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Misers, shrews, and polygamists : sexuality and male-female relations in eighteenth-century Chinese fiction / Keith McMahon.
McMahon, Keith.Date: 1995- Books
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The second part of the history of the London clubs. Particularly, the Farting Club, the No-Nos'd Club, the Misers Club, the Atheistical Club. With a comical relation of the devil in a bear skin.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1720?]- Books
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An essay on death-bed-charity, Exemplify'd in the Life of Mr. Thomas Guy, Late Bookseller in Lombard-Street, Madam Jane Nicholas, Of St. Albans. And Mr. Francis Bancroft, Late of London Draper: Proving that great Misers giving large Donatives to the Poor in their last Wills is no Charity, To which is added the last Will of Mr. Francis Bancroft. Now publish'd as a necessary Appendix to the Hazards of a Death-Bed-Repentance, of which the Tenth Edition was lately Published.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1728- Books
The book of misers : a translation of al-Bukhalāʼ / Abū ʻUthmān ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ.
Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869.Date: 1997- Books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Virtues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, sond Fools, and Wantons: old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the Excellent Vertues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satirical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1737- Books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, incident to all degrees, from the throne to the cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Vertues that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toaping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical Poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. ... . By the author of the London-Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: [1710]- Books
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The pleasures of a single life or, The misers of matrimony[.] By Sir Iohn Dillon, Kt. To which is added The choice or, the pleasures of a country life[.] Dedicated to the beaus against the next vacation,[.]
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: [1760?]- Pictures
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An old miser unlocks his treasure chest and clutches a bag of money. Stipple engraving, 1787.
Date: Sepr.1 1787Reference: 32330i- Pictures
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An old man leans over a table counting the money in his hand as a girl peeps through the door. Etching by T. Sibson.
Sibson, Thomas, 1817-1844.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32317i- Pictures
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Richard Yates in character as the miser Lovegold standing in a room of his London townhouse as a maid enters. Engraving by C. Grignion after T. Parkinson.
Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769-1789.Date: June 29 1776Reference: 32326i- Pictures
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Abu Kassim is burying his slippers in the garden but he has been seen by another man over the fence. Engraving.
Reference: 32321i- Pictures
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A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
Piattoli, Giuseppe, active 1785-1807.Reference: 17941i- Pictures
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Two men exhibiting postures which express their character: on the left a man of 'brutal sensibility', on the right, a miser. Drawing by D.N. Chodowiecki, c. 1789.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: c. 1789Reference: 28695i- Pictures
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A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 43778i- Pictures
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An old man is sitting at a table counting his money as a young couple look at one another over his head. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after L. Löfftz.
Löfftz, Ludwig von, 1845-1910.Date: [1880]Reference: 32343i- Pictures
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A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by J. Gay. Stipple engraving by Balston.
Baldon, active 1799.Date: 1 January 1799Reference: 16027i- Books
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The Strange and unaccountable life of the penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A miserable miser, who died in a sack, though worth upwards of Đ3000. per annum. With singular anecdotes of the famous Jemmy Taylor, the southwark usurer, character well known upon the stock exchange: to which is added, the life of the Rev. G. Harvest; called, the absent man; or, parson and player.
Date: 1798- Pictures
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A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
Meheux, Jacques.Reference: 34902i- Pictures
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Sir Hervey Elwes and his nephew John Elwes: with four episodes in the life of Sir Hervey evincing miserliness. Coloured etching.
Date: [approximately 1825?]Reference: 32323i- Pictures
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The dissection of the body of a miser in the presence of St Anthony of Padua: the miser's heart is found not in his body, but in a casket with his money. Engraving by G. Canuti after Girolamo da Treviso.
Girolamo, da Treviso, 1497-1544.Date: 1838Reference: 24385i- Books
History of the Mississippi State Medical Association, with biographies of its presidents, complete roster of its officers ... and ... laws relating to ... medicine in Mississippi / [Ewing Fox Howard].
Howard, Ewing Fox, 1874-1933.Date: [1910]- Books
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The miser: a farce of three acts, Taken from the Miser of Mr. Fielding.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Archives and manuscripts
Certificates of proficiency, service, merit, etc, issued to Miss Waller by the Red Cross
Date: 1912-1920Reference: GC/93/4Part of: Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy- Books
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The remarkable life of John Elwes Esq. Member in three successive Parliaments, for Berkshire. With singular anecdotes, &c. Written by Captain Topham. Supposed to be the greatest instance of penury, that ever existed.
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]