Duncombe, John, 1729-1786
John Duncombe British writer and clergyman
Duncombe, John
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Works
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Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. | |
The civil war between the Israelites and Benjamites illustrated and applied in a sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Andrew, in the city of Canterbury : On Friday, February 27, 1778, Being the Day appointed by his Majesty's Royal Proclamation to be observed as a Day of solemn Fasting and Humiliation | |
Elegy written in a country churchyard | |
An elegy, written in Canterbury Cathedral. By John Duncombe, M.A. one of the six preachers. | |
An evening contemplation in a college, 1753: | |
Feminiad | |
Fishing; | |
Des Grafen v. Corke u. Orrery Briefe aus Italien | |
Historical memoirs of the life and writings of the late Rev. William Dodd, L.L.D. From his Entrance at Clare-Hall, Cambridge, In 1745, To his fatal Exit at Tyburn, June 27, 1777 | |
The history and antiquities of the two parishes of Reculver and Herne, in the county of Kent : By John Duncombe, M.A. Vicar of Herne. Enlarged by subsequent communications. | |
A lecture on education : Humbly inscribed to parents and guardians; and such other persons who are, or may be concerned in the tuition of youth. By J. Duncombe, master of an academy near Wrexham; author of the new arithmetical dictionary; inventor of the dendrometer; and of the geometrical construction of the Roman-print capitals. | |
Letters from an English traveller | |
Letters from Italy in the years 1754 and 1755 | |
Lettres d'un voyageur anglois. | |
A new arithmetical dictionary, : or the accomptant's compleat assistant; Compleat Assistant; Wherein Not only the Terms made Use of in that Art are carefully collected and fully explained, but also The Art itself is largely treated of; with General Rules for its Application to Business. The Whole being a Compleat System of Integral and Fractional Arithmetic; chiefly designed for the use of schools. By John Duncombe, Inventor of the Dendrometer, and Mathematical Master at Mr. Crawford's Academy at Chiswick | |
Oeuvres choisies | |
A parody on Gray's elegy. By an Oxonian. | |
Poems : I. The prophecy of Neptune. II. On the death of the Prince of Wales. III. Ode presented to the Duke of Newcastle at Cambridge. IV. Ode to the Hon. J. Y. By John Duncombe, M. A. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. | |
A select collection of original letters : written by the most eminent persons, on various entertaining subjects, and on many important occasions: from the reign of Henry the eighth, to the present time. | |
Select works of the Emperor Julian, and some pieces of the sophist Libanius. The history of the Emperor Jovian, from the French of the abbé de La Bleterie, translated from the Greek With notes from Petau, La Bleterie, Gibbon, &c. To which is added. By John Duncombe... In two volumes. | |
A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Anne, Westminster : on Thursday, November 29, 1759: being The Day appointed by Proclamation for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Signal Successes of the present Year | |
Surry triumphant: or the Kentish-Mens defeat : A new ballad; being a parody on Chevy-Chace. | |
Tables of solid measure, : For finding, by Inspection, the quantity of timber in anytree, from Six Inches to Eighty Feet in Length, and from Six Inches to Three Feet in Diameter. Calculated Both according to the exact and common Method of Mensuration, and so contrived as to admit of being farther extended with very little Trouble in the Operation | |
A treatise upon the dendrometer, : a New-Invented Instrument for The more certain and ready Measurement of Standing Timber, by Inspection only: for Facilitating the practical Operations of Engineering, Land-Surveying, Levelling, Mineing, &c. And for Performing mechanically the various Cases of Plane Trigonometry, by a short and familiar Process, without Calculation | |
The works of Horace in English verse. |