Gil Blas. ... [pt.2]

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Modern times: or the adventures of Gabriel Outcast. Supposed to be written by himself. In imitation of Gil Blas. ... [pt.1]

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Epistle to a friend: on the death of John Thornton, Esq. By the author of "An epistle to an eminent painter.".

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Sermons. By Charles Churchill

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A journal of the adventures of Matthew Bunn, a native of Brookfield, Massachusetts, who enlisted with Ensign John Tillinghast, of Providence, in the year 1791, on an expedition into the western country,-- was taken by the savages, and made his escape into Detroit the 30th of April, 1792. : Containing a very circumstantial account of the cruel treatment he suffered while in captivity, and many of the customs of the savages, which have never before appeared in print. : Published by the particular request of a number of persons who have seen the manuscript.

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The Reasons which compelled the states of Bohemia to reject the Archduke Ferdinand &c. and inforced them to elect a new king together with the proposition which was made vppon the first motion of the choyce of th'Elector Palatine to bee King of Bohemia by the states of that kingdome in their publique assembly on the sixteenth of August, being the birth day of the same Elector Palatine / translated out of the French copies.

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A rationale upon the Book of common prayer of the Church of England by Anth. Sparrow ... ; with the form of consecration of a church or chappel, and of the place of Christian burial ; by Lancelot Andrews ...

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The life and death of the famous Thomas Stukely an English gentleman in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who was kill'd in the battle of the Three Kings of Barbary.

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The asse beaten for bawling; or, A replie from the city to the crie of the country.

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The carrier of the American Mercury wishes his customers a happy New-Year, and presents the following.

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