Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises

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T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 606 pages
 

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Page 111 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.
Page 106 - Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi (formerly Mrs. Thrale, the friend of Dr. Johnson), written when she was eighty, to the handsome actor, William Augustus Conway, aged Twenty-seven. 8vo, sewed. 2s " written at three, four, and five o'clock (in the morning) by an octogenary pen ; a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and as HLP feels it to be, all your own.
Page 77 - Some account of the Alien Priories, and of such Lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales,
Page 97 - A Full and Impartial Account of all the late proceedings in the University of Cambridge against Dr Bentley.
Page 30 - HINTS, &c. Submitted to the serious attention of the clergy, nobility and gentry, newly associated : by a layman, a friend to the true principles of the constitution, in Church and State and to religious and civil liberty.
Page 72 - An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, from her first coming to Court to the year 1710. In a letter from Herself to my Lord...
Page 96 - National Rights and State Rights. A Review of the Case of Alexander McLeod, recently determined in .the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York. By a Member of the Massachusetts Bar. Reprinted from the Law Reporter. Boston : Bradbury & Soden. 8vo. pp. 46. Review of the Opinion of Judge Cowan, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in the Case of Alexander...
Page 71 - ... death of Mrs. Abigail Willard ... By . . . B. 1721. — (2) Victorina: a sermon preached on the decease and at the desire of Mrs. Katherin Mather. By ... Whereunto there is added a further account of that young gentlewoman. By anotherhand [Thomas Walter].
Page 95 - REASONS in defence of the standing laws about the right of presentation in patronages : to be offered against an Act (in case it be) presented for alteration thereof : by a member of parliament ; in a letter to his friend in the country.
Page 109 - Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Eminent English Civilians, with an historical introduction relative to the College of Advocates...

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