Stories
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Happiness in time
Trying to define happiness is like trying to grasp water: it evades us, constantly changing and becoming evident only in retrospect.
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
Catalogue
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Have you had the influenza? / By the author of "Happiness and misery."
Date: 1837- Books
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Aglaura. A tale. Taken from the French in Marmontel's Moral Tales. By Mr. Trapaud, Author of the Oeconomy of Happiness.
Trapaud, Elisha.Date: [1774]- Books
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The history of Jacobinism, its crimes, cruelties and perfidies, from the commencement of the French Revolution, to the death of Robespierre: Comprising An Inquiry into the Manner of Disseminating, under the Appearance of Philosophy and Virtue, Principles which are equally subversive of Order, Virtue, Religion, Liberty and Happiness. ... . By William Playfair, Author of the Commercial and Political Atlas, &c.
Playfair, William, 1759-1823.Date: 1798- Books
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The worth of a penny: or, a caution to keep money. With the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof. As also how to save it, in our Diet, Apparel, Recreation, &c. And also what honest Courses Men in want may take to Live. By Henry Peacham M. A. Sometime of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Author of The Compleat Gentleman.
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643.Date: 1704- Books
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The worth of a penny: or, A caution to keep money. With the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof. As also how to save it, in our diet, apparel, recreation, &c. And also what honest courses men in want may take to live. By Henry Peacham M.A. sometime of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Author of The compleat gentleman.
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643.Date: 1703