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Local Descriptions (9:30) Masques (27:06) Of des Maizeaux, and the secret History of Anthony Collins’s Manuscripts (28:30) History of new Words (30:19) The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 1 (33:13) The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 2 (33:40) The Philosophy of Proverbs, part 3 (26:54) Confusion of Words (45:12) Political Nicknames (28:04) The domestic Life of a Poet - Shenstone vindicated (33:31) Secret History of the Building of Blenheim (26:25) Secret History of Sir Walter Rawleigh (39:00) An authentic Narrative of the last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh (22:18) Literary Unions (19:21) Of a Biography Painted (19:33) Cause and Pretext (9:42) Political Forgeries and Fictions (17:01) Expression of suppressed Opinion (40:13) Autographs (11:54) The History of Writing-masters (29:29) The Italian Historians (29:36) Of Palaces built by Ministers (20:21) 'Taxation no Tyranny' (22:40) The Book of Death (20:41) History of the Skeleton of Death (27:29) The Rival Biographers of Heylin (20:18) Of Lenglet du Fresnoy (25:33) The Dictionary of Trevoux (12:28) Quadrio’s Account of English Poetry (17:00) 'Political Religionism' (19:55) Toleration (31:49) Apology for the Parisian Massacre (15:37) Prediction, part 1 (25:35) Prediction, part 2 (33:03) Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy (51:29) On Puck the Commentator (15:03) Literary Forgeries (37:02) Of Literary Filchers (14:40) Of Lord Bacon at Home (21:56) Secret History of the Death of Queen Elizabeth (14:44) James the First as a Father and a Husband (13:36) The Man of one Book (9:49) A Bibliognoste (20:07) Secret History of an elective Monarchy (50:21) Buildings in the Metropolis, and Residence in the Country (23:34) Royal Proclamations (29:05) True Sources of secret History (39:52) Literary Residences (18:34) Whether allowable to ruin oneself? (26:31) Discoveries of secluded Men (16:11) Sentimental Biography (38:39) Literary Parallels (7:08) The Pearl Bibles, and six Thousand Errata (16:22) View of a particular Period of the State of Religion in our Civil Wars (30:50) Buckingham’s political Coquetry with the Puritans (11:46) Sir Edward Coke’s Exceptions against the high Sheriff’s Oath (3:12) Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 1 (38:45) Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 2 (33:26) Secret History of Charles the First and his first Parliaments, part 3 (24:45) The Rump (30:35) Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 1 (31:51) Life and Habits of a literary Antiquary - Oldys and his Manuscripts, part 2 (30:59)
