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Modesty girl. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
Ravi Varma, 1848-1906.Reference: 26577i- Books
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Modesty mistaken: or, a letter to Mr. Toland, upon His Declining to Appear In the Ensuing Parliament.
Date: 1702- Books
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Modesty and moderation; or, the true relative duty of the tolerated and establish'd parties in any society of men. Being a sermon preach'd at the assizes at Hertford, on March the 3d, 1711/12. By Edmund Chishull, B. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd at the Request of Mr. High-Sheriff, and others Her Majesties Justices of the Peace for that County.
Chishull, Edmund, 1671-1733.Date: 1712- Books
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The rescue: or, Thespian scourge. Being a critical enquiry into the merit of a poem, intituled, Thespis. With some candid remarks on The Modesty, Good-Nature, and Impartiality of that piece. Written in hudibrastic verse. By John Brownsmith.
Brownsmith, John.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The modest lady's garland. In three parts. Part 1. How a Lady near St. James's was courted by a young Knight, the Lady finding him to be extravagant, and to keep Company with a Harlot, she forsook her Parents for some Time to get rid of him. Part II. The Lady's Policy and Modesty in her Progress. Part III. The Lady's good Fortune to have a kind and loving Husband, which she gained by her Modesty, and pleasing to all her Friends: Concluding with her barbarous Sweetheart's Treachery, and her loving Husband's Honour. Licensed and entered according to Order.
Date: 1770?]- Books
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The lady's present to the fair sex: shewing, the whole duty of woman. Digested under the following heads: curiosity reflection vanity knowledge Reputation Applause Censure Insinuation Affectation Modesty Chastity Complacence Acquaintance Friendship Elegance Fruganty Employment Virginity Marriage Education Authority Widowhood Religion Written by a lady, at the desire of a noble lord.
Lady.Date: [1760?]- Books
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Essays upon several subjects of literature and morality. Particularly Upon the Manner of Writing in single Thoughts. Of Conversation. Of the different Talents of Writing and Speaking. Of the Qualities necessary for Society. Of Criticism upon Works of Wit. Of the Effects of Habit. Of Self-Love and of Modesty. Of Simplicity, and the different Kinds of Modesty. Of the Necessity of following one's Genius. Of Prepossession, and its Effects. Of Good-Humour. Of Judgment and Genius. Of Happiness. Of Reading and Memory. Of Nobility. The Distinction between Pride and Vanity. Of Politeness. Of the Natural. Of Parts. Of Regard to human Judgment. Of Infidelity. Of Riches. With Reflections upon Taste; and many other Curious Topicks. Translated from the French of the Abbot Trublet.
Trublet, Nicolas-Charles-Joseph, 1697-1770.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The whole duty of woman, comprised in the following sections viz. 1. Introduction. 2. Curiosity. 3. Reflection. 4. Vanity. 5. Knowledge. 6. Reputation. 7. Applause. 8. Censure. 9. Insinuation. 10. Affectation. 11. Modesty. 12. Chastity. 13. Complacence. 14. Acquaintance. 15. Friendship. 16. Elegance. 17. Frugality. 18. Employment. 19. Virginity. 20. Marriage. 21. Education. 22. Authority. 23. Widowhood. 24. Religion. By a lady.
Kenrick, W. (William), 1725?-1779.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
Keats, modesty and masturbation / Rachel Schulkins.
Schulkins, RachelDate: 2014- Pictures
Personifications of modesty (left) and liberality. Line engraving by R. Strange, 1755, after Guido Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: [1755]Reference: 2854870i- Books
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The revolutions of modesty. To which is added, the reign of pleasure.
Date: 1757]- Books
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The revolutions of modesty. To which is added, The reign of pleasure.
Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The fifth and last part of Vulgus Britannicus: or, the British Hudibras. In three cantos: On the Kingdom alarm'd. The Practice of the Whiggs. The D---M---l hinted. The Addresses touch'd upon. Some seasonable Reflections on the Factious Party. The Loyalty of the Church. The Intention of their Addresses. The Impatience of the Whiggs and Modesty of the Review. The Whiggish Story of the D---h threatning, the Bank of England. The Whigs Addresses and Purport thereof. Written by the author of the London spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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Thoughts on the times, but chiefly on the profligacy of our women, and it's causes. Addressed to every parent - husband - and modest woman in the three kingdoms. In Two Parts. Shewing First-The Danger of Public Incontinence --- the Absurdity of our Female Education --- the Folly, and Bad Tendency of a Fashionable Life-And the Evils that Arise from French Refinement-And Secondly How Seldom Men-Midwives are Necessary --- that their Practice is Dangerous --- that it is Repugnant to Modesty-Tends to Destroy the Peace of Families, and Endanger Virtue.
Foster, Francis.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Thoughts on the times, but chiefly on the profligacy of our women, and it's causes. Addressed to every parent - husband - and modest woman in the three kingdoms. In Two Parts. Shewing First-The Danger of Public Incontinence --- the Absurdity of Our Female Education --- the Folly, and Bad Tendency of a Fashionable Life-And the Evils that Arise from French Refinement-And Secondly How Seldom Men-Midwives are Necessary --- that their Practice is Dangerous --- that it is Repugnant to Modesty-Tends to Destroy the Peace of Families, and Endanger Virtue.
Foster, Francis.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The signal: or, a satyr against modesty.
Hawling, Francis, active 1723-1751.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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False modesty, that protects vice by ignorance / by E.B. Lowry.
Lowry, E. B. (Edith Belle), 1878-1945.Date: 1912- Books
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The pattern of modesty. An examen of two or three merry arguments in a pamphlet call'd, The defence of Toby Dismal. Translated from the Paris edition. By Alexander Blunt, ...
Date: 1724- Books
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A compleat treatise of moral and intellectual virtues: wherein their nature is fully explained, and their usefulness proved, inasmuch as they regulate all the Branches of Life. Under the following Heads, viz. I. The Nature of Ethicks. II. Fortitude. III. Temperance. IV. Liberality. V. Magnificence. VI. Magnanimity. Vii. Meekness. Viii. The Three Conversable Virtues, viz. Comity, Veracity, and Urbanity. IX. Modesty. X. Taciturnity, or the Government of Speech. XI. Justice. XII. Intellectual Virtues. XIII. Art. XIV. Prudence. XV. Understanding, Science, and Wisdom. XVI. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Decay of Moral Virtues. XVII. The Conclusion drawn from the Premisses. With Apreface shewing the Vanity and Deceitfulness of Vice. By John Hartcliffe, late B. D. and Fellow of King's-College, Cambridge.
Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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The delicate songster, or, ladies vocal repository. Comprizing a select and elegant collection of the most esteemed songs; Which are sung At the Theatres, Public Gardens, &c. Whose Peculiar Merit have introduced them into the Polite Parties of the first Fashion, and established their reputation, with those of the finest taste, including some approved Original designs, to exercise the Talents of the Fair Sex in Musical Composition. With a Poetical Address to the Ladies, on Taste, in Singing, and another Original Piece entitled, The Fair Ones Moniter, Or Musico Poetical Medley of Charges against man. From the best Authorities. The whole designed as A sentimential Museum of Poetical and Musicial excellence and calculated to engage the attention, without ... the Taste, to Harmonize the Soul, without Irritating the Passion, and to chear the Heart, without forcing a blush into the cheek of Modesty.
Date: [1795?]- Books
Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. I, The evolution of modesty : The phenomena of sexual periodicity / by Havelock Ellis.
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.Date: [1910], ©1910- Books
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An impartial survey of Mr. De Foe's singular modesty and veracity, in presuming to dedicate his Experiment to the Queen. ...
Date: 1710- Books
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The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being Directions, How Women of all Qualities and Conditions, ought to Behave themselves in the various Circumstances of this Life, for their Obtaining not only Present, but Future Happiness. I. Directions how to Obtain the Divine and Moral Vertues of Piety, Meekness. Modesty, Chastity, Humility, Compassion, Temperance and Affability, with their Advantages, and how to avoid the opposite Vices. II. The Duty of Virgins, Directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoid, for gaining all the Accomplishments required in that State. With the Whole Art of Love, &c. 3. The Whole Duty of a Wife. 4. The Whole Duty of Widow &c. Also Choice Receipts in Physick, and Chirurgery. With the Whole Art of Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.
Lady, active 1701.Date: 1701- Books
Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 2, The evolution of modesty / by Havelock Ellis : The phenomena of sexual periodicity / by Havelock Ellis.
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.Date: 1900- Books
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Scotch modesty displayed, in a series of conversations that lately passed between an Englishman and a Scotchman. Addressed to the worthy patriots of England.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]