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  [Daily meditations: or Quotidian preparations for and considerations of death and eternity begun July 19. 1666. By Philip Pain: who lately suffering shipwrack, was drowned.]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Pain, Philip, d. 1668? ; Johnson, Marmaduke, d. 1674. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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  The only known copy, held by the New York Public Library, lacks the title page. Tentatively identified as the 1682 "second edition" recorded as Evans 327. Title supplied from the 1670 edition (Evans 153). Samuel Green is ...
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  A battle! A battle! A battle a squirt, where no man is kill'd, and no man is hurt! To the tune of Three blue beans, in a blue bladder; rattle bladder rattle. : To which is added, The Quaker's address, and the School-boy's answer to an insolent fellow who accus'd him of stealing his cherries. : [Six lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1764
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Ascribed to the press of Anthony Armbruster by Evans. With a half-title. "King Wampum. Or Harm Watch, harm catch. And the Lord departed from Is---l, and behold He went a whoreing after his own invention until his abominable ...
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  A brief and plain essay on God's wonder-working providence for New-England, in the reduction of Louisburg, and fortresses thereto belonging on Cape-Breton. : With a short hint in the beginning, on the French taking & plundering the people of Canso, which led the several governments to unite and pursue that expedition. : With the names of the leading officers in the army and the several regiments to which they belonged. / By Samuel Niles. ; [Six lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1747
  

  Author(s):

  Niles, Samuel, 1674-1762.
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  In verse. Half-title: Mr. Niles's essay on God's wonder-working providence for New-England, in the reduction of Louisbourg, &c.
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  A Choice collection of hymns and spiritual songs; intended for the edification of sincere Christians, of all denominations. / By Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel. ; [Text]
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Occom, Samson, 1723-1792, comp.
  Description:
  Compiled by Samson Occom from the works of others.
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  A collection of fugitive essays, in prose and verse. Written by Charles Prentiss. ; [One line from Johnson] ; Published according to act of Congress.
  Date of publication:
  1797
  

  Author(s):

  Prentiss, Charles, 1774-1820.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. In some copies, an errata slip is mounted on p. 4. "Haven, or The merited gallows. In three acts."--p. [173]-204.
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  A collection of plays and poems, by the late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg county, in the state of Virginia. ; Now first published together.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Munford, Robert, d. 1784. and Munford, William, 1775-1825, ed.
  Description:
  Preface signed by the author's son, William Munford. Edwin Wolf notes completely reset variants of gatherings C and N. Cf. Wolf, "Historical grist for the bibliographical mill." Studies in bibliography 25 (1972): 30. Error ...
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  A comment on some passages in the Book of Job.
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Devens, Richard, 1749-1835.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to Richard Devens by Evans. Cf. Evans 28273, 32035. Published, in revised and enlarged form, in 1795, with title: A paraphrase of some parts of the book of Job.
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  A Compendious view and brief defence of the peculiar and leading doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

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  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832. On the Honorable Emanuel Swedenborg's Universal theology.
  Description:
  With a hymn on p. iv. "On the Honorable Emanuel Swedenborg's Universal theology. By Philip Freneau."--p. xxxv-xxxvi.
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  A cure fof [sic] canting; an original Yankee poem. In two letters. : Argument. A candidate for the ministry of the Gospel is highly censured by a physician, for some little familiarities taken with a young maiden, whom he accidentally met with in his rambles into the field, in the season for strawberries--the reverend divine makes a spirited reply, and seems to justify himself.
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Dow, Hendricus, 1761-1814.
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  "Letter I. C----h to D----w" ends: I beg your pardon, ask your favour, Your servant, sir, S----l C----h forever. "Letter II. D----w to C----h" ends: Too long delay'd, I scribble now, Your servant, sir, H----s D----w. Other ...
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  A dialogue, between a southern delegate and his spouse, on his return from the grand Continental Congtress. A fragment, inscribed to the married ladies of America, / by their most sincere, and affectionate friend, and servant, Mary V.V.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  V., Mary V. and Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
  Description:
  "'This tract, which is in verse, is supposed to have been written by Jefferson.' Manuscript note in J.B. Chandler's copy."--Sabin. A Tory satire on the Continental Congress, the Dialogue is not likely to have been written ...
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