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late an under Secretary of State. To which is added, the journals of the American convention, appointed to frame an ecclesiastical constitution, and prepare a liturgy for the Episcopal Churches in the United States. [By William KNOX.]

London: M.DCC.LXXXIX. Octavo. Pp. 212. b. t.* [Lowndes, Brit. Lib., p. 413.] OBSERVATIONS upon the means by which the communication betwixt the counties of Fife and Mid-Lothian might be improved, and a plan suggested for the establishment of a grand national ferry, upon the Frith of Forth, in the vicinity of Edinburgh. By a trustee of the Fife and Mid-Lothian ferries. [Roger AYTOUN, of Inchdairnie.]

Edinburgh: MDCCCXXVIII. Octavo. Pp.

16.*

OBSERVATIONS upon the ordinance of the Lords and Commons at Westminster. After advice had with their Assembly of divines, for the ordination of ministers pro tempore, according to their directory for ordination, and rules for examination therein expressed. Die Mercurij 2 Octob. 1644. [By Edward BOUGHEN.]

Oxford, 1645. Quarto. Pp. 34. b. t.* [Wood, Athen. Oxon., iii. 389.]

Bishop Barlow's copy in the Bodleian has the following note on the back of the title

"Writt by one Bowen, who flyinge from the rebells, an. 1643, had writt a larger volume of Bishops, which, (Dr. Jer. Taylor's booke of the same subject preuenting him) he printed not. This present treatise is an extract of that great work, or att least those parts of it which concern'd his subject." OBSERVATIONS upon the practical working of the Jury court in Scotland; shewing its defects, and the expediency of certain alterations, particularly in regard to the trial of intricate cases. [By James MILLER, S.S.C.]

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Dr. [William] Wotton. But two replies were published in the same year, whose titles indicate that, in the judgment of the writers, the author was the Earl of Nottingham. The title of the one is "Not--am politicks examin'd. Being an answer to a pamphlet lately publish'd, intituled, Observations upon the state of the nation." The half-title of the other is "Remarks upon my Lord N--ham's State of the nation"; and the full title, "Remarks upon a pamphlet intitul'd, Observations upon the state of the nation, in January, 171."

OBSERVATIONS upon the statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-first of James the First, Ch. xxvii. With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes. [By Hon. Daines BARRINGTON.] The second edition, with corrections and additions.

London: MDCCLXVI. Quarto. Pp. xii. 444.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the treaty between the crowns of Great-Britain, France, and Spain, concluded at Seville on the ninth of November, 1729, N.S. [By Sir Robert WALPOLE.]

London: 1729. Octavo. Pp. 29.* [Bodl.] OBSERVATIONS upon the warre of Hungary. [By Edward LITTLETON, of All Souls'.]

London, 1689. Quarto. Pp. 5. b. t. 47.* [Bodl.]

"Rec'd from the author Mr. Edw. Littleton. 4 Dec. 1694."-MS. note in the hand-writing of Wood.

OBSERVATOR (the) for March 10, 1681. [By Sir Roger L'ESTRANGE.] [Athen. Cat. (Sup.), p. 230.]

OBSERVER (the). [By Richard CUMBERLAND.]

Dublin: M, DCC, LXXXV. Octavo. Pp. 304. b. t.*

The above consists of xl. numbers.

OBSERVER (the) observed, or, remarks on a certain curious tract entitled, 'Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, by Thomas Warton, A.M. &c.' [Attributed to William HUGGINS.]

London: 1756. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., s.v. T. Warton, p. 2848.] OCCASION (the) of the dearness of provisions, and the distress of the poor : with proposals for remedying the calamity, offered to the consideration of the public: wherein the policy of the

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London: 1809. Duodecimo. [W., Martin's Cat.]

OCCASIONAL attempts at sentimental poetry, by a man in business: with some miscellaneous compositions of his friends. [By John HOPE.]

London, MDCCLXIX. Octavo.* "Occasional attempts at sentimental poetry by a man in business" were written by John Hope Esq. grandson of Charles first Earl of Hopetoun, and father of the Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session. Mr Hope was born 7th April 1739. He married 2 June 1762, Mary only daughter of Eliab Breton of Norton, Northampton and of Forty Hall, Enfield, Middlesex. She died 25 June 1767, aged 25, and he committed suicide at Newcastle 21 May 1785. Mr Hope was a merchant in London. He also wrote "Thoughts in prose and verse started in his walks by John Hope." Stockton, 1780. The above is from a MS. note in Mr Maidment's copy.

OCCASIONAL attempts in verse. By W. C. [William COCKIN.]

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Kendal 1776. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.] OCCASIONAL conformity a most unjustifiable practice. In answer to a late pamphlet [by James Owen], entituled, Moderation a virtue. With a short vindication of the Church of England, from that author's groundless reasons for separation. And a postscript, in answer to the eleventh section of Dr. Davenant's essays of peace at home and war abroad. [By Samuel GRASCOME.]

London: 1704. Quarto. Pp. 56. b. t.* [Bodl.]

The Postscript has a separate pagination. OCCASIONAL (the) critic; or the decrees of the Scotch tribunal in the Critical Review rejudged. In which the learning, philosophy, science, taste, knowledge of mankind, history, physic, belles lettres, and polite arts, the candor, integrity, impartiality, abilities,

pretensions, performances, designs, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. of the gentlemen authors of that work, are placed in a true light. [By John SHEBBEARE, M.D.]

London: 1757. Octavo. [W.] OCCASIONAL essays on various subjects, chiefly political and historical. Extracted partly from the publick newspapers during the present reign, and partly from tracts published in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II., and from Bishop Burnet's History of his own times. [By F. MASERES, Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer.]

London 1809. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

Pp. xiv. 607.

By

OCCASIONAL (an) letter on the sub-
ject of English Convocations.
the author of Ecclesiastical synods and
Parliamentary Convocations in the
Church of England. [White KENNETT,
Bishop of Peterborough].

London: 1701.
Octavo. Pp. 139. b. t.*
[Life of Kennett, p. 20.]

OCCASIONAL observations on a double-titled paper, about the clear produce of the civil list revenue, from mid-summer 1727 to mid-summer last. [By George Bubb DODINGTON, Lord Melcombe.]

London 1761. Octavo. [Park's Walpole, iv. 251. Mon. Rev., xxiv. 273.] OCCASIONAL (the) paper: number I. Containing an account of the author's design. Together with some reflexions on a book entituled, A letter to the deists. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D., Bishop of Winchester.]

London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 34. b. t.*

number II. Concerning the late unfortunate death of J. Hen, Esq; with a short character of him; and a reflexion upon the heinousness of the sin of self-murther. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.]

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religion; address'd to the Honourable Lady Howard. In a letter to the same lady. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.] London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 29. b. t.*

: number V. Containing a defence of the ministry and ministers of the Gospel, against the suggestions of some late writers. In a letter to a friend. With a postscript relating to the author of The reasonableness of Christianity. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.]

London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 42. b. t.*

: number VI. Containing some considerations about disputes in religion, and particularly those in which the Church of England is at present concern'd, for the preventing of the ill uses which divers endeavour to make of them. In a letter to a friend. By Richard WILLIS, D.D.] London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 31.*

: number VII. Shewing the usefulness of human learning in matters of religion; contrary to the suggestions of some sceptical men, in their late pamphlets. In a letter to a friend. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.] London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 31.*

: number VIII. Shewing the necessity of such a Christian discipline as is consistent with civil power; in opposition to the extremes on both sides. In a letter to a friend. [By Richard WILLIS, D.D.]

London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 34. b. t.*

: number IX. Containing some considerations about the danger of going to plays. In a letter to a friend. [By Richard WILLIS.]

London, 1698. Quarto. Pp. 23.*

Vol. III. Numb. XI. An essay to prevent uncharitable contentions about the doctrine of the Trinity. [By Moses LOWMAN.]

London: MDCCXIX. Octavo. Pp. 34.* OCCASIONAL poems. By William Hammond, Esq., first printed 1655. [Edited by Sir Samuel Egerton BRYDGES.]

London: 1816. Quarto. [W] The Dedication is signed S. E. B. OCCASIONAL poems: prefixed by a few words on metrical composition. By J. S. [Joseph SYKES, A.M.] April, 1865.

Brighton 1865. Octavo. Pp. 20.* [Bodl.]

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OCCASIONAL (the) preacher, No. 1. Of forsaking profane and vicious company. A sermon [New Year], Prov. 9. 6. [By Samuel WRIGHT, D.D.]

London: 1741. Octavo. [Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.] OCCASIONAL queries concerning the true state of things in these our times. [By Henry STUBBE, or STUBBES.] London: 1659. [Watt, Bib. Brit.] OCCASIONAL reflections upon several subjects. Whereto is premis'd a discourse about such kind of thoughts. [By Hon. Robert BOYLE.] The second edition.

London, 1669. Octavo. Pp. 34. b. t. 413.
9.*
Dedication signed R. B.

OCCASIONAL remarks addressed to

N. B. Halhed, Esq. in answer to his late pamphlet intitled, A calculation of the commencement of the Millenium &c. With cursory observations on that gentleman's speech in the House of Commons, respecting the pretended prophecies of Richard Brothers. By George Horne, D.D. [pseud. of Walley Chamberlaine OULTON] author of Sound argument, &c.

1795. Octavo. [Biog. Dram. Mon. Rev., xvii. 103.]

OCCASIONAL remarks upon some late strictures on the Confessional: particularly in a pamphlet [by Thomas Townson], intituled, "Doubts concerning the authenticity of the last publication of the Confessional, &c." [By Francis BLACKBURNE.]

London, MDCCLXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 59.*

- part II. Containing chiefly remarks on the first of three letters to the author of that work; and an examination of Dr. Maclaine's defence of Archbishop Wake, in the third appendix of a supplement to the quarto edition of Dr. Mosheim's Ecclesiastical history. Addressed to a respectable layman. [By Francis BLACKBURNE.] London, 1769. Octavo. OCCASIONAL sermons upon the following subjects: The office and duty of Bishops. Error and ignorance dispelled by the appearance of the Messiah. The incarnation of Christ matter of the highest joy. The inefficiency of external professions. On the same. Inequality of condition

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dence of God the sole guide of human affairs. Pernicious effects of evil company. Care of the poor recommended, especially of lying-in women. A religious life the source of true pleasure. Charity illustrated and recommended, from the life of Moses. Also Oratio in funere, &c. Written by a late eminent divine of the Church of England, [John LAWSON, B.D. Lecturer in oratory and history, Trinity College, Dublin.]

London: M.DCC. LXIV. Octavo. Pp. viii. 352.*

OCCASIONAL thoughts in reference to a virtuous or christian life. [By Dame Dameris MARSAM.]

London, 1705. Duodecimo. Pp. v. 282. OCCASIONAL thoughts on the present German war. By the author of Considerations on the same subject. [Israel MAUDUIT.] The third edition. London: M,DCC, LXI. Octavo.*

OCCASIONAL thoughts on the study and character of classical authors, on the course of literature, and the present plan of a learned education, with some incidental comparisons between Homer and Ossian. [By John GORDON, D.D., archdeacon of Lincoln and rector of Henstead, Suffolk.]

1762. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1738. Mon. Rev., xxvii. 135. European Mag., xxiii. 80.]

OCCASIONAL verses: to which are added, extracts from letters, &c., &c. By Sophia Baillie, née Denman. [Edited by her sister-in-law Joanna BAILLIE.]

London printed, not published. 1846. Duodecimo. Pp. 86. [W., Martin's Cat.] OCCASIONAL (the) writer. Numb. I. [By Henry St JOHN, Viscount Bolingbroke.] With an answer paragraph by paragraph.

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No. II. To the same. [By Henry St JOHN, Viscount Bolingbroke.]

London: M.DCC.XXVII. Octavo. Pp. 50. b. t.*

No. III. To the same. [By Henry St JOHN, Viscount Bolingbroke.]

London: : M.DCC.XXVII. Octavo. Pp. 31.* Published in A collection of political tracts. By the author of the Dissertation upon parties. London, 1775.

OCCASIONAL (the) writer: containing

an answer to the second manifesto of the Pretender's eldest son: which bears date at the palace of Holyrood-House, the 10th of October, 1745. Containing reflections, political and historical, upon the last revolution, and the progress of the present rebellion in Scotland. [By William GRANT, Lord Prestongrange.]

London: 1745. Octavo. Pp. 54. b. t.* [D. Laing.]

Ascribed also to Thomas Hollis. OCCULT physick, or the three principles in nature anatomized by a philosophical opperation, taken from experience, in three books; the first of beasts, trees, herbs and their magical and physical vertues; the second book containeth most excellent and rare medicines for all diseases happening to the bodies of both men and women, which never yet saw the light; an incomparable piece; the third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments, and the mystery of the quaternary and quinary number opened, with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in a planetary hour both day and night, with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendant, fitted for magical uses, as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses; whereunto is added a necessary tract, shewing how to judge of a disease by the affliction of the moon, upon the sight of the patients urine, with an example, also you are taught how to erect a figure of heaven for any time given. By W. W. [William WILLIAMS], philosophus, student in the cœlestial

sciences.

London: 1660. Octavo. 4 leaves, pp. 160. [W.]

"The Epistle dedicatory" subscribed "Will. Will."

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The printed title bears the date, 1821. OCTAVIUS: a dialogue. By Marcus Minucius Felix. [Translated, with notes, by Sir David DALRYMPLE, Lord Hailes.]

Edinburgh: MDCCLXXXI. Octavo.* [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

OCULIST (the). A dramatic entertainment of two acts. [By Phanuel BACON.] London; MDCCLVII. Octavo.*

OCULUS Britanniæ: an heroi-panegyrical poem on the university of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful similes, and useful digressions. [By Nicholas AMHERST.]

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appeared in the Methodist Magazine for April, 1841, entitled, "Ungodly associations exposed." By a Wesleyan. [T. E. HORWELL.]

London 1841. Octavo. Pp. 8.* [Bodl.] ODD neighbours. By the author of "Lord Lynn's wife." [John Berwick HARWOOD.] In three volumes. London: 1865. Octavo.*

ODD showers: or, an explanation of the rain of insects, fishes, and lizards; soot, sand, and ashes; red rain and snow; meteoric stones; and other bodies. By Carribber. [Sir George Duncan GIBB, Bart.] Intended chiefly for young persons.

London 1870. Duodecimo. Pp. 43.* ODD sketches, by the author of "Poetical aspirations." [William ANDERSON.] Edinburgh: MDCCCXXXI. Duodecimo. Pp. vi. 172.

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London: 1827. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 381.*

ODDITIES and outlines. By E. M. [E. MANGIN.] In two volumes.

1807. Octavo. [Biog. Dict., 1816.] ODDS and ends, done up in parcels to suit all readers. [By W. MASKELL.] Published under the direction of the Committee of general literature and education appointed by the Society for promoting Christian knowledge.

London: N. D. Octavo. Pp. viii. 184.*
[Biog. Dict., 1816. Adv. Lib.]
Preface signed M. C.

ODDS and ends from an old drawer.
By Werdna Retnyw, M.D. [Andrew
WYNTER.] Illustrated by McConnell.
London and New York. 1855. Octavo.
Pp. 120.*

ODE (an). [By Soame JENYNS.]

London: M. DCC.LXXX. Quarto. Pp. 16.* ODE (an) addressed to the Savoir Vivre Club. [By Elijah FENTON.]

London N. D. Quarto. Pp. 16. b. t.* [Bodl.]

ODE by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their supposed approaching nuptials. [By James BosSWELL.] London: MDCCLXXXIV. Quarto. Pp. 16.*

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