constitution of their churches, and their separation from the Church of England. In a letter of Mr. D. W. a dissenting teacher to one of his flock who went astray; together with some farther account of their principles and practices upon those points. [By Theophilus DORRINGTON, M.A., rector of Wittnessham, Kent.]

London: 1710. Octavo. Pp. 20. 330.* [Bodl.]

DISSENTERS (the) vindicated; or, a short view of the present state of the protestant religion in Britain, as it is now professed in the Episcopal Church of England, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the dissenters in both. In answer to some reflections on Mr. Webster's two books, published in Scotland. [By Daniel DEFOE.]

London 1707. Octavo. [Wilson, Life of
Defoe, 98.]

DISSENTING (the) academies, against
Mr Sacheverel's misrepresentation of
'em... [By James OWEN.]
London, 1704. Quarto. [Adv. Lib.]
DISSENTING (the) casuist: or, the
second part of a Dialogue between
Prejudice, a dissenting country gentle-
man, and Reason, a student in the
University. Being I. A clear justifica-
tion of the execution of the laws
against dissenters. II. A comparison
of the arguments on both sides concern-
ing monarchy in general. III. Con-
cerning an elective kingdom, or whether
a lawful successor or true heir upon
any misdemeanours may be excluded.
[By Thomas WOOD.]

London, 1682. Quarto.* [Bodl.] Address to the reader signed T. W. DISSENTING (the) gentleman's answer to the Reverend Mr. White's three letters; in which a separation from the Establishment is fully justified; the charge of schism is refuted and retorted; and the Church of England and the Church of Jesus Christ, are impartially compared, and found to be constitutions of a quite different nature. [By Micaiah TOWGOOD.] The second edition.

London: M.DCC.XLVI. Octavo.* [Bodl.] Signed A dissenter.

DISSENTING (the) gentleman's second

letter to... Mr White, in answer to his three letters, in which his various misrepresentations of the dissenters are corrected, his objections against them

answer'd, and the grounds of their dissent are further represented, to which is added a postscript, containing remarks on Mr White's Defence of his three letters, &c. [By Micaiah TowGOOD.]

London: 1747. Octavo.

DISSENTING (the) gentleman's third Letter to the Reverend Mr White, in answer to his two defences of his three Letters, in which his misrepresentations of the Dissenters, are further disproved, &c. [By Micaiah ToWGOOD.] London: 173[4?]8. Octavo. Signed 'A dissenter.'

DISSENTING (the) ministers' friendly

reply to a Second friendly address [by Robert S. Candlish, D.D.] from ministers of the Establishment. [By Hugh HEUGH, D.D.]

[Edinburgh.] N. D. Octavo.* DISSERTATION (a) against pronouncing the Greek language according to accents. [By Henry GALLY, D.D.] London, MDCCLIV. Octavo. Pp. viii. b. t. 149. [Bodl.]

*

DISSERTATION (a) concerning inoculation of the small pox. [By William DOUGLASS.]

:

Boston 1736. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]
Signed W. D.

DISSERTATION (a) concerning_the being of a God. [By William SALMON.]

London: 1710. Octavo. 2 sh. [Smith's
Cat. of Friends' books, i. 526.]

DISSERTATION (a) concerning the
Lord's Supper. By the author of the
Dissertation concerning water - bap-
tism. [William SALMON.]

London: 1708. Octavo. Pp. xix. 74.* A second part was published in 1709. DISSERTATION (a) concerning the use and authority of ecclesiastical history by the author of the Snake in the grass. [Charles LESLIE.] In a letter to the abridger.

London: 1703. Octavo.*

The above is prefixed to "Eusebius Pamphilus his ten books of ecclesiastical history, faithfully translated and abridg'd from the original. By Samuel Parker, Gent." DISSERTATION (a) concerning waterbaptism. The second part. By the author of the First. [William SALMON.] London, 1701. Octavo.*

For the First part see A dissertation upon water-baptism.

DISSERTATION (a) in vindication of the antiquity of Stone Henge, in answer to the treatises of Mr. Inigo Jones, Dr. Charleton, and all that have written upon that subject. By a clergyman living in the neighbourhood of that famous monument of antiquity. [Stamford WALLIS.]

Sarum: 1730. Octavo.*

The Bodleian copy, which belonged to Tho. Hearne, has the following note in his handwriting.- -"Tis nothing but an Extract from Webb, abating some abusive expressions of the thief, who sufficiently exposeth himself by endeavouring to detract from the reputation of those great men Olaus Wormius, and Dr. Walter Charleton. Tho I differ from Dr. Charleton, yet I think the Dr. hath supported his opinion very well, and deserved thanks rather than obloquy. At least it is very unbecoming, for such mean writers as the publisher of this extract, to attack such a worthy man as the Dr. certainly was, in so rude a manner.

DISSERTATION (a) in which the defence of P. Sulla, ascribed to M. Tullius Cicero, is clearly proved to be spurious; after the manner of Mr. Markland with some introductory remarks on other writings of the antients never before suspected. [By John Ross, M. A., Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.]

:

London: N.D. Octavo. Pp. 82.* [Bodl.]

DISSERTATION (a): in which the objections of a late pamphlet [by John Ross, A.M.] to writings of the antients, after the manner of Mr. Markland, are clearly answer'd; those passages in Tully corrected, on which some of the objections are founded: with amendments of a few pieces of criticism in Mr. Markland's Epist. critica. [By William BOWYER.]

London: M. DCC. XLVI. Octavo. Pp. 60.* On the title-page of the Bodleian copy, there is the following MS. note by Dr. Parr.-"Mr Bowyear wrote, or assisted in, this pamphlet."

DISSERTATION (a) on anecdotes. By the author of Curiosities of literature. [Isaac D'ISRAELI.]

London: 1793. Octavo. Pp. vii. 83. [W.]

DISSERTATION (a) on Jacob's prophecy, Gen. xlix. 10. [Here follows the passage in Hebrew, Greek, Latin,

Y

and English.] Humbly offered as a supplement to [Sherlock] the Bishop of London's admirable dissertation on the same text. [By John SKINNER, Langside.]

London: 1757. Octavo.* DISSERTATION (a) on liberty and necessity: wherein the process of ideas, from their first entrance into the soul, until their production of action, is delineated. With some remarks upon the late Reverend Dr. Clarke's reasoning on this point. And an epistle dedicatory to truth. By A. C. Esq; [Anthony COLLINS.] London. M. DCC. XXIX. Mus.] DISSERTATION on St. Paul's voyage from Cæsarea to Puteoli, on the wind Euroclydon, and on the apostle's shipwreck on the island of Melite. By a layman. [William FALCONER.]

Octavo.* [Brit.

London: M.DCC. XL. Quarto.* [Boll.] DISSERTATION (a) on the antiquity, origin, and design of the principal pyramids of Egypt, particularly of the great pyramid of Ghizeeh, with its measures, as reported by various authors; and the probable determination of the ancient Hebrew and Egyptian cubit. Also, on the original form and measures of the ark of Noah. [By Thomas YEATES.] Illustrated with drawings and suitable descriptions. London: MDCCCXXXIII. Quarto. Pp. viii. 29, besides plates and descriptive letter-press unpaged. [N. and Q., 2 June 1866, p. 460.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the chronology of the Septuagint. With an appendix, shewing, that the Chaldean and Egyptian antiquities, hitherto esteem'd fabulous, are perfectly consistent with the computations of that most ancient version of the Holy Scriptures. By

DISSERTATION (a) on

the geography of Herodotus, with a map. Researches into the history of the Scythians, Getæ, and Sarmatians. Translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr. [By D. A. TALBOYS.] Oxford, M DCCC xxx. Octavo.* DISSERTATION (a) on the geometrical analysis of the antients. With a collection of theorems and problems, without solutions, for the exercise of young students. [By John LAWSON, B.D., rector of Swanscome, Kent.]

Canterbury, MDCCLXXIV.
xxiv. b. t. 32.*

Octavo. Pp.

DISSERTATION (a) on the governments, manners, and spirit of Asia. [By Rev. John LOGAN.]

London 1787. [D'Israeli, Calamities of authors, i. 215.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the idea of universal poetry. [By R. HURD, Bishop of Worcester ?]

London: 1766. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] DISSERTATION (a) on the massacre of Glencoe. [By – PANTON.] 1812. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 901.] DISSERTATION (a) on the message from St. John the Baptist to Saviour; St. Luke vii. 19. With remarks on the history of his life and ministry. [By Charles William BATT.] London: MDCCLXXXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 64.* [Nichols, Lit. Anec., ix. 62.]

Our

Another edition, with the author's name, was published in 1789.

DISSERTATION (a) on the method of inoculating the small pox; with critical remarks on the several authors, who have treated of this disease. By J. C. [J. CASTRO], M.D.

London: 1721. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the numbers of mankind in antient and modern times in which the superior populousness of antiquity is maintained. With an appendix, containing additional observations on the same subject, and some remarks on Mr. Hume's Political discourse of the populousness of antient nations. [By Robert WALLACE, D.D.] Edinburgh: 1753. Octavo. Pp. iv. 331.* [Brit. Mus.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the passage of Hannibal over the Alps. By a member of the university of Oxford. [John Anthony CRAMER, D.D.] Oxford, 1820. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] Ascribed also to H. L. Wickham. DISSERTATION (a) on the plan, use and importance, of the Universal dictionary of trade and commerce; translated from the French of the late celebrated Mons. Savary, inspector-general of the manufactures for the king, at the custom-house of Paris: with such considerable additions and improvements, as will appear at large throughout this dissertation; and which more particularly accommodate the same

to the trade and navigation of the British empire. Addressed to the nobility, gentry, merchants, and traders of Great Britain. [By Malachy POSTLETHWAYT.]

London: 1749. Quarto. Pp. 53. b. t.* DISSERTATION (a) on the poor-laws. By a well wisher to mankind. [Joseph TOWNSEND.]

London: 1786. Octavo. [M'Cull. Lit.
Pol. Econ., p. 281.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the power of the Church; in a middle way, betwixt those who screw it up to the highest, with the Papists and Scottish Presbyterians on the one hand; and the Erastians and followers of Hugo Grotius, who on the other hand, do wholly reject the intrinsic spiritual authority wherewith Jesus Christ hath vested the rulers of his Church. By P. M. [Patrick MIDDLETON, presbyter of the Church of Scotland.]

London, 1733. Octavo.* [New Coll. Cat.] DISSERTATION (a) on the primary objects of idolatrous worship; being a farther attempt to divest tradition of fable. [By Samuel Roffey MAITLAND.] London: MDCCCXVII. Octavo. Pp. 52. b. t.*

DISSERTATION (a) on the religious knowledge of the antient Jews and patriarchs; containing an inquiry into the evidences of their belief and expectation of a future state. [By Stephen ADDINGTON, D.D.]

London: 1757- Quarto. [Watt, Bib.
Brit.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the Scripture expressions, the Angel of the Lord, and the Angel of Jesus Christ, proving that the word angel is put to signify on these occasions material bodies, and not spirit: interspersed with many other curious observations quite new ; and containing a full answer to a late essay on Spirit, which is calculated to set aside the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity. [By William JONES of Nayland.]

London: M.DCCLII. Octavo. Pp. viii. 68.* [Bodl.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the xviith article of the Church of England; wherein the sentiments of the compilers, and other contemporary reformers, on the subject of the divine decrees, are fully deduced from their own writings. To

which is subjoined, a short tract,
ascertaining the reign and time, in
which the royal declaration before the
xxxix articles was first published. [By
Thomas WINCHESTER.]

Oxford: MDCCLXXIII. Octavo. [Watt,
Bib. Brit.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the Song of Solomon: with the original text, divided according to the metre; and a poetical version. [By Andrew GIFFORD.]

London: MDCCLI. Octavo. Pp. iii. b. t. 107.* [Orme, Bib. Bib.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the stone in the bladder; in which are consider'd the nature of the human calculus, the doctrine of menstruums, or the dissolvent for the stone, and how far they are agreeable to the laws of philosophy. In a letter to a physician in London. [By W. SHAW.]

London: 1738. Quarto. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

DISSERTATION (a) on the weekly festival of the christian church, in which the principal questions concerning Sunday and the Sabbath are discussed. [By Richard AMNER.] London: 1768. Duodecimo. Pp. 256. [Cox, Literature of the Sabbath question, ii. 210.]

DISSERTATION (a) on weights and measures, and the best means of revising them; published originally in the British Review, No. XVII, 1817. [By Dr. Olinthus GREGORY.]

London: 1817. Octavo. [W.] DISSERTATION (a) upon Oriuna, said to be the Empress, or Queen of England, the supposed wife of Carausius, monarch and emperor of Britain, who reigned in the time of Diocletian, the great persecutor of christians, whom he was at war with for many years, until received as colleague with him in the Roman Empire. Illustrated with the coin of Oriuna, and several others most remarkable of Carausius, hitherto not made public; this coin of her's being lately sent to France to his most Christian Majesty. [By John KENNEDY, D.M.]

London, MDCCLI. Quarto.* [Bodl.] DISSERTATION (a) upon pamphlets, and the undertaking of Phoenix Britannicus, to revive the most ex

DISSERTATION (a) upon the account supposed to have been given of Jesus Christ by Josephus, being an attempt to shew that this celebrated passage, some slight corruptions only excepted, may reasonably be esteemed genuine. [By Nathaniel FORSTER, B.D., F.R.S.] Oxford: 1745. Octavo. [Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

DISSERTATION (a) upon the argument a priori for proving the existence of a First cause. In a letter to Mr. Law. [By Daniel WATERLAND, D.D.] [Cambridge: MDCCXXXIV.] Octavo. Pp. 98.*

DISSERTATION (a) upon the uncertainty of the Roman history during the first five hundred years. In two parts. Part I. A critical inquiry concerning the original records, memorials, treaties, and other monuments, from whence proper materials could be drawn for compiling the history of the first ages of Rome; and of the historians who compiled the same. Part II. An examination of some of the principal events that are said to have happen'd during that period; wherein the inconsistency of the historians with one another, and with the few original pieces that were sav'd, when Rome was burnt by the Gauls, is prov'd. Translated from the French [of Louis de BEAUFORT].

London: MDCCXL. Duodecimo.* [Barbier.]

DISSERTATION (a) upon waterbaptism. [By William SALMON, M.D.]

London, 1700. Octavo.*

DISSERTATIONS on the antient history of Ireland, wherein an account is given of the origine, government, letters, sciences, religion, &c. of the antient inhabitants. [By Charles O'CONOR.]

Dublin, 1753. Octavo. [Athen. Cat., p. 226.] DISSERTATIONS on the opening of the sealed book; illustrating the prophetic signs used in Daniel and the Revelation. Printed from a transcript of the papers signed Biblicus, published in the London Star. [By Alexander TILLOCH, LL.D.] With additional notes.

Arbroath 1819. Octavo. Pp. viii. 192.* [Orme, Bib. Bib.]

DISSIPATION, a novel. [By Mrs. HARDING.] In three volumes.

London. Duodecimo. [Gent. Mag., June 1858, p. 684.]

DISSUASIVE from enquiring into the doctrine of the Trinity: or, the difficulties and discouragements which attend the study of that doctrine. In a letter to a friend. [By Daniel WHITBY.] London, 1714. Octavo.*

DISSUASIVE (a) from Jacobitism:

shewing in general what the nation is to expect from a Popish king; and in particular from the Pretender. [By John Shute BARRINGTON, Ist VisBarrington.] The second

count

edition corrected. London, 1713. Octavo. [Bodl.] DISSWASIVE (a) from conformity to the world. As also God's severity against impenitent sinners. With a farewel sermon lately preached to a congregation in London. By H. S. minister of the Gospel. [Henry STUBBE, or STUBBES.]

London, 1675. Duodecimo. Pp. 8. b. t. 224.*

DISSWASIVE (a) from gaming. By a minister of the Church of England. [Josiah WOODWARD, D.D.] London: 1718. Duodecimo. [Bodl.] DISSWASIVE (a) from the sin of drunkenness. By a minister of the Church of England. [Josiah WOODWARD, D.D.]

London, 1704. Duodecimo.* [Bodl.]