Full Title: An Appendix to a Letter to Dr. Shebbeare. To Which are Added, Some Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, Taxation no Tyranny: In which the Sophistry of That Author’s Reasoning is Detected. By a Doctor of Laws. London: Printed for J. Donaldson, Corner of Arundel Street, In the Strand. MDCCLXXV.
Excerpt.
Sir,
I have read your ingenious [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 28, 2007
Item of the Day: A Letter to the Author of a Pamphlet, Called Taxation no Tyranny (1775)
February 27, 2007
Item of the Day: A View of Religions (1791)
Full Title: A View of Religions, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing an Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Religious Denominations, Which Have Appeared in the World, From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Day. Part II. Containing a Brief Account of The Different Schemes of Religion Now Embraced Among Mankind. The Whole [...]
February 26, 2007
Item of the Day: The Natural and Civil History of Vermont (1809)
Full Title: The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. By Samuel Williams, LL.D. Member of the Meteorological Society in Germany, of the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Massachusetts. In Two Volumes. Volume I. The Second Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged. Burlington, VT. Printed by Samuel Mills. Sold [...]
February 23, 2007
Item of the Day: Johnson’s Taxation no Tyranny (1775)
Full Title:
Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolution and Address of the American Congress, [by Samuel Johnson]. Third edition. Printed in London for T. Cadell, 1775.
Excerpt:
In all the parts of human knowledge, whether terminating in science merely speculative, or operating upon life private or civil, are admitted some fundamental principles, or common axioms, which [...]
February 22, 2007
Item of the Day: Anticipation (1778)
Full Title: Anticipation: Containing the Substance of His M—–Y’s Most Gracious Speech to both H—-S of P–L—–T, on the Opening of the approaching Session, together with a full and authentic account of the Debate which will take Place in the H—E of C—–S, on the Motion for Address, and the Amendment. With Notes. London: Printed [...]
February 21, 2007
Item of the Day: Milton’s Areopagitica (1753)
Full Title: The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now more correctly printed from the ORIGINALS, than in any former Edition, and many Passages restored, which have been hitherto omitted. To which is prefixed, An Account of his Life and Writings. Vol. I. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, MDCCLIII.
AREOPAGITICA:
A SPEECH [...]
February 20, 2007
Item of the Day: History of California (1759)
Full Title: A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing An accurate Description of that Country, Its Soil, Mountains, Harbours, Lakes, Rivers, and Seas; its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, and famous Fishery for Pearls. The Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religion, Government, and Manner of Living, before their Conversion to the Christian Religion by the missionary [...]
February 19, 2007
Item of the Day: Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1804)
Full Title: Memoirs of M. Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel Ackerman, No. 159, Race-Street, 1804.
MEMOIRS
OF
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN,
CHAPTER I.
1759-1775
IT has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent [...]
February 16, 2007
Item of the Day: The Trial of John Peter Zenger — Andrew Hamilton’s Summation (1765)
Full Title: THE TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER, Of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and published a Libel against the Government; and acquitted with A NARRATIVE OF HIS CASE To which is now added, being never printed before, THE TRIAL of Mr. WILLIAM OWEN, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Who was also Charged with [...]
February 15, 2007
Item of the Day: The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1765)
Full Title: THE TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER, Of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and published a Libel against the Government; and acquitted with A NARRATIVE OF HIS CASE To which is now added, being never printed before, THE TRIAL of Mr. WILLIAM OWEN, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Who was also Charged with [...]
