Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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The moral characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek, with notes. To which is prefix'd A critical essay on characteristic-writings. By Henry Gally. M. A. Lecturer of St. Paul's Covent-Garden, and Rector of Wanden in Buckinghamshire.
Theophrastus.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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Micro-cosmography; or, a piece of the world characterized; in essays and characters.
Earle, John, 1600 or 1601-1665.Date: [1786]- Books
The characters of Theophrastus : with a strictly literal translation of the Greek into Latin, and with notes and observations on the text, in English: for the benefit of Hertford college / By the late R. Newton.
Theophrastus.Date: 1754- Books
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Microcosmography: or, a piece of the world discover'd. In essays and characters.
Earle, John, 1600 or 1601-1665.Date: Anno Domini M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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Eight vignettes of characters of both sexes. Pen and ink drawing by W.L., 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 3873i