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  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.
  • A young woman with a broken pillar; representing fortitude. Etching, 16--.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • God and his angels sit in judgment; they divide humanity into the elect and the damned. Mezzotint by J. Stephenson after J. Martin.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
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Works

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    Europe today : patenting genetic material.

    | Date: 1998
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    Human cloning.

    | Date: 1997
  • view The origin and development of the moral ideas / by Edward Westermarck.
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    The origin and development of the moral ideas / by Edward Westermarck.

    Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939 | Date: 1906-1908
  • view Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall.
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    Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall.

    McDougall, William, 1871-1938 | Date: 1924
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    Thoughts moral and divine; collected and intended for the better instruction and conduct of life. Dedicated by Permission To the Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, by Wellins Calcott, gent.

    Calcott, Wellins. | Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]
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