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A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
Aesop.Reference: 39774i- Books
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A sincere christian and convert from the Church of Rome, exemplified in the life of Daniel Herly, a poor Irish peasant. By the Most Reverend Dr. Edward Synge, Late Lord Archbishop of Tuam, in Ireland.
Synge, Edward, 1659-1741.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A sincere Christian and convert from the Church of Rome, exemplified in the life of Daniel Herly, a poor Irish peasant. By the most Reverend Dr. Edward Synge Late Lord Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland.
Synge, Edward, 1659-1741.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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A sincere Christian and convert from the Church of Rome, exemplified in the life of Daniel Herly, a poor Irish peasant. By the Most Reverend Dr. Edward Synge, Late Lord Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland.
Synge, Edward, 1659-1741.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Pictures
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A pregnant woman receives an abortifacient draught from a peasant "wise woman"; she falls ill but the physician cannot save her life; her funeral is attended by her family and neighbours. Colour lithograph by S. I︠a︡guzhinskiĭ, 1925.
I︠A︡guzhinskiĭ, S.Date: [1925?]Reference: 668010i- E-books
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A new delightful ballad called, Debauchery scared; or, The beggar wench turn'd into a devil, together with the pollicy of bumpkin; giving a peasant account of commical passages between a country gentleman, and a London beggar-wench. Tune of, Ladies of Lon
Date: 1687- Pictures
A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 35486i- Pictures
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A fox is facing a wolf outside its lair surrounded by its prey while in the background a fox is chased by two dogs towards a peasant with a cudgel. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
Aesop.Reference: 39677i- E-books
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Britain's glory, and England's bravery wherein is shewed the degrees of honour from the prince to the peasant, with the honour of the nobles, and previleges of the commons, the proper places and precedency of all persons from the throne to the bondman, mo
Date: 1689- Books
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The Golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts. Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant: and will afford both profit and delight. Part the first[-third].
Date: 1793- Pictures
A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
Destouches, Paul-Emile, 1794-1874.Date: March 1st 1832Reference: 27191i- Books
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French peasants in revolt : the insurrection of 1851 / by Ted W. Margadant.
Margadant, Ted W., 1941-Date: [1979], ©1979- Books
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The follies of a day; or, The marriage of figaro. A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. From the French of M. De Beaumarchais. By Thomas Holcroft. Author of duplicity, a comedy, the noble peasant, an opera, &c.
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Pictures
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Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
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The power of everyday politics : how Vietnamese peasants transformed national policy / Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet.
Kerkvliet, Benedict JDate: 2005- Pictures
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Two peasants sit at a table as a third man vomits on the floor. Etching by D. Deuchar, c. 1784, after A. van Ostade (?).
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1784Reference: 26300i- Pictures
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Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.
Holl, William, 1807-1871.Date: [1843]Reference: 39067i- Books
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The Golden cabinet: Or, The world's jewel. Being a shilling profitably exchang'd, for a valuable instructer, in such branches of useful knowledge, that nearly concern all kinds of people, from the peer to the peasant, and renders the whole a complete school of arts, that leads to profit and delight.
Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]- Books
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Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 / Allen Isaacman.
Isaacman, Allen FDate: [1996], ©1996- Books
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Monstrous good songs toasts & sentiments. 1799. Containing, all the most favourite songs, duets, medleys, catches, and glees, from the new dramatic pieces of Blue beard, Cambro Britons, Castle spectre, Stranger, Reformed in time, Shipwreck, Raft, Bantry Bay, Trip to the Nore, Harlequin Highlander, Harlequin Quixotte, Love at Botany Bay, British peasant, Round tower, Welch heiress, False and true, Britons brave Tars, &c. &c. With the jolly toast master's companion.
Date: [1799]- Pictures
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Two peasants sit at a table as a third man vomits on the floor. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade (?).
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1784Reference: 26301i- Books
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An essay on British cottage architecture: Being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance. Supported by fourteen designs, with their technography, or plans, laid down to scale; comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentleman; with various observations thereon: the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in Aqua-Tinta. By James Malton.
Malton, James, -1803.Date: M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]- Pictures
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Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Reference: 26303i- Pictures
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Two agricultural workers conversing. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34897i- Books
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The Pasha's peasants : land, society, and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858 / Kenneth M. Cuno.
Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-Date: 1992