The Monthly Review (V. 21)

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504

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730 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In the fixth, the author fhews the duty of praihna; God for fignal mercies and deliverances; it was preached in Trinity- Church, New-York, September i7, i758, on occafion of th remarkable fucccft of his rnajefty's arms in America, during that campaign. The appendix contains the three following pieces;?An iarneft Addrefs to the Colonies, particularly thofe of the fou- thern diftricl, on the opening of the campaign, i758;?An Account of the College and Academy of Philadelphia;?and A philofophical Meditation, with a religious Addrefs to the Supreme Being. A Colleflion of the yearly Bill: of Mortality, from i657/9 i758 inchtfrve. Together with fcv;ral other hills of an earlier date, To -which are fubjoir.fd, . Natural and Political Obfervations ' en the Bill; of Mortality. By Capt. John Graunt, F. R. S. reprinted from the fixth edition in i676. II. Another EJfay in political Anthmtic, concerning the growth of the city of London; ." with' the meafures, periods, caufes, and ccnfequences thereof. B% . Sir William Petty, Knt. F. R. S. reprinted from the edition printed at London in i683. III. Obfervations on the pqft Grcnuth and prefent State of the City ef London; reprintc'd] 'from the edition prmted at London in i75i; with a continu atian ff the tables to the end of the year i757. By Corbyri Morris, Efq; F. R. S. IV. A camparative View of the Dif- eafes and Ages, and a Table of the Probabilities of Life, for the l-jl Thirty Years. By ]. P. Efq; F. R. S. 4to. gt. Boards Millar. THE four numbered tracts, which compofe the latter part of this book, having appeared in former editionvi it is foreign to our purpofe to take any notice of them upon this re-publication. What comes under our prcfent cognizance is the collection of bills of mortality; certainly a really, ...

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