The English historical library, or, A short view and character of most of the writers now extant, either in print or manuscript which may be serviceable to the undertakers of a general history of this kingdom / by William Nicholson ...

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THE Universal English Dictionary,

Explaining the Sense and Etymology of all English Words; with Select Phrases, shewing the Force, Significancy, Construction, and different Acceptations of every Word, the native and borrow'd Graces, and all the remarkable Pe∣culiarities of the English Idiom. And in particular, contain∣ing an Explanatory Account of all difficult and unusual Words, whether such as are obsolete or not yet universally receiv'd: With a full and distinct Interpretation of the Terms, Phrases and Expressions us'd in all Sciences and Arts, as in Divinity, Logic, Metaphysic, Natural and Moral Phi∣losophy, Medicine, Anatomy, Pharmacy, Chymistry, Surgery, and the Natural History of Animals, Plants and Minerals. The Terms of the Law, Statute, Common, Canon, Civil, Feudal and Municipal. The Terms used by Mathematicians in A∣rithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, the Doctrine of Conic Sections and other Curve Lines, Trigonometry Plain and Spherical, Optics, Dioptrics, Catoptrics and Perspective, Astronomy, A∣strology, Dialing, Surveying, Gauging, Measuring, &c. Mu∣sic Theoretical and Practical, with the Names of the Instru∣ments. The Terms and Expressions used in the Arts of Grammar, Rhetoric and Poetry; Painting, Sculpture, Print∣ing;

Architecture, Fortification and Gunnery; the Art of War, at Land and at Sea; Naval Terms, the Names of the Parts and Furniture of a Ship, and of all sorts of Arms and Military Engines. The proper Words and Phrases of Mer∣chants, Husbandmen, Gardiners, and most sorts of Trades∣men; and the Terms that belong to Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling and Fishing. The Names of Exotic Pro∣ductions of Nature and Art mention'd in the Relations of Travellers; with a particular Description of the Coins, Weights and Measures, us'd both at home and abroad. The whole digested into an Alphabetical and the most natural Order, the Derivatives and Compounds being ranked after the Primitives; and enrich'd with many Thousands of Words that were never inserted in any other Dictionary. Illustrated with Figures curiously Engraven on Copper Plates, representing all the parts of a Human Body, of a Horse, Ship, Fort, and several other things that cannot be well un∣derstood without such a Help to the Imagination, par∣ticularly Geometrical Figures, &c. To which is added, a Collection of the Words and Phrases that are peculiar to the several Counties of England.

Some of the Parts done, and the whole revis'd by J. Mitchel M. D.

A larger and more particular Account of the Design and Method of this Great and Usefull Work, with a Specimen, will be speedily publish'd.