Query: books from 1779
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Nocturnal Revels
Fables and Parables
Prosodia Rationalis
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Evidence from documents: Nocturnal Revels: '''''Nocturnal Revels''''' is a 1779 two-volume book about prostitution in 18th-century London during the reign of George II.
Fables and Parables: '''''Fables and Parables''''' (''Bajki i przypowieści'', 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity. Krasicki's fables and parables have been described as being, "like Jean de La Fontaine's fables,... amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish.
Prosodia Rationalis: ''''Prosodia Rationalis''''' is the short title of the 1779 expanded second edition of Joshua Steele's ''An Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech, to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols'', originally published in 1775.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: '''''Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion''''' is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779.