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Poems. The conflagration : applied to that grand period or catastrophe of our world, when the face of nature is to be changed by a deluge of fire, as formerly it was by that of wat...

by Byles, Mather
Published 1755

and sold by D. Fowle in Ann-Street, and by Z. Fowle in Middlestreet

Subjects: “...Earthquakes / Poetry...”

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Upon the drying up that ancient river, the river Merrymak

by Sewall, Samuel
Published 1721

Printed by Timothy Green?

Subjects: “...Rivers / Connecticut / Poetry...”

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A poem on the late earthquake at Lisbon. To which is added, thoughts in a church-yard

Published 1755

printed for R. and J. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper

Subjects: “...Earthquakes / Poetry / Early works to 1800...”

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Some thoughts occasioned by the late earthquakes. A poem. By Benjamin Stillingfleet

by Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Published 1750

printed for J. Brindley in New Bond-Street, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row

Subjects: “...Earthquakes / Poetry / Early works to 1800...”

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Heliocrene : a poem in Latin and English: on the Chalybeate Well at Sunning Hill in Windsor Forest

by Merrick, John
Published 1725

Excudebat D. Kinnier, typographus Readingensis. Anno Dom

Subjects: “...Hot springs / England / Berkshire / Poetry...”

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A sermon occasioned by the late great earthquake, and the terrors that attended it : Prepared for, and (in part) delivered at a fast in Dorchester, Nov. 7. 1727. And transcribed fo...

by Danforth, John
Published 1728

Printed by Gamaliel Rogers, for John Eliot at the South End

Subjects: “...Danforth, Samuel / 1666-1727 / Poetry...”

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Some rude & indigested thoughts on the terrible majesty of God in the works of nature : particularly in the phaenomena of earthquakes: occasioned by that memorable earthquake Octob...

Published 1730

Printed & sold by Timothy Green

Subjects: “...Earthquakes / Poetry...”

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A true and particular account of the late dreadful earthquake at Lisbon : to which is added A mournful copy of verses on the occasion: also The heads of a sermon by the Reverend Mr...

Published 1756

Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard

Subjects: “...Elegiac poetry, English / Early works to 1800...”

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Lines made after the great earthquake, in 1755, which shook North and South America, with great destruction in Cales, Lisbon, and most of the adjacent kingdoms

Published 1755

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Subjects: “...English poetry / 18th century...”

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A descriptive poem : addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, Some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowth...

by Dalton, John
Published 1755

printed for J. and J. Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall

Subjects: “...Mines and mineral resources / Poetry...”

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The Magnetic Declination : A History of the Compass

by Mandea, Mioara
Published 2022

Springer International Publishing

Table of Contents: “...Some introductory notions -- The poetry and philosophy of the beginnings -- The first attempts...”

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