OBSERVATIONS on the second vision of St. John. With four dissertations concerning: I. The authority of the Book of Revelations. II. The time when it was written. III. The manner of prophetical inspiration. IV. The Lamb of God. To which are added, by way of appendix, Remarks on a species of prophecy distinct from, and superior to, vision and dream, as advanced in a late essay on 2 Pet. I. 16, &c. [By Thomas MOORE.] London 1752. Octavo. Pp. viii. 135. [Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.] OBSERVATIONS on the slave trade. [By Dr Robert INNES, of Gifford.] Edinburgh: 1795. Octavo. OBSERVATIONS on the small livings of the Church of Scotland: with some suggestions for their improvement. [By Robert MILNE, M.A., minister of Towie.] Edinburgh: MDCCCLXV. Octavo. Pp. 36.* [A. Jervise.] Reprinted from the Edinburgh Evening Courant. OBSERVATIONS on the subject of a railway communication between Yar mouth and Norwich: addressed to William Johnson, Esq., Mayor of Yarmouth. [By ROUTH, superintendent of the railway.] Yarmouth MDCCCXLII. Octavo. Pp. 18.* The above pamphlet was suppressed. OBSERVATIONS on the taxation of property. [By Joshua JENOUR.] London: 1798. Octavo. [Gent. Mag., Mar. 1853, p. 325. Mon. Rev., xxvii. 464.] OBSERVATIONS on the test laws, in reply to "A review of the case of Protestant dissenters." [By William BELSHAM.] London: MDCCXCI. Octavo. Pp. 58.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS on the three first volumes of the History of English poetry, in a familiar letter to [Warton] the author. [By Joseph RITSON.] London: 1782. Quarto. [Lowndes, Bib liog. Man. Mon. Rev., lxviii. 186.] OBSERVATIONS on the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and France. [By Francis BASSET, Lord De Dunstanville.] London: 1787. Octavo, [Boase and Courtney, Bib. Corn., i. 112.] OBSERVATIONS on the writings of the Craftsman. [By John, Lord HERVEY.] London: 1730. Octavo.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS on (what is called) the Catholic bill. With a copy of the bill. By a lawyer. [John REEVES.] London: 1807. Octavo. [Gent. Mag., Nov. 1829, p. 468, Mon. Rev., liii, 101.] OBSERVATIONS respecting the further extension of trial by jury to Scotland in civil causes. [By William ADAM, Lord Chief Commissioner.] Edinburgh: 1819. Octavo. Pp. 51. b. t. xi.* "Written by the Lord Chief Commissioner & given to me by him."-MS. note by Sir Henry Jardine, OBSERVATIONS suggested by the perusal of Mr Lofft's History of the Corporation and Test Acts. By a clergyman of the Establishment. [George HAGGITT, M.A., rector of Beechamwell, Norfolk.] Bury St. Edmund's: 1790, Octavo. Pp. I. b. t. 30.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS suggested by the present question respecting privilege of parliament, in a letter addressed to the freeholders of Cornwall. With an appendix, containing the resolutions of the late meeting at Westminster, their petition and remonstrance to the House of Commons, and their letter to Sir F. Burdett. By the author of A letter to a noble Lord. [Edward BUDD.] Second edition. St. Austell, N, D. [1810.] Octavo. Pp. 24. [Boase and Courtney, Bib. Corn., i. 49.] OBSERVATIONS touching the antiquity and dignity of the degree of sergeant-at-law. With reasons against laying open the Court of Common Pleas, as was proposed at the time of printing these observations. [By Edward WYNNE.] London: 1765. Octavo. Pp. 167. Table of contents, 3 leaves; index, 5 leaves; errata, I leaf, [W., Martin's Cat.] OBSERVATIONS touching the principles of natural motions; and especially touching rarefaction & condensation together with a reply to certain remarks touching the gravitation of fluids. By the author of Difficiles Nuga. [Sir Matthew HALE.] London, 1677. Octavo. Pp. II. b. t. 285.* [Bodl.] Octavo. Pp. OBSERVATIONS upon a letter by the Rev. John Simons, rector of St Paul's Cray, addressed to a highly respected friend, upon certain errors of the Antinomian kind, which have lately sprung up in the West of England. By a bystander. - BAYFORD.] London: M.DCCC. XVIII. vi. 49.* OBSERVATIONS upon a pamphlet, intitled, An analysis of the moral and religious sentiments contained in the writings of Sopho [Lord Kames], and David Hume, Esq; &c. [By Hugh BLAIR, D.D.] Edinburgh: M.DCC.LV. Octavo. Pp. 28.* [Woodhouselee's Life of Kames, i. 142.] OBSERVATIONS upon a sermon [by Richard Bentley] intituled, A confutation of atheism from the faculties of the soul, alias, matter and motion cannot think: preached April 4. 1692. By way of refutation. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 19.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon a short treatise, written by Mr Timothy Manlove: entituled, The immortality of the soul asserted; and printed in octavo at London. 1697. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 128.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon a treatise intitled, A discourse concerning the happiness of good men in the next world. Part I. Concerning the proofs of the immortality of the soul, and immortal life. By Dr. Sherlock. In octavo printed London. 1704. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 115.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon a treatise intitled Psychologia: or, an account of the nature of the rational soul. In two parts. The first intending to establish the doctrine of the soul's immortality. The second intending to solve all those arguments, which are brought against that opinion by the author of Second thoughts. Both written by John Broughton, M.A. Printed London 1703. 8°. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 132.* [Bodl.] "Ended the 22d of October, 1703." OBSERVATIONS upon a treatise [by Martin Clifford] intituled, Of humane reason. [By Edward STEPHENS.] London: 1675. Duodecimo. Pp. 73. b. t.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon [Thomas Vaughan's] Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita. By Alazonomastix Philalethes. [Henry MORE.] Printed at Parrhesia, but are to be sold, by O. Pullen at the Rose in Pauls Churchyard, 1650. Octavo. Pp. 94.* OBSERVATIONS upon Aristotles Politiques, touching forms of government. Together with directions for obedience to governours in dangerous and doubtfull times. [By Sir Robert FILMER.] London: 1652. Quarto. [W.] At end of the book, stated to be by the author of "Observations concerning the originall of government.' OBSERVATIONS upon certain Roman roads and towns in the south of Britain. [By Henry Lawes LONG.] Privately printed. Farnham: 1836. Octavo. [W] OBSERVATIONS upon Dr. Nicholl's book, intituled, A conference with a theist being a proof of the immortality of the soul. And in answer to the objections made against that doctrine, in a book, intituled, Second thoughts concerning human soul, &c. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 124.* [Bodl.] "Finit. 22 Jun. 1703." OBSERVATIONS upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, containing several singular anecdotes relating to the character and conduct of that great genius, and the most deservedly celebrated Stella. In a series of letters to his Lordship. To which are added, two original pieces of the same author, (excellent in their kind) never before published. [By Patrick DELANEY.] London: 1754. Octavo. [Gent. Mag., xlvii. 315. Mon. Rev., xi. 56.] Written under the signature of J. R. OBSERVATIONS upon Mr. Fauquier's Essay on ways and means for raising money to support the present war without increasing the public debts. To which is added, an account of several national advantages derived from the nobility and gentry of the present age living in London a greater part of the year than their ancestors used to do. By J. M. [Joseph MASSIE.] London: M DCC LVI. Octavo. Pp. 67.* OBSERVATIONS upon Mr. N. P. N. D. Octavo. Pp. 15.* [N. and OBSERVATIONS upon Mr. Wadsworth's book of the soul's immortality, and his confutation of the opinion of the souls inactivity to the time of general resurrection. 8vo. Printed London 1670. [By Henry LAYTON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 199.* [Bodl.] At the end of the above, with continuous pagination (200-215), there is a treatise, evidently by the same author, entitled, Observations upon Dr Charlton's treatise; entituled, The immortality of the humane soul, demonstrated by the light of nature. In two dialogues. 4°. London, printed 1657. OBSERVATIONS upon some of his Majesties [Charles I.] late answers and expresses. [By Henry PARKER, of Lincoln's Inn.] [London, 1642.] Quarto.* No separate title-page. There is another edition "Corrected from some grosse errors in the presse," pp. 47. OBSERVATIONS upon some particular persons and passages in a book [by William Sanderson] lately made publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a lover of the truth. [Carew RALEIGH, Son of Sir Walter.] London, 1656. Quarto. Pp. 21.* [Wood, OBSERVATIONS upon the conduct and behaviour of a certain sect, usually distinguished by the name of Methodists. [By Edmund GIBSON, D.D.] N. P. N. D. Quarto. Pp. 24.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the conduct of Sr W-m H-e at the White Plains ; as related in the Gazette of December 30th, 1776. [By Israel MAUDUIT.] 1779. Octavo. Pp. 44. [Rich, Bib. Amer., i. 275.] OBSERVATIONS upon the DublinBills of mortality, MDCLXXXI. and the state of that city. By the observator on the London bills of mortality. [Sir William PETTY.] : London 1683. Octavo. Pp. 8. b. t. 4.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the English language. In a letter to a friend. [By George HARRIS, D.C.L.] London N. D. Octavo. Pp. 25.* [Nichols, Lit. Anec., ix. 28. Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the first report of the commissioners of inquiry into the state of education in Ireland. [By Rev. Robert DALY.] Dublin 1826. Octavo. Pp. 52.* [U.P. OBSERVATIONS upon the importance of the North American colonies to Great Britain. By an old inhabitant of British America. [Brenton HALLIBURTON.] Halifax, printed at Royal Gazette Office. [1825.] [W.] OBSERVATIONS upon the life of Reginaldus Polus, cardinal of the royal bloud of England. Sent in a pacquet out of Wales, by G. L. [Ludovico Beccatelli] gentleman and servant to the late Majesty of Henrietta Maria of Bourbon. [By William JOYNER, alias LYDE.] London. 1686. Octavo. [Mendham Collection Cat., p. 170.] OBSERVATIONS upon the liturgy. With a proposal for its reform, upon the principles of Christianity, as professed and taught by the Church of England; and an attempt to reconcile the doctrines of the angels' apostacy and perpetual punishment, man's fall and redemption, and the incarnation of the Son of God, to our conceptions of the divine nature and attributes. By a layman of the Church of England, late an under Secretary of State. To which is added, the journals of the American convention, appointed to frame an ecclesiastical constitution, and prepare a liturgy for the Episcopal Churches in the United States. [By William KNOX.] London: M.DCC.LXXXIX. Octavo. Pp. 212. b. t.* [Lowndes, Brit. Lib., p. 413.] OBSERVATIONS upon the means by which the communication betwixt the counties of Fife and Mid-Lothian might be improved, and a plan suggested for the establishment of a grand national ferry, upon the Frith of Forth, in the vicinity of Edinburgh. By a trustee of the Fife and Mid-Lothian ferries. [Roger AYTOUN, of Inchdairnie.] Edinburgh: MDCCCXXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 16.* OBSERVATIONS upon the ordinance of the Lords and Commons at Westminster. After advice had with their Assembly of divines, for the ordination of ministers pro tempore, according to their directory for ordination, and rules for examination therein expressed. Die Mercurij 2 Octob. 1644. [By Edward BOUGHEN.] Oxford, 1645. Quarto. Pp. 34. b. t.* [Wood, Athen. Oxon., iii. 389.] Bishop Barlow's copy in the Bodleian has the following note on the back of the title -"Writt by one Bowen, who flyinge from the rebells, an. 1643, had writt a larger volume of Bishops, which, (Dr. Jer. Taylor's booke of the same subject preuenting him) he printed not. This present treatise is an extract of that great work, or att least those parts of it which concern'd his subject." OBSERVATIONS upon the practical working of the Jury court in Scotland; shewing its defects, and the expediency of certain alterations, particularly in regard to the trial of intricate cases. [By James MILLER, S.S.C.] Edinburgh: MDCCCXLIII. Octavo. Pp. iv. b. t. 68. [Adv. Lib.] OBSERVATIONS upon the Riot Act, with an attempt towards the amendment of it. By a dilettante in law and politics. [Allan RAMSAY, junr.] London: M. DCC.LXXXI. 31.* Octavo. Pp. OBSERVATIONS upon the state of the Dr. [William] Wotton. But two replies were published in the same year, whose titles indicate that, in the judgment of the writers, the author was the Earl of Nottingham. The title of the one is "Not--am politicks examin'd. Being an answer to a pamphlet lately publish'd, intituled, Observations upon the state of the nation." The half-title of the other is "Remarks upon my Lord N--ham's State of the nation"; and the full title, "Remarks upon a pamphlet intitul'd, Observations upon the state of the nation, in January, 171.” OBSERVATIONS upon the statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-first of James the First, Ch. xxvii. With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes. [By Hon. Daines BARRINGTON.] The second edition, with corrections and additions. London : MDCCLXVI. Quarto. Pp. xii. 444.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the treaty between the crowns of Great-Britain, France, and Spain, concluded at Seville on the ninth of November, 1729, N.S. [By Sir Robert WALPOLE.] London 1729. Octavo. Pp. 29.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the warre of Hungary. [By Edward LITTLETON, of All Souls'.] London, 1689. Quarto. Pp. 5. b. t. 47.* [Bodl.] "Rec'd from the author Mr. Edw. Littleton. 4 Dec. 1694."-MS. note in the hand-writing of Wood. OBSERVATOR (the) for March 10, 1681. [By Sir Roger L'ESTRANGE.] [Athen. Cat. (Sup.), p. 230.] OBSERVER (the). [By Richard CUMBERLAND.] Dublin: M, DCC, LXXXV. Octavo. Pp. 304. b. t.* The above consists of xl. numbers. OBSERVER (the) observed, or, remarks on a certain curious tract entitled, 'Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, by Thomas Warton, A.M. &c.' [Attributed to William HUGGINS.] London: 1756. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., s.v. T. Warton, p. 2848.] OCCASION (the) of the dearness of provisions, and the distress of the poor : with proposals for remedying the calamity, offered to the consideration of the public wherein the policy of the bounty given upon the exportation of corn, the inclosing of commons, and enlarging of farms, are impartially considered. With some remarks on a late pamphlet, entituled, "A letter to a member of parliament, on the present distresses of the poor." By a manufacturer. [John HUSTLER.J London: 1767. Octavo. 3 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 1024.] OCCASIONAL amusements. [By E. FORSTER.] London: 1809. Duodecimo. [W., Martin's Cat.] OCCASIONAL attempts at sentimental poetry, by a man in business: with some miscellaneous compositions of his friends. [By John HOPE.] London, MDCCLXIX. Octavo.* "Occasional attempts at sentimental poetry by a man in business" were written by John Hope Esq. grandson of Charles first Earl of Hopetoun, and father of the Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session. Mr Hope was born 7th April 1739. He married 2 June 1762, Mary only daughter of Eliab Breton of Norton, Northampton and of Forty Hall, Enfield, Middlesex. She died 25 June 1767, aged 25, and he committed suicide at Newcastle 21 May 1785. Mr Hope was a merchant in London. He also wrote "Thoughts in prose and verse started in his walks by John Hope." Stockton, 1780. The above is from a MS. note in Mr Maidment's copy. OCCASIONAL attempts in verse. By W. C. [William COCKIN.] Kendal: 1776. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.] OCCASIONAL conformity a most unjustifiable practice. In answer to a late pamphlet [by James Owen], entituled, Moderation a virtue. With a short vindication of the Church of England, from that author's groundless reasons for separation. And a post script, in answer to the eleventh section of Dr. Davenant's essays of peace at home and war abroad. [By Samuel GRASCOME.] London: 1704. Quarto. Pp. 56. b. t.* [Bodl.] The Postscript has a separate pagination. OCCASIONAL (the) critic; or the decrees of the Scotch tribunal in the Critical Review rejudged. In which the learning, philosophy, science, taste, knowledge of mankind, history, physic, belles lettres, and polite arts, the candor, integrity, impartiality, abilities, pretensions, performances, designs, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. of the gentlemen authors of that work, are placed in a true light. [By John SHEBBEARE, M.D.] London: 1757. Octavo. [W.] OCCASIONAL essays on various subjects, chiefly political and historical. Extracted partly from the publick newspapers during the present reign, and partly from tracts published in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II., and from Bishop Burnet's History of his own times. [By F. MASERES, Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer.] London 1809. Octavo. Pp. xiv. 607. [W., Brit. Mus.] By OCCASIONAL (an) letter on the subject of English Convocations. the author of Ecclesiastical synods and Parliamentary Convocations in the Church of England. [White KENNETT, Bishop of Peterborough]. London: 1701. Octavo. Pp. 139. b. t.* [Life of Kennett, p. 20.] OCCASIONAL observations on a double-titled paper, about the clear produce of the civil list revenue, from mid-summer 1727 to mid-summer last. [By George Bubb DODINGTON, Lord Melcombe.] London: 1761. Octavo. [Park's Walpole, iv. 251. Mon. Rev., xxiv. 273.] OCCASIONAL (the) paper: number I. Containing an account of the author's design. Together with some reflexions on a book entituled, A letter to the deists. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D., Bishop of Winchester.] London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 34. b. t.* : number II. Concerning the late unfortunate death of J. Hen, Esq; with a short character of him; and a reflexion upon the heinousness of the sin of self-murther. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 8.* : number III. Being reflexions upon Mr Toland's book, called Christianity not mysterious: with some considerations about the use of reason in matters of religion. In a letter to a friend. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.] London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 38. b. t.* : number IV. Containing reflexions on a book, entituled, The lady's |