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In The Complete Confectioner

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Hannah Glasse

The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…

Familiar Letters

In The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2

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Various

This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…

Ireland and Magna Charta — Colonies and British Constitution — Reciprocal Confi…

In Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …

English Animals In Snow

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 101

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Charles John Cornish

"Of all effects of weather, snow makes the greatest change in animal economy in the countryside, and weeks often pass before the old or…

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