Stories
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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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?
Catalogue
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The speech of Boissy D'Anglas, in the French convention. On Pluviose 11th. And adopted as the declaration and sentiments of the French people on the conditions of peace.
France. Convention nationale.Date: 1795]- Books
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Oeuvres de Mr. Necker, contenant Compte rendu au roi. - Mémoire sur l'établissement des administrations provinciales. - De l'administration des finances de la France.
Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.Date: M. DCC. LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Considerations on the Annual Million Bill, and on the real and imaginary properties of a sinking fund.
Burney, James, 1750-1821.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
L'electricité médicale dans la France des Lumières / François Zanetti.
Zanetti, FrançoisDate: 2017- Books
An Iranian town in transition : a social and economic history of the elites of Tabriz, 1747-1848 / Christoph Werner.
Werner, Christoph, 1967-Date: 2000