The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P002567Title from caption. Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates. Years of publication from dates of issues. Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating. Imprints vary somewhat; later booksellers' names include: T. Griffiths, J. Roberts, W. Chetwood, A. Dodd, and J. Peele. Most numbers have classical quotation below title. Price appears at foot of first column of text. Printed in two columns on folio half-sheet; text begins with factotum initial. Essays on philosophy, morals, politics, health, classical literature--no. 339 being a translation of Pindar's 'First Olympionique' or Ode to the hero of Syracuse. Includes a series of miscellanies and another meditations on the evils of drink.London [England]: printed for W. Wilkins at the Post-House under Will's Coffee-house, Covent-Garden; and sold by W. Graves, at the Black Spread Eagle in Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Graves in St. James's Street; where letters and advertisements are taken in, [1718-1721]. 350 v.; sm. 2°