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The Compleat Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, in Prose and Verse: Essays, poems, satires, and epigrams . A collection of original letters on several occasions. Aristaenetus's letters, tr. from the Greek. Letters out of Pliny junior. M. Tully Cicero's letters. Letters from the best French authors. A supplement to the first volume of Mr. Thomas Brown's works.-v. 2. Letters from the dead to the living, and from the living to the dead, both serious and comical.-v. 3. Amusements serious & comical, calculated for the meridian of London. To which is added, ten letters, on several subjects, together with his Pocket-book of common places. Walk round London and Westminster. Letters translated from Aeneas Sylvius. A declamation in defence of gaming, &c. against drunkenness. The dispensary, a farce. Diverting letters, billet-deux, both originals and translations, to gentlemen and ladies. Voyage on the Thames. Poems, translations, lampoons, and satyrs on several occasions. A continuation of the Quaker's sermon. London and Lacedemonian oracles

Thomas Brown

Published: 1710

Total Pages: 480


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