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Page 440 - Orations Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770; When a Number of Citizens were Killed by a Party of British Troops, Quartered Among them, in a Time of Peace.
Page 501 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
Page 297 - Imitations of Original Drawings, by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII., with Biographical Tracts [by Edmund Lodge], published by John Chamberlaine Printed by W.
Page 131 - Confession of Faith, owned and consented unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches...
Page 257 - An Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Losses and Services of all such persons who have suffered in their Rights, Properties and Professions during the late unhappy Dissensions in America, in Consequence of their Loyalty to his Majesty, and Attachment to the British Government.
Page 465 - A topographical map of the north part of New York Island, exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen, with the rebel lines to the southward, which were forced by the troops under the command of the Rt.
Page 557 - Servants, with great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakespeare, Gent.
Page 721 - Interesting considerations require, that we should keep ourselves free to act in this case according to circumstances, and consequently, that you should not, by any clause of treaty, bind us to guarantee any of the Spanish colonies against their own independence, nor indeed against any other nation.
Page 642 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page 258 - Those who have long too successfully laboured to inflame my people in America, by gross misrepresentations, and to infuse into their minds a system of opinions repugnant to the true constitution of the colonies, and to their subordinate relation to Great Britain, now openly avow their revolt, hostility, and rebellion.