Item of the Day: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1793)

Full Title: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. By Dugald Stewart. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, Bookseller, No. 52, Second-Street, the Corner of Chestnut-Street, M, DCC, XCIII.
INTRODUCTION.
PART FIRST.
Of the Nature and Object of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.
 
THE prejudice which is commonly entertained against metaphysical speculations seems to arise chiefly from two [...]

Item of the Day: An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense (1817)

Full Title: An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense. By Thomas Reid. Glasgow: Printed by W. Falconer, and sold by the booksellers, 1817.
[First published 1764].
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAMES, EARL OF FINDLATER AND SEAFIELD
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OLD ABERDEEN
My Lord,
Though I apprehend that there are things new and of some importance, [...]

Item of the Day: Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (1800)

Full Title: Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical. By Benjamin Count of Rumford . . .  Volume I. Fifth Edition. London: Printed by A. Stahan, for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, Strand, 1800.
 
 AN ACCOUNT
OF AN
ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE POOR
AT MUNICH.
Together with
A Detail of various Public Measures, connected with that Institution, which have been adopted and carried into [...]

Item of the Day: Swift’s Rules for Servants (1753)

Full Title:  Miscellanies.  By Dr. Swift.  The Eleventh Volume.  London:  Printed for C. Hitch, C. Davis, C. Bathurst, R. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer.  MDCCLIII.
RULES that concern All Servants in general.
 When your Master or Lady calls a Servant by Name, if that Servant be not in the Way, none of you are to answer, for then there [...]

Item of the Day: The Adventurer (1770)

Full Title:  The ADVENTURER. By John Hawkesworth. Volume the Fourth.  New Edition.  London:  Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, etc.  MDCCLXX.
Tuesday, November 27, 1753.
The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to [...]

Item of the Day: Horace Walpole on the Death and Funeral of George II from Walpole’s Private Correspondence (1760)

Full Title:  Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Now First Collected.  In Four Volumes.  vol. II. 1756-1764.  London:  Printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond-Street; and Colburn and Co., Conduit-Street. 1820.
To the EARL of STRAFFORD.
Arlington-street, October 26, 1760.
My Dear Lord,
I beg your pardon for so long a silence in the late reign; I knew nothing [...]

Item of the Day: Plinie’s Naturall Historie (1601)

Full Title:
The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. Printed in London by Adam Islip, 1601.
Excerpt from the Eighth Booke, Chap. XVI. “Of Lions.”
The Lions are then in their kind most strong and courageous, when the haire of their main [...]

Item of the Day: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)

Full Title:  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies.  Boston:  Printed by Mein and Fleeming, and to be sold by John Mein, at the London Book-Store, Northside of King-Street. MDCCLXVIII.
LETTERS FROM A FARMER.
LETTER I.
My dear Countrymen,
I am a Farmer, settled after a variety of fortunes, near the banks, of [...]

Item of the Day: The Works of Alexander Pope (1770)

Full Title:  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes, Complete.  With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements:  together With the Commentary and Notes of his Editor.  London:  Printed for C. Bathhurst, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law,  Johnson and Davenport, T. Davies, T. [...]

Item of the Day: An Abridgment of the Laws, and Ordinances of New-England, to the Year 1700 (1720)

[FOUND IN] — Full Title: The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country To the Year of our Lord, 1700. To which is added, The Present State of New-England, with a New and Accurate Map of the Country. And an Appendix, Containing their Present Charter, their [...]