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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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A sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, May 10, 1753. By Thomas Ashton, M. A. rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and Fellow of Eton College. To which is annexed, a list of the Annual Amount of the Collection for this charity, from the Year 1721.
Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775.Date: [1753]- Books
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A sermon preached at the evening-lecture in the Old Jewry on Sunday, November 18, 1753, on occasion of the death of the late Reverend James Foster, D. D. Who departed this Life, November 5, 1753, In the 56th Year of his Age. By Charles Bulkley.
Bulkley, Charles, 1719-1797.Date: [1753]- Books
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The miscellaneous works in verse and prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with memoirs of his life.
Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The Spiritual treasury, or, Sacred diary, Of the favours, graces, priviledges, and perpetual indulgences, granted by the vicars of Our Lord Jesus Christ on earth to the arch-confraternity of the brethren and sisters of the holy cincture of our glorious parents, St. Augustine, and St. Monica, his pious mother. Instituted by our holy mother, the church, under Pope Eugene IV. in our Church of St. James, at Bologna in Italy, under the invocation and patronage of our blessed lady of consolation; and extended in like manner unto all the other confraternities over the earth thereto duly annexed: faithfully extracted out of the truly golden-bull of Pope Clement X. Beginning with these words, ex injuncto nobis, &c. Translated, compiled, and orderly disposed according to the tenor of the Latin and Italian collections, and latest well-approved editions now extant. By the R.F.J. White, M'K. Or. Er. S.P.N. Aug. S.T.D. First English edition. Dedicated by the compiler to the sacred spouse and mother of God, the B.V.M. Mother of consolation. A work particularly recommended to every Catholick family, having regard to the nouriture and sanctification of their souls.
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An Act for continuing the duties upon salt, and upon red and white herrings, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Great Britain.Date: 1753]