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Author Charles Rollin 2627 David Hume 1561 William Robertson 1262 Oliver Goldsmith 1206 William Fordyce Mavor 970 Plutarch 917 Joseph Addison 804 Homer 678 Sir Walter Scott 669 Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 609 Francis Hutcheson 546 Sir Richard Steele 545 Samuel Clarke 523 Henry Fielding 520 Alexander Pope 459 Nathaniel Hooke 449 Jonathan Swift 439 John Campbell 397 Marcus Tullius Cicero 397 Henry Home Lord Kames 376 William Guthrie 361 Samuel Richardson 354 Paul Rapin de Thoyras 348 Eliza Fowler Haywood 344 Xenophon of Athens 343 Robert Dodsley 340 Tobias George Smollett 324 William Shakespeare 323 John Locke 321 Dr Samuel Johnson 319 Virgil 316 Abbé René Aubert de Vertot 315 Voltaire 281 Noël Antoine Pluche 278 James Lind 273 John Leland 273 John Hawkesworth 254 Baron Albrecht von Haller 249 Thomas Reid 248 Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges 243 Sir Isaac Newton 243 John Tillotson 242 James Macpherson 239 Isaac Watts 238 Samuel Ward 233 Colin MacLaurin 220 Thomas Salmon 212 Adam Ferguson 201 William Russell 201 Gilbert Burnet 196 Robert Whytt 195 Johann Lorenz Mosheim 189 Alexander Monro 188 Daniel Defoe 188 Royal Society (Great Britain) 188 James Beattie 185 Donald Monro 183 Hugh Blair 182 Thomas Mortimer 177 George Campbell 173 Robert Watson 173 Adam Smith 172 George Anson Baron Anson 172 Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 172 Matthew Poole 170 Henry Brooke 169 William Cullen 169 Livy 164 Herman Moll 162 Patrick Abercromby 160 Percivall Pott 159 Molière 158 Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay 156 Terence 156 James Thomson 152 Sir John Pringle 152 William Derham 152 Joseph Priestley 151 Henry Grove 150 Conyers Middleton 149 David Macbride 149 John Huxham 147 Thomas Pennant 146 Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury 145 Samuel Sharp 144 Joseph Butler 142 Dr John Moore 141 Humphrey Prideaux 139 John Ray 139 Euclid 135 Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 134 John Abernethy 134 Maria Edgeworth 134 Ralph Cudworth 134 George Buchanan 132 James Harris 132 Jean-François Marmontel 131 Joseph Warton 128 Cornelius Tacitus 125 Frances Burney 124
Book Work World Displayed; or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations 1799 Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 1555 History of England [David Hume] 1258 Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [William Fordyce Mavor] 952 Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 656 Lives [Plutarch] 590 Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 588 Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium [Charles Rollin] 561 New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 504 History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI 490 Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 444 Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres 407 History of the Earth, and Animated Nature 386 Iliad 380 Spectator 378 Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 372 New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels 369 History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V 361 History of England [Paul Rapin de Thoyras] 348 System of Moral Philosophy [Francis Hutcheson] 347 Sermons [Samuel Clarke] 304 Preceptor: Containing A General Course of Education 300 Collection of Voyages and Travels 257 Works of Virgil 253 History of America [William Robertson] 248 Works of Jonathan Swift 247 Works of William Shakespeare 247 Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd 244 Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully 243 Works of Alexander Pope 243 General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 241 Dr Goldsmith's Roman History abridged by Himself for the Use of Schools 240 Modern System of Natural History 233 History of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, styled afterwards, the Knights of Rhodes, and at present, the Knights of Malta 229 Works of John Tillotson 219 Elements of Criticism 212 Odyssey 209 Works of Joseph Addison 206 Abridgment of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Death of George II 199 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 194 History of Sir Charles Grandison 192 Works of Xenophon 184 Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 178 Works of Cicero 178 British Plutarch 176 Medical Essays and Observations [Philosophical Society of Edinburgh] 172 Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV 172 Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great 171 History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 171 Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 169 Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense 164 Works of John Locke 162 Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation 160 Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 159 History of Rome [Livy] 157 Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem 156 Modern History: or, The Present State of All Nations 150 Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 149 Comedies [Terence] 148 History of Modern Europe 148 Observations on the Diseases of the Army 146 Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 143 Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere 140 View of the Principal Deistical Writers 139 Works of James Thomson 138 Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley 136 Select Comedies of Molière 133 Female Spectator 131 Essay on the History of Civil Society 129 Theory of Moral Sentiments 127 Amelia 123 Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature 121 Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem 121 Treatise on the Scurvy 121 Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time 120 Essay on Fevers to which is now added, A Dissertation on the Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-throat 119 Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions [Francis Atterbury] 117 Works of Horace 117 Works of Tacitus 116 Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections 115 Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 115 Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 115 Adventurer ... . On Vent'rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below 114 Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca 114 Sketches of the History of Man 114 Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 113 Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776 113 Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain 112 Histories [Herodotus] 110 Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 110 Sermons and Discourses on Practical Subjects [Robert Moss] 110 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 109 Elements of Geometry [Euclid] 108 Haller's Physiology 107 History of Scotland [George Buchanan] 107 Expedition of Cyrus 106 Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 106 Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science 105 Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God 105 Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 104
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