Publications of William Thornton

Author

  • Thornton, William. The counterpoise. Being thoughts on a militia and a standing army. By W------ T-----, Esq;. London : printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCLII. [1752]. ESTC No. T63512. Grub Street ID 288768.
  • Thornton, William. The counterpoise, being thoughts on a militia and a standing army. By W---- T----, Esq; The second edition, with large improvements. To which are added. an abstract of the Acts of Parliament now in force relating to the militia, and two speeches in the H- of C- in favour of a Bill for rendering them more useful. London : printed for John Swan, near Northumberland-House, Charing-Cross, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. T75370. Grub Street ID 298100.
  • Thornton, William. Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. [One line in Latin from Horace] With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak. By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Natural Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, No. 22 Market Street, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. W41523. Grub Street ID 351342.
  • Thornton, William. Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. [One line in Latin from Horace] With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak. By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. W28962. Grub Street ID 339175.