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The political theory and practice of technology under Louis XIV / Alice Stroup.
Stroup, AliceDate: 1991- Pictures
William Hogarth whitewashing a large jack boot; representing Hogarth's acceptance of patronage from Lord Bute. Etching, 1762, by Paul Sandby.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.Date: Sepr 1762Reference: 580036i- Books
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An essay on preferment. By the author of the rapsody on the army.
Author of the rapsody on the army.Date: printed in the year, 1736- Books
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An epistle on preferment, inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Found among the papers of a great author.
Date: D.DCC.XLIV [1744]- Books
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(second night.) With considerable alterations & additions. The Exhibition, dramatic - brush, Royal procession, &c. was received on Wednesday Evening by a numerous and genteel Audience, with universal Approbation. To the Lovers of Novelty, Whim, and Humour. At the Bell Great-Room, in Brecon, On Friday Evening, December 4th, 1789, Will be presented, A Humorous, Pleasant, and Whimsical Exhibition of the Times: Or, as you like it. By Mrs. Hudson, (from the Royalty-Theatre, London; but last from Gloucester, Cheltenham, Worcester, &c.) Consisting of Music, Recitations, Imitations, Emblems and Caricatures, Original, Moral, Political and Satirical. In part the first, Will be introduced a variety of Striking Likenesses, or Characteristic Busts and Paintings, executed by an able Artist, and descanted upon with Humour and Sentiment, interspersed with some Serious and Comic Subjects from the Lecture on Heads, as altered by Pilon, and performed at the Royalty Theatre upwards of Seventy Nights. The first Part to conclude with the Bust of that brave Roman General, Belisarius, and the universally admired song of ̀̀date Obolum Belisario,'' by Mr. Hudson. Part Second, The dramatic brush, (with alterations and additions.) For rubbing off the rust of care, And Smoothing the Wrinkled Brow of Melancholy. As performed by Mrs. Hudson, in London last Summer, upwards of fifty nights. The second Part to conclude with the Bust of Shakspeare, and the favourite song of ̀̀the Seven Ages, or Stage Play of Human Life,'' by Mr. Hudson. Part Third, The Humours of the Times: Or, The World as it goes. In which will be introduced several laughable Characters of the present Age, &c. To conclude with a Favourite song, by Mr. Hudson. The whole to conclude with A new and grand Spectacle, in Commemoration of the King's happy Recovery, in which will be introduced, A complete and exact Representation of the Royal Procession to St. Paul's, On St. George's Day, as it moved on between Temple-Bar and Ludgate-Hill, And performed in London last Summer upwards of One Hundred and Thirty Nights. The Scenery, Machinery, and Decorations entirely New, and executed in the most masterly Style, by Two of the first Artists in London. - To close with ̀̀god save the King!'' - Tickets to be had at the principal Inns; at the Printing-Office; and at the Bell. Pit 2s. - Gallery 1s. - The Doors to be opened at Half after Five, and to begin at Half after Six O'Clock. - This Spacious large Room is elegantly fitted up with proper Scenery, a Stage, and every Decoration necessary to form a complete Theatre; - And the ladies and gentlemen of Brecon, and its Vicinity, are respectfully informed, that neither Pains or Expence have been wanting to render the above Amusements worthy their Patronage and Encouragement.
Hudson, Mr.Date: 1789]- Books
Family and friends in eighteenth-century England : household, kinship, and patronage / Naomi Tadmor.
Tadmor, Naomi.Date: 2000- Books
Curing the body politic : chemistry and commerce at court, 1664-70 / Pamela H. Smith.
Smith, Pamela H.Date: 1991- Books
The age of William III & Mary II : power, politics, and patronage, 1688-1702 a reference encyclopedia and exhibition catalogue / edited by Robert P. Maccubbin & Martha Hamilton-Phillips.
Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Temple, on the subject of the forty-fifth number of the North-Briton; and on his patronage of the supposed author of it.
Date: 1763- Books
Professors, patronage and politics : the Aberdeen Universities in the eighteenth century / Roger L. Emerson.
Emerson, Roger L.Date: 1992- Books
Steam, politics and patronage : the transformation of the Royal Navy, 1815-54 / Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard.
Greenhill, Basil.Date: 1994- Pictures
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Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance [an officer?] at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.
Sanders, John, active 1750-1783.Date: 1772Reference: 38744i- Books
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A collection of letters on patronage and popular election: some of which have appeared in the public prints, and are now illustrated with notes; others never before published: containing the arguments on both sides of the present controversy, as produced by the respective parties themselves wherein Are many Articles from the Fathers, from eminent Scripture-Critics, and from Ecclesiastical History, rarely to be met with in Modern Publications on that Subject. The whole breathing a Spirit of Candour and Moderation, very instructive and entertaining, and peculiarly necessary for all who interest themselves in the Debate about Patronage; and promising entire satisfaction to them on that Head.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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From heads of household to heads of state : the preaccession households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 / J.L. McIntosh.
McIntosh, Jeri L. (Jeri Lynne)Date: 2013, ©2008- Books
Essays on David Hume, medical men and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge and humanity / Roger L. Emerson.
Emerson, Roger L.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience / edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; with a foreword by Joseph Dumit.
Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
The healthy life : people, perceptions, politics : 2-5 September 1999, Almuñecar (Granada, Spain) : book of abstracts / European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, International Network for the History of Public Health.
Date: 1999- Books
Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires : a decentered view / edited by László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török.
Date: 2014- Videos
Science and Islam. 1. The language of science.
Date: 2017- Books
Imperial ecology : environmental order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 / Peder Anker.
Anker, Peder.Date: 2001- Books
After love : queer intimacy and erotic economies in post-soviet cuba / Noelle M. Stout.
Stout, Noelle M., 1976-Date: 2014- Pictures
Sir Donald McLeod, Governor of the Punjab, receiving the respect of the Sikh elders. Gouache painting, ca. 1870.
Date: [1870?]Reference: 30605i- Pictures
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Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
Reference: 24350i- Books
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800 / edited by Daniela Bleichmar [and others].
Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Medieval Italy : Texts in Translation / Katherine L. Jansen, Joanna Drell, Frances Andrews.
Date: [2011]