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Sir John Hill (1714?-1775)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Sir John Hill

Date of birth: 1714?

Date of death: 1775

Source of information: Special Collections

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Anglo-French 2 1750/HIL: Lucina sine concubitu. Lettre addressée à la Société royale de Londres, dans laquelle on prouve, par une évidence incontestable, tirée de la raison & de la pratique, qu'une femme peut concevoir, sans avoir de commerce avec aucun homme. Traduit sur la quatriéme Edition angloise, avec un commentaire trés curieux, qui ne s'est pas encore trouvé dans les editions précedentes d'Abraham Johnson

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Anglo-French 2 1760/STA: L'elixir de la morale indienne ou oeconomie de la vie humaine, composé par un ancien Bramine, & publié en langue chinoise par un fameux bonze de Pekin; avec une lettre écrite par un gentilhomme anglois demeurant actuellement à la Chine, contenant la manière dont le manuscript de cet ouvrage a été trouvé... le tout traduit de l'anglois

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Anglo-French 2 1785/STA: La morale indienne, ou economie de la vie humaine. Traduit de l'anglois

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Anglo-French 3 1750/ROE: Concubitus sine Lucina, ou, Le plaisir sans peine : réponse à la lettre intitulée Lucina sine concubitu

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Anglo-French 3 1751/STA: Le Bramine inspiré

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Anglo-French 3 1751/STA: The oeconomy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin... [etc.] = L'economie de la vie humaine. Traduite sur un Manuscript Indien, composé par un ancien bramine. On a mis à la tête une Lettre d'un Gentilhomme anglois demeurant à la chine, addressée au comte de ***. Qui contient un récit de la maniére dont ce manuscript a été découvert. : ouvrage traduit en françois sur la traduction angloise du manuscrit indien d'un ancien Bramine

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Anglo-French 3 1752/STA: L'economie de la vie humaine

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Anglo-French 3 1752/STA: Oeconomie de la vie humaine : ouvrage traduit en françois sur la traduction angloise du manuscrit indien d'un ancien Bramine

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Anglo-French 3 1769/GAR: Garrick; ou, les acteurs anglois : ouvrage contenant des observations sur l'art dramatique, sur l'art de la représentation, & le jeu des acteurs. Avec des notes historiques & critiques, & des anecdotes sur les différens théâtres de Londres & de Paris. Traduit de l'anglois

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Anglo-French 3 1781/STA: L'art de vivre heureux dans la socièté

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Anglo-French 3 1802/STA: Economie de la vie humaine, traduit de l'anglais. Par L. G. Taillefer... [etc.]

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Anglo-French 4 1773/HIL: Le sommeil des plantes, et la cause du mouvement de la sensitive

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Anglo-German STA: Das Buch der Weisheit und der Jugend, oder die Verfassung des menschlichen Lebens, aus einer indianischen Handschrift eines alten Braminen übersezt, und aus China nach Londen an den Herrn Grafen von Chesterfield gesandt. Nebst einem Anhang sinnreicher Gedanken des berühmten Herrn Pope und Swift. Sämtlich aus dem Englischen übersezt

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BC Lt d/REM: The actor : a treatise on the art of playing : interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences

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BC Lt q/HIL: A review of the works of the Royal Society of London : containing animadversions on such of the papers as deserve particular observation. In eight parts: under the several heads of arts, antiquities, medicine, miracles, zoophytes, animals, vegetables, minerals

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BC Lt/HIL: Observations on the Greek and Roman classics in a series of letters to a young nobleman. Now published for the use of gentlemen at the university... . To which are added, Remarks on the Italian language and writers. In a letter from M. Joseph Baretti to an English gentleman at Turin, written in the year 1751

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BC Lt/HIL: The adventures of Mr. George Edwards, a Creole

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BC Pol/TIN: A dissertation on Royal Societies : In three letters from a nobleman on his travels to a person of distinction in Sclavonia. Containing an account of an assembly of a Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, a description of a meeting of a Royal Society in London, and a coffee-house conversation. With explanatory notes

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BC Rom Fraser/CAN/F: The story of Elizabeth Canning considered

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BC Rom/CAN: The story of Elizabeth Canning considered

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BC Rom/HIL: The story of Elizabeth Canning considered

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Chaston Chapman Royal Society/HIL: A review of the works of the Royal Society of London : containing animadversions on such of the papers as deserve particular observation. In eight parts: under the several heads of arts, antiquities, medicine, miracles, zoophytes, animals, vegetables, minerals

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Cookery A/HIL: The family herbal, or, an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience

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Cookery A/HIL: The gardener's new kalendar : divided according to the twelve months of the year, and under each month into separate weeks. Illustrated with elegant and useful figures. Containing the whole practice of gardening, under the four general heads, 1. the pleasure garden, 2. the kitchen garden, 3. the seminary, 4. the fruit garden and orchard. And directing what is to be done every week; and the manner of doing it: with the general culture of hardy, greenhouse, and stove plants; the raising tender annuals, and the management of flowers. The system of Linnæus is also explained in this work, and illustrated with figured; exhibiting the characters of all the classes. And the method of designing, and laying out a garden in the modern taste; with a copper plate figure, elegantly engraved from a drawing of Mr. Wale, after a design laid down in the complete body of gardening

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Cookery A/HIL: The old man's guide to health and longer life : with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one

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Cookery A/HIL: The useful family-herbal : or, an account of all those English plants which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience

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Cookery A/HIL: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others: particularly the gravel, asthmas, coughs, hoarseness, and a tough morning phlegm: with a particular direction... for the cure of consumptions ... To which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey... With the genuine receipt for the syrup of Capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection

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Early Education/STA: The economy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin

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Early Science 1 1865/HIL: Lucina sine concubitu; ou, La génération solitaire

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Early Science 4 1771/HIL: Fossils arranged according to their obvious characters : with their history and description; under the articles of form, hardness, weight, surface, colour, and qualities, the place of their production, their uses, and distinctive English, and classical Latin names

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Early Science 6 1751/HIL: A general natural history : or, New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics... including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages

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Education 370.11/SEY: On the management and education of children : a series of letters written to a neice [sic]

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English K-0.034/GRE: Lucina sine concubitu. A letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed, without any commerce with man

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English K-51.7/STA: The oeconomy of human life : in two parts

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Greek G-4/THE: Theophrastou tou Eresiou Peri tōn lithōn biblion = Theophrastus's History of stones. With an English version, and critical and philosophical notes, including the modern history of the gems, &c, described by that author, and of many other of the native fossils

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Greek G-4/THE: Theophrastou tou Eresiou Peri tōn lithōn biblion = Theophrastus's History of stones. With an English version, and notes, including the modern history of the gems described by that author, and of many other of the native fossils. To which are added, two letters: I. On the colours of the sapphire and turquoise. II. Upon the effects of different menstruums on copper. Both tending to illustrate the doctrine of the gems being coloured by metalline particles

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Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3: A history of the materia medica : Containing descriptions of all the substances used in medicine; their origin, their characters when in perfection, the signs of their decay, their chymical analysis, and an account of their virtues, and of the several preparations from them now used in the shops

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Large Cookery A/HIL: The British herbal : an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty

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Occultism/THE: Traité des pierres de Théophraste

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YAS 1920: A compleat body of husbandry : containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer and country gentleman, in cultivating, planting, and stocking of land : in judging of the several kinds of seeds, and of manures; and in the management of arable and pasture grounds; together with the most approved methods of practice in the several branches of husbandry, from sowing the seed, to getting in the crop; and in breeding and preserving cattle, and curing their diseases : to which is annexed the whole management of the orchard, the brewhouse, and the dairy

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Yorkshire H-Lee-8/STA: L'economia della vita umana