A Catalogue of Flowers
- Feb 20
- 4 min read
A Catalogue of Flowers, Both Such as Are Yearly to Be Raised of Seed, and Others of Diverse Kinds, for the Furnishing of Flower Pots, and Adorning the Rooms of Houses
A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used; with Their Significations and Original, in Two Alphabetical Catalogues, the One of Such As Are Proper to the Northern, the Other to the Southern Counties, with Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: An Account of the Preparing and Refining Such Metals and Minerals As Are Gotten in England
A Collection Without Order, Drawn from Many Papers, Which I Have Copied Here, Hoping to Arrange Them Later Each in Its Place, According to the Subjects of Which They Treat
A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety
A Plain Philosophical Demonstration of the Nature, Faculties, and Effects of All Such Things as by Way of Nourishments Make for the Preservation of Health, Also of the True Use and Effects of Sleep and Exercise
A Plan for the Employment of Time and Improvement of the Mind, Arranged According to the Nature and Relative Importance of the Studies Necessary to Be Daily Pursued
A Register, Or Orderly Collection of Things Which Occur Worthy to Be Noted, and Retained in the Course of a Man's Reading, Or Study; So Disposed, As That Among A Multiplicity of Subjects, Any One May Be Easily Found
A Treatise for Designers and Makers Containing Illustrated Descriptions of a Large Variety of Selected Designs for All Kinds of Operations, with Practical Information and Data on Approved Designing Practice and Design Construction
A Treatise of Domestic Medicine, Intended for Families, in Which the Treatment of Common Disorders Are Alphabetically Enumerated. To Which Is Added, A Practical System of Domestic Cookery, Describing the Best, Most Economical, and Most Wholesome Methods of Dressing Victuals; Intended for the Use of Families Who Do Not Affect Magnificence in Their Style of Living. Also, the Art of Preserving All Kinds of Vegetable Substances for Many Years
Alphabetical, Miscellaneous and Supplementary, Containing A Gazetteer Or Complete Vocabulary of Geography and Etymological Lexicon of the English Language, Or the History of English Words, the Citations Arranged According to the Age of the Works From Which They Are Selected, Yet with Every Attention to the Independent Beauty Or Value of the Sentences Chosen Which Is Consistent with the Higher Ends of A Clear Insight Into the Original and Acquired Meaning of Every Word
An Endorsement of the Power of Dailiness, and An Invitation to Re-See the Too-Often Overlooked "Infraordinary" That Surrounds Us - Those Sights, Sounds, and Subtle Changes That We Think of As Common and Familiar, But Which Can Come Alive with Delightful Possibility When Paid Attention To
An Essay Upon Prints, Containing Remarks Upon the Principles of Picturesque Beauty, the Different Kinds of Prints, and the Characters of the Most Noted Masters. To Which Are Added, Some Cautions
Applied Harmony: A Text-Book for Those Who Desire a Better Understanding of Music and An Increase in Power of Expression Either in Performance or Creative Work
Excerpt From Philosophical Principles of Religion, Natural and Revealed: in Two Parts, Part I. Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy and the Proofs of Natural Religion Arising From Them; Part 2. Containing the Nature and Kinds of Infinites, Their Arithmetick and Uses
List of Things to Do, in Not Sequenced Order and Being More Like Ideas or Suggestions, with the Intent to Assist in the Becoming of a Better Person and Development of New Skills and More Interest
New Principles of Gardening, Or, the Laying Out and Planting Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths, Avenues, Parks, &c. after a More Grand and Rural Manner, Than Has Been Done Before; with Experimental Directions for Raising the Several Kinds of Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Ever-Greens and Flowering-Shrubs with Which Gardens Are Adorn'd. To Which is Added, the Various Names, Descriptions, Temperatures, Medicinal Virtues, Uses and Cultivations of Several Roots, Pulse, Herbs, &c. of the Kitchen and Physick Gardens, That Are Absolutely Necessary for the Service of Families in General. Illustrated with Great Variety of Grand Designs, curiously Engraven on Twenty Eight Folio Plates, By the Best Hands
The Great Duty of Contentment, and Resignation, to the Will of God, Recommended: Shewing the Ways and Means How to Attain Such a Temper of Mind as Will Make Us Happy in the Worst Circumstances We May Possibly Fall Into
The Itinerary of a Breakfast; A Popular Account of the Travels of a Breakfast Through the Food Tube and of the Ten Gates and Several Stations Through Which It Passes, Also of the Obstacles Which It Sometimes Meets
The Sea-Man's Dictionary: or, An Exposition and Demonstration of All the Parts and Things Belonging to A Ship: Together with An Explanation of All the Terms and Phrases Used in the Practice of Navigation
The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety
Things New and Old Or, A Store-House of Similes, Sentences, Allegories, Apothegms, Adages, Apologues, Divine, Moral, Political &C with Their Several Applications. Collected and Observed from the Writings and Sayings of the Learned in All Ages to This Present