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RecID: 295 |
1748 |
Montesquieu, De l'esprit des lois. |
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RecID: 296 |
1748 |
Mary Leapor, Poems (vol. 1).
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RecID: 297 |
1748 |
Robert Dodsley, ed., Collections of
Poems (1748-1758). |
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RecID: 298 |
1749 |
French candidate for Nawab of Madras succeeds after Palace revolution, giving Madras back
to the French. |
*India
*France |
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RecID: 299 |
1749 |
David Hartley, Observations on Man. |
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RecID: 300 |
1749 |
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones. |
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RecID: 301 |
1749 |
Samuel Johnson, Irene and "Vanity of Human Wishes." |
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RecID: 302 |
1749 |
Bolingbroke, Idea of a Patriot King. |
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RecID: 303 |
1749 |
Denis Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles. |
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RecID: 304 |
1749 |
Sarah Fielding, The Governess. |
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RecID: 305 |
1749 |
Sarah Fielding anonymously defends Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. (See 1747). |
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RecID: 306 |
1749 |
Monthly Review begins publication. |
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RecID: 307 |
1750 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts. |
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RecID: 308 |
1750 |
Samuel Johnson begins publishing his periodical The Rambler (1750-52). |
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RecID: 309 |
1751 |
William Hogarth, Beer Street and Gin Lane engraved from drawings in 1750/51. |
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RecID: 310 |
1751 |
British forces led by Robert Clive defeat the French puppet at Arcot and Britain retrieves
the Carnatic (Madras). |
*India
*France |
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RecID: 311 |
1751 |
Sophia and "a gentleman," Beauty's Triumph, or the Superiority of the Fair Sex Invincibly
Proved (see 1739 and 1740). |
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RecID: 312 |
1751 |
Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless in 4 vols., reprinted 1765, 1768, 1783. |
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RecID: 313 |
1751 |
Mary Leapor, Poems (Vol. 2). |
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RecID: 314 |
1751 |
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. |
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RecID: 315 |
1751 |
D'Alembert, Diderot, et al., Encyclopédie (1751-66). |
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RecID: 316 |
1752 |
Rousseau, Devin du village (comic opera). |
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RecID: 317 |
1752 |
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote. |
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RecID: 318 |
1753 |
William Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty. |
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RecID: 320 |
1753 |
Samuel Richardson and Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art. |
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