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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — F

This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts on the Net.

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Fanshawe, Anne Harrison, Lady (1625-1680)

• Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe (Gutenberg)

Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608-1666)

• A Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Farquhar, George

• The Beaux-Stratagem (Bibliomania)

Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine

• Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (Gutenberg)

Farrer, James Anson

• Adam Smith: Biographical Sketch (1881) (McMaster)

Felinski, Alojzy

• Boze, cos Polske (1816) — In Polish.

Fell, Margaret (1614-1702)

• The Daughter of Sion Awakened, and Putting on Strength (1677) (Emory)
• A True Testimony from the People of God (1660) (Emory)
• Women's Speaking Justified (1666 or 1667)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715)

• Maxims of the Saints (CCEL)

Ferguson, Adam (1723-1816)

• An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) (McMaster)

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger

• Orchesography:
  • Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition)
  • Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing, tr. John Weaver (second edition, 1715) (page images at Library of Congress)
• A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing (first edition) (page images at Library of Congress)

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814)

• Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urtheile des Publicums über die französische Revolution (1793) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Einige Vorlesungen, über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten (1794) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Über das Wesen des Gelehrten, und seine Erscheinungen im Gebiete der Freiheit (1793) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Über die einzig mögliche Störung der akademischen Freiheit (1794) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Zurückforderung der Denkfreiheit von den Fürsten Europens (1793) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

• Amelia:
  • Amelia (Gutenberg)
  • Jonathan Wild (Gutenberg)
  • Jonathan Wild (Munseys)
• Joseph Andrews:
  • Joseph Andrews (Munseys)
• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon:
  • The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Gutenberg)
  • Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon (Munseys)
• A Journey from This World to the Next:
  • A Journey from This World to the Next (Gutenberg)
  • A Journey from This World to the Next (Munseys)
• The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd (Munseys)
• Shamela:
  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Eserver.org)
  • Tom Jones (Bibliomania)
  • Tom Jones, vol. 1 (Bartleby)
  • Tom Jones, vol. 2 (Bartleby)
  • The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Munseys)

Fielding, Sarah

• The Countess of Dellwyn (Munseys)
• The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (Munseys)
• David Simple:
  • The Adventures of David Simple (Munseys)
  • David Simple, Volume the Last (Munseys)
• The Governess:
  • The Governess (Gutenberg)
  • The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (Munseys)

Finch, Anne

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Several Poems (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Aristomenes, Or, The Royal Shepherd, A Tragedy (Celebration of Women Writers, Penn)
• Miscellany Poems (Celebration of Women Writers, Penn)

Finch, Anne, Viscountess Conway

• The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692) (Celebration of Women Writers)

Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

• The Sad Day (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Flavel, John

• The Fountain of Life Opened Up (1820) (CCEL)
• The Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption (1820) (CCEL)

Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de

• Fables de M. de Florian (1792) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757)

• Eléments de la géométrie de l'infini: suite des "Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences" (1727) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Énée et Lavinie: tragédie [en cinq actes]: représentée pour la première fois par l'Académie royale de musique, le mardi 14 février 1758 (1758) (BNF) — Requires frames. PDF format.
• Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1687):
  • Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1687)
  • Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1687) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1724) (BNF) — Requires frames. PDF format.

Fordyce, David (1711-1751)

• The Elements of Moral Philosophy (1754) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Foscolo, Ugo (1778-1827)

• Dei sepolcri (1807):
  • Dei sepolcri
  • "Dei sepolcri" (1807) (LiberLiber) (in Italian)
• Le grazie (LiberLiber) (in Italian)
• Sonetti:
  • Sonetti
  • Sonetti (LiberLiber) (in Italian)
• Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (LiberLiber) (in Italian)

Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte

• Sintram and His Companions (Gutenberg)
• Undine:
  • Undine (Gutenberg)
  • Undine (Gutenberg)

Fourier, Charles (1772-1837)

• Egarement de la raison démontré par les ridicules des sciences incertaines (1806)
• Tableau analytique du cocuage

Fox, Charles James

• A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second (Gutenberg)

Fox, George (1624-1691)

• Autobiography (CCEL)
• Concerning Revelation, Prophecy, Measure, and Rule (Quaker Writings)

Fraisier, M. J. C

• The Scholars Companion, containing a Choice Collection of Cotillons and Country-Dances (1796) (page images at Library of Congress)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)

• An Address to the Public (Bibliomania)
• Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress (1745) (Bibliomania)
• The Autobiography:
  • The Autobiography (Virginia)
  • Autobiography (Archiving Early America). In fourteen chapters.
  • Autobiography (USHistory.org)
  • Autobiography (Bibliomania)
• An Edict By The King of Prussia (1773) (Bibliomania)
• The Elysian Fields (1780) (Bibliomania)
• Experiments with Balloons (1783) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
• Epitaph (FreedomShrine)
• How to Secure Houses, &c. From Lightning (Bibliomania)
• From Information to Those Who Would Remove to America (1782) (Bibliomania)
• A Receipt to Make a New-England Funeral Elegy (1722) (Bibliomania)
• The Speech of Miss Polly Baker (1747) (Bibliomania)
• The Way to Wealth (1757) (Bibliomania)

Franklin, Elizabeth Anne Porden (1795-1825)

• The Veils; or The Triumph of Constancy (BWRP)

Franqueville, Marianne de la Tour de

• La Vertu vengée par l'amitié (1781)

Frederick the Great

• Eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie (Cosma Shalizi, Michigan)
• Military Instructions (Stanford)

Fréret, Nicolas

• Vues générales sur l'origine des anciennes nations et sur la manière d'en étudier l'histoire (1753)