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• An argument, shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government and absolutely destructive to the constitution of the English monarchy (London : [s.n.], 1697), by John Trenchard, Walter Moyle, and Samuel Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes, demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness, and prodigall expensivenes of all standing English forts and garrisons, to the people of England: their inability to protect them from invasions, depredations of enemies or pyrates by sea or land: the great mischiefs, pressures, inconveniences they draw upon the inhabitants, country, and adjacent places in times of open wars, when pretended most usefull: and the grand oversight, mistake, injury in continuing them for the present or furure [sic] reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the only ends pretended for them. / Penned by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire, during his close imprisonment in Pendennis Castle. And now published for the common benefit, ease, information of the whole nation. (London, : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour, 1657 [i.e. 1656]), by William Prynne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from the author of the Argument against a standing army to the author of the Balancing letter (London : [s.n.], 1697), by John Trenchard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Case of a standing army army [sic] fairly and impartially stated in answer to the late History of standing armies in England, and other pamphlets on that subject. (London : [s.n.], 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from a gentleman at London to his friend at Edinburgh ([London? : s.n., 1700]), by Gentleman at London (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• May it please your Lordship, having formerly discourst amongst the crowd of arguments which have been vented since the knowledg of the peace; ... ([London : s.n., 1690]), by Thomas Orme (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• "No Standing Armies!": The Antiarmy Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lois G. Schwoerer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Die Rettung der Gesellschaft aus den Gefahren der Militärherrschaft. Eine Untersuchung auf geschichtlicher und statistischer Grundlage über die finanziellen und volkswirthschaftlichen, die politischen und socialen Einflüsse des Heerwesens. (F. A. Brockhaus, 1859), by Wilhelm Schulz (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la guerre et des armées permanentes (M. Lévy, 1870), by Patrice Larroque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ce que l'armée peut être pour la nation (Misch & Thron; [etc., etc.], 1907), by Arthur Fastrez (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nation trained in arms or a militia? Lessons in war from the past and the present (Constable & company ltd., 1918), by Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freytag-Loringhoven (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nation trained in arms or a militia? Lessons in war from the past and the present (Putnam's sons, 1918), by Hugo Freytag-Loringhoven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second address of the Central Committee of Fauquier, to the people of that county, on the army bill. (Printed at the Madisonian Office, 1840), by Whig Party (U.S.). Virginia. Fauquier County and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sugli eserciti permanenti; studio. ([Coi tipi dei] successori Le Monnier, 1871), by Enea Cavalieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la guerre et des armées permanentes (A Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & ce, 1864), by Patrice Larroque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stehendes Heer und Volkswehr; ein Beitrag zu der Bewaffnungsfrage der Gegenwart von einem deutschen Offizier. (F. Vassermann, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la guerre et des armées permanentes (Guillaumin, 1856), by Patrice Larroque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works, none of which were ever before published. (printed for J. Darby, [etc.], 1726), by Walter Moyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks upon a scurrilous libel; called An argument, shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government, &c. (Printed in the year, 1697) (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-laws, rules and regulations of the Brockville Rifle Company, no. 1, A (s.n.], 1856), by Canada. Canadian Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschultes Volksheer oder Miliz? : Kriegslehren aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1918), by Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freytag-Loringhoven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the act of Parliament commonly called the Boston port-bill : with thoughts on civil society and standing armies (1774), by Josiah Quincy, Randall K. Burkett, and John Sparhawk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ce que l'armée peut être pour la nation (Misch & Thron; [etc., etc.], 1907), by Arthur Fastrez (page images at HathiTrust)
• El soldado. Subsistirá dentro del nuevo régimen democratico de las naciones? (Imprenta del Regto. infantería Ceuta, 60, 1919), by Manuel del Nido y Torres (page images at HathiTrust)
• An argument shewing, that a standing army, with consent of Parliament, is not inconsistent with a free government, &c. (London : Printed for E. Whitlock, 1698), by Daniel Defoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A confutation of a late pamphlet intituled, A letter ballancing the necessity of keeping a land-force in time of peace, with the dangers that may follow on it (London : Printed for A. Baldwin, 1698), by Samuel Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government (London : Printed and sold by E. Whitlock ..., 1698), by John Trenchard and Walter Moyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new answer to an argument against a standing army ([London : s.n., 1697]), by Matthew Prior (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled (London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas ..., 1658), by William Prynne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A (second) dialogue betwixt Jack and Will, about a standing army ([London? : s.n., 1697?]), by George Ridpath (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the annonimus author of the argument against a standing army: ([London? : s.n., 1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter to a foreigner, on the present debates about a standing army (London : Printed for Dan Brown ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An argument shewing, that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government., Part 2 (London : [s.n.], 1697), by Walter Moyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflections on the Short history of standing armies in England, in vindication of His Majesty and government with some animadversions on a paper, entituled, Considerations upon the choice of a speaker. (London : [s.n.], 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remarks upon a scurrilous libel called An argrument, shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government, &c. (London : [s.n.], 1697) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter to A, B, C, D, E, F, &c. concerning their argument about a standing army examining their notions of the supposed Gothick or other ballance, by the constitution and interest of the English monarchy. (London : Printed for D. Brown ..., and R. Smith ..., and sold by E. VVhitlock ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Observations on the act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on civil society and standing armies. / By Josiah Quincy, Jun'r. ; [Twelve lines of quotations] (Boston: N.E. : Printed for and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street,, 1774), by Josiah Quincy (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations on the English language (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1951), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of a Frenchman exiled for his religion (Press of the Pioneers, 1934), by of Dauphiné Durand, Bruce Rogers, Gilbert Chinard, Nicholas Hayward, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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