These pages are now woefully outdated; I haven't updated the links in yonks. Still I resolved not to take the pages down, since there may still be some useful material in here. Just be prepared to be frustrated.

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- Anonymous or Various Authors

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

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• American Historical Documents:
  • The Annapolis Convention of 1786 (Avalon)
  • Articles of Confederation, 1781 (Avalon)
  • Declaration of Independence (Avalon)
  • The Declaration of Independence (1776) (FreedomShrine)
  • The Treaty of Paris (1783) (FreedomShrine)
  • U.S. Constitution:
    • Founders' Constitution (Univ. of Chicago Press) -- A remarkable annotated edition of the U.S. Constitution, with extensive commentary and contextual material on every clause. O si sic omnes!
    • U.S. Constitution (hypertext at Cornell)
    • The Constitution of the United States (1787) (FreedomShrine)
  • The Bill of Rights (1787) (FreedomShrine)
  • The Northwest Ordinance (1787) (FreedomShrine)
  • The Federalist Papers (Avalon)
  • The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Complete 1692 Salem Witchcraft Papers and Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
  • Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
• The Bijou Gift Book for 1828 (Laura Mandell)
• French Revolutionary Pamphlets (ARTFL)
• Virginia Declaration of Rights (Virginia)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man (Avalon)
• The Second Part of the South Sea Bubble (1721) (Virginia)
• The English Bill of Rights (1689) (Avalon Project)
• The New-England Primer:
  • The New England Primer (1777)
  • The New England Primer (1843)
• The Sorrows of Yamba, or The Negro Woman's Lamentation (Virginia)
• Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey on Slavery (Virginia)
• Peter Bestes and three other slaves, Letter: Boston, April 20th
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Brinton Hammon, a Negro Man
• The Sorrows of Yamba or The Negro Woman's Lamentation (Virginia)
• Acrostics of Self-Inscription by Women Poets of the Romantic Age (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• England's Great Happiness (1677) (McMaster)
• Statement of the Levellers (1649) (WSU)
• Habeas Corpus Act (1679) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
• Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (October 22, 1685) (extracts) (Hanover)
• Parisian Fairground Theatre:
  • Arlequin a la guinguette
  • Circé en postures
  • Jupiter curieux impertinent (1711)
  • La Femme juge et partie (1711)
  • L'Ane de Lucien, ou le Voyageur ridicule (1681)
  • L'Enlèvement de Proserpine (1695)
  • Le Ravissement d'Hélène, le siège et l'embrasement de Troie (1705)
  • Les Amours de Microton (1676)
  • Les Divertissements de la foire (1678)
  • Les Forces de l'Amour et de la Magie (1678)
  • Les Pygmées (1676)
• Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana (1726)
• The Book of Common Prayer (1662 edition)
• Della Cruscan Poems (Michael Gamer) -- Over two dozen short works by the Della Cruscans.
• Marie Therese Charlotte d'Angouleme, M. Clery, and Princess Elisabeth of France, The Ruin of a Princess, tr. Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Penn)
• Dance Manuals:
  • The Dancing Master (10th ed., 1698) (page images at Library of Congress)
  • The Gentleman and Lady's Companion (1798) (page images at Library of Congress)
• The Old Discipline (1806) -- The Quaker Book of Discipline
• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (Bartleby) -- Texts of poems by Butler, Carew, Cleveland, Cowley, Crashaw, Davenant, Donne, Godolphin, Herbert, King, Lovelace, Marvell, Milton, Philips, Quarles, Suckling, Vaughan, Wotton, and others.
• The Vicar of Bray (ed. Russ Hunt)
• The Mysterious Spaniard; or, The Ruins of St. Luke's Abbey: A Romance (1807)
• Instructions to the Officers Appointed to Recruit in New York (1776) (Renascence Editions)
• Parfaict Dictionnaire des Theatres de Paris (1767) (CESAR Project) -- Page images of the complete seven-volume set.
• Complete Newgate Calendar (Texas)
• The Women's Petition against Coffee (1674)