Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- J

Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

• Absence

James, Elinor

• Mrs James's Vindication of the Church of England (1687) (Emory)

Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

• Declaration of Independence (1776) (UCSB)
• First Inaugural Address (1801) (FreedomShrine)
• Notes on the State of Virginia (Virginia)
• A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Virginia)
• An Act Establishing the University (Virginia)
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to W. W. Woodward (1810) (Virginia)
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Thomas (1817) (Virginia)
• Report of the Commissioners for the University (Virginia)
• Autobiography (1821) (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Jefferson Bible
• Thomas Jefferson, A Manual of Parliamentary Practice (1812) (Constitution.org)

Johns, John (fl. 1828)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Johnson, Richard (1753-1827)

• An Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, Established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island (1794) (SETIS)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

• Idler, no. 60 (9 June 1759) (Jack Lynch, Penn)
• Idler, no. 61 (16 June 1759) (Jack Lynch, Penn)
• Rasselas (1759) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Rasselas (1759) (In Parentheses) -- Adobe Acrobat format, with illustrations.
• London (1738) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Prologue at Drury Lane (1747) (Florida)
• Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick (1747) (Toronto)
• Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Vanity of Human Wishes (2nd ed., 1755) (Jack Lynch, Penn)
• An Account of the Harleian Library (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Plan of an English Dictionary (1747) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Preface to the Dictionary (1755) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Life of Ascham (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Life of Browne (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Life of Pope (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- Full text and an abridgment.
• Review of Jonas Hanway's Journal of Eight Days' Journey (1757) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Lives of the Poets:
  • The Life of Savage (see also my slightly abridged teaching edition)
  • The Life of Collins (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • The Life of Gray (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney (1842) (Virginia)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Review of Soame Jenyns (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Rambler and the Adventurer (selections) (Virginia)
• Selections from The Rambler (1750-1752) (Virginia)
• Preface to Shakespeare (1765) (Toronto)
• Selected criticism on Hamlet (1765) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Excerpt from "Notes on Shakespeare" (1765) (Berkeley)
• A Short Song of Congratulation (WWU)
• On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• One-and-Twenty
• On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic
• A Voyage to Abyssinia (by Jerome Lobo, tr. Samuel Johnson) (Gutenberg)
• Letter to Chesterfield, 7 February 1755 (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Gutenberg)
• Prologue Spoken at Drury-Lane (Poetry Archives)
• Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745) (Clark Holloway)
• Proposals for Printing, by Subscription the Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare (1756) (Clark Holloway)
• Preface to Shakespeare (Clark Holloway)

Johnston, Charles (1791-1823)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

• Sacontala (1789)
• Epigram

Joplin, Thomas

• An Essay on Money & Bullion (1718) (McMaster)

Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685)

• Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant

Joubert, Joseph

• Pensées, essais, maximes et correspondance de J. Joubert; et précédés d'une notice sur sa vie, son caractère et ses travaux (BNF) -- Requires frames.