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- To Cyrus, the grandson of Astyages (1762)
- Essay on Being (1763–64)
- On Diligence in Several Learned Languages (1764)
- Treatise on the Ode (1764)
- How Philosophy can become more Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People (1765)
- Fragments on Recent German Literature (1767–68)
- On Thomas Abbt's writings (1768)
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- Oldest Document of the Human Race (1774–76)
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- On the Resemblance of Medieval English and German Poetry (1777)
- Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream (1778)
- On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (1778)
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- Terpsichore (1795-6) (translations & commentary of the Latin poet, Jakob Balde)
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