The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crewsDefoe, Daniel
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The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crews
Defoe, Daniel
Pirates -- Early works to 1800
A Collection of several Tracts of the Right Honourable
_Edward_ Earl of _Clarendon_, Author of the History of the
Rebellion and Civil Wars of _England_, viz. I. A Discourse by
Way of Vindication of himself, from the Charge of High
Treason brought against him by the House of Commons. II.
Reflections upon several Christian Duties, divine and moral,
by Way of Essays. 1. Humane Nature. 2. Of Life. 3. Reflections
upon the Happiness which we enjoy in and from our selves. 4.
Of impudent Delight in Wickedness. 5. Of Drunkenness. 6. Of
Envy. 7. Of Pride. 8. Of Anger. 9. Of Patience in Adversity.
10. Of Contempt of Death, and the best providing for it. 11.
Of Friendship. 12. Of Counsel and Conversation. 13. Of
Promises. 14. Of Liberty. 15. Of Industry. 16. Of Sickness.
17. Of Repentance. 18. Of Conscience. 19. Of an active, and of
a contemplative Life, and when and why the one ought to be
preferr'd to the other. 20. Of War. 21. Of Peace. 22. Of
Sacrilege. 23. A Discourse of the Reverence due to Antiquity.
24. A Discourse against multiplying Controversies by insisting
upon Particulars not necessary to the Point in Debate. 25. A
Dialogue concerning the Want of Respect due to Age. 26. A
Dialogue concerning Education, _&c._ 27. Contemplations and
Reflections upon the Psalms of _David_, with Devotions
applicable to the Trouble of the Times.
_N. B._ None of these Pieces were ever printed before, and the
Original Manuscript in his Lordship's Hand-writing may be seen
at _T. Woodward_'s.
A New System of Agriculture: Being a Compleat Body of
Husbandry and Gardening, in all the Parts of them, _viz._
Husbandry in the Field, and its Improvements. Of Forrest and
Timber Trees, great and small, with Ever Greens and
Flowering Shrubs, _&c._ Of the Fruit Garden. Of the Kitchen
Garden. Of the Flower Garden. In Five Books. Containing all
the best and latest, as well as many new Improvements;
useful to the Husbandman, Grasier, Planter, Gardiner and
Florist. Wherein are interspersed many curious Observations on
Vegetation, on the Diseases of Trees, and the general
Annoyances to Vegetables, and their probable Cures. As also, A
Particular Account of the famous Silphium of the Ancients. By
_John Lawrence_, M. A. Rector of _Bishops Weremouth_ in the
Bishoprick of _Durham_, and Prebendary of the Church of
_Sarum_.
The Life and surprizing Adventures of _Robinson Crusoe_, of
_York_, Mariner, who lived 28 Years all alone in an
uninhabited Island, on the Coast of _America_, near the Mouth
of the River _Oroonoque_, having been cast on Shore by
Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but Himself. With
an Account how he was, at last, as strangely delivered by
Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Seventh Edition, adorn'd with
Cuts, in 2 Vols.
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