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A Full and true account of the birth, life, and death, of Judas Iscariot, who was the son of Simon, and of the tribe and lineage of Benjamin. Shewing how his mother was foretold by a dream that she should bear a son that would betray the saviour of the world; how his father thought to prevent it, by putting him in a small boat and committing him to the seas; how he was found by some fishermen that belonged to the Island of Iseariot: how a Prince brought him up, and made him his son's companion; how he treacherously drowned the prince's son, and for fear of discovery fled to the land of Canaan, where he killed his own father and married his mother; afterwards betrayed our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; last of all, how be hanged himself, and his bowels gushed out.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Poems. A description of a shepherd; his going to sea and through various Scenes of Distress; being taken Prisoner and obliged to ransom his Vessel to save the Lives of his Crew. With observations on the town of Liverpool, Coming in from Sea. Description of his remarkable escape from shipwreck in the October gale, 1789, When One Hundred Sail of Shipping were cast away near Yarmouth Roads, and more than One Thousand Men were drowned. by Edward Anderson, many Years Master of the Jemima, in the Lisbon Trade.
Anderson, Edward, active 18th century.Date: [1800?]- Books
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By authority, new-invented Cork Jacket, for prevention of drowning. The great advantage these jackets have over every thing of the kind ever attempted before, has occasioned them to be greatly approved and strongly recommended, by a number of gentlemen of the navy, as an article that no person should go to sea without, who wishes for their preservarion: they have this very great superiority over all others, that they may be worn with the greatest ease at sea, for any length of time, without incommonding the wearer the least in his business in the ship; and will be found of the greatest utility when a ship is lost near ship is lost near shore, as any person in them, though they cannot swim, may convey themselves safe to land ...
Bell's Cork-jacket Warehouse (London, England)Date: [1790?]- Books
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Self-Murder asserted to be a very heinous crime; in opposition to all arguments brought by the Deists, to the contrary. To which is added, a prodigy of providence, containing, the wonderful preservation of a woman of Totnes, who endeavour'd, Jan. 25. 1707. to drown herself by leaping over the bridge, near 20 foot high, into the river running by that town. A Story well attested, yet hardly to be parallell'd in History. With many necessary Instructions how to avoid a Sin of this Nature. By John Prince, M. A. Vicar of Berry-Pomeroy, in the County of Devon.
Prince, John, 1643-1723.Date: 1709- Books
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The Isle of Pines: or, A late discovery of a fourth island in Terra Australis Incognita. Being a true relation of certain English persons, who, in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wrecked, upon the island near to the coast of Terra Australis Incognita, and all drowned, except one man and four women, whereof one was a Negro. And now lately, An. Dom. 1667. a Dutch ship, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole relation follows, written and left by the man himself, a little before his death, and declared to the Dutch by his grandchild. Licensed, June 27. 1668.
Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.Date: Printed in the year M,DC,LXVIII. [1668 i.e. ca. 1750]- Books
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Petition for putting an immediate stop to a succession of horrid murders, by stabbing, poison, &c. perpetrated by men of high rank and immense influence, and their accomplices, in Scotland. And for such protection to the life and estate of Robert Brisbane, of Milton, against the Right Honourable the Earl of Hyndford, as in adequate to the seven most extraordinary deaths, by poison, stabbing, drowning, &c. in the family and near connections of the Earl of Hyndford, who has, with unparalled cruelty, formed a regular conspiracy to rob the petitioner of his whole property, and made repeated assaults, with an intention to assassinate him, and for redress and reparations, &c. Unto the most noble and Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, the petition of Robert Brisbane, of Milton, ...
Brisbane, Robert.Date: 1799]- Archives and manuscripts
Herapath, Thornton John (1830-1858)
Herapath, Thornton John, 1830-1858Date: mid 19th centuryReference: MS.8558- Books
Turning : a swimming memoir / Jessica J. Lee.
Lee, Jessica J., 1986-Date: 2017- Pictures
Masjid (mosque).
Chow, CalvinDate: 2019Reference: 3321157iPart of: Blindness of the sea.- Pictures
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The life of the Buddha Śākyamuni. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47094i- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
Date: 1800-1985Reference: WA/HSW- Pictures
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People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1834Reference: 37253i