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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity, read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Date: 1850- Books
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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity : read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.Date: 1850- Books
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A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity / read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.
Date: 1850- Books
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On the distinction between crime and insanity : an essay, to which the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane awarded the premium of twenty guineas / by Thomas Coutts Morison.
Morison, Thomas Coutts.Date: 1844- Books
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Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke. Together with a short abstract or classification of cases ; contributed by Sir Alexander Morison.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.Date: 1854- Books
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Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane, and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane (London, England)Date: 1854- Books
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Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke : together with a short abstract or classification of cases ; contributed by Sir Alexander Morison.
Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895.Date: 1854- Books
The dwellings of the labouring classes : their arrangement and construction with the essentials of a healthy dwelling, illustrated by references to the model houses of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes ... and other recent buildings; with plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns and to rural districts / by Henry Roberts.
Roberts, Henry, 1803-1876.Date: [1867]- Books
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Occasional sermons upon the following subjects: the office and duty of bishops. Error and ignorance dispelled by the appearance of the Messiah. The incarnation of Christ matter of the highest joy. The Inefficacy of external Professions. On the same. Inequality of Condition advantageous to Society. Death entailed on Mankind by the Fall of Adam. The evil Tendency of false Shame. Advantages of Contentment. Benefits of an early virtuous Education. The Doctrine of the Trinity considered. The Blessing of implicit Faith in the Gospel. Religion the most perfect System of Morality. Universal Obligation to Works of Benevolence. Public Thanksgiving to God, its great Excellency and Importance. Providence of God the sole Guide of human Affairs. Pernicious Effects of evil Company. Care of the Poor recommended, especially of Lying-in Women. A religious Life the Source of true Pleasure. Charity illustrated and recommended, from the Life of Moses. Also: Oratio in Funere, &c. Written by a late eminent divine of the Church of England.
Lawson, John, 1712-1759.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
Institutionalizing the insane in nineteenth-century England / by Anna Shepherd.
Shepherd, Anna.Date: 2014- Books
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On improving the condition of the insane / by Henry Munro.
Date: 1851- Books
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The habitations of the industrial classes : their influence on the physical and on the social and moral condition of these classes, showing the necessity for legislative enactments : being an address, delivered at Crosby Hall, November 27th, 1850 / by Hector Gavin.
Gavin, Hector.Date: [1851]- Books
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Thoughts on the necessity of improving the condition of the slaves in the British colonies, with a view to their ultimate emancipation; and on the practicability, the safety, and the advantages of the latter measure / [Thomas Clarkson].
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.Date: 1823- Books
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The Reports of the society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor.
Date: [1797-1814]- Books
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Centenary of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society 1805-1905 : exhibition of books, instruments, and other objects of interest, brought together mainly for the purpose of illustrating the condition of medicine at the time the Society was established.
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.Date: 1905- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons, houses of correction, and hospitals in London and Westminster : taken from a late publication of John Howard ... by permission of the author : to which is prefixed, an introduction, stating the Acts lately passed for improving the prisons in this kingdom, the good effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into execution, the abuses, which still continue where they have been neglected and the means by which those abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons, houses of correction, and hospitals in London and Westminster. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F. R. S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the Norfolk circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an introduction, stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the midland circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F. R. S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected; and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the home circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected; and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the western circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F. R. S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this Kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected; and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the Oxford circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed an introduction stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the northern circuit. Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected; and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, in all branches of learning: Containing several libraries lately purchased, In which are included those of Monsieur Sanson, and The Rev. Mr. Francis Peck, lately deceased. The books are in fine Condition, and great Numbers of them elegantly Bound. Amongst many more valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio. Winstanley's Views of Audly End Atkyns's Gloucestershire Carte's Hist. England, 4 v. in Russia leather Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Prints of the Antiquarian Society, 2 vol. in Russia leather Wood's Palmyra Universal History, 10 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquitics and Suppl. in 8 v. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all Nations, with Picart's cuts, 6 vol. Thurloe's State Papers, large and sm. pap. Bacon's Works, large and small paper Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. large paper Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 2 vol. Peere William's Reports, 3 vol. Ventris's Reports, best edit. Ld. Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Lilly's Conveyancer, 2 vol. best edit. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwayte's Dictionary, 2 v. Bayle's Dictionary, l. pap. in Turkey, 5 vol. - Dict. sm. pap. 5 vol. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. James's Med. Dict. 3 vol. Folio. Platonis Opera Serrani, 3 tom. -- Ficini, edit. opt. -- Gr. ap Aldum Aristophanes Kusteri Xenophon Leunclavii Euripides Barnesii Thucydides Dukeri Plutarchi Opera, a Zylandri, 2 tom. Idem, compact. in 4 tom. Lucian Bourdelotio Demostthenes Wolfii Aeschylus Stanleii Polybius Casauboni The King of Poland's Gallery, bound in Russia leather Count Bruhl's Gallery, in Russia leather Columna Trajana & Antonina Ectypa Varia ad Hist. Illust. a T. Hearne Musaeum Veronens. Cortonense, Odescaleum, Romanum, &c. Corps Diplomatique, 23 vol. complet. Ocuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. grande pap. Etat de la France, par Boullanvilliers, 3 t. Guiccuardin Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Ven. Davlla, 2 tom. Ven. Thuani Hist. Sui Temp. 7 t. ch. max. Le Neptune Francoise Par. Clarke, 4 v. Burnet's Reform. 3 vol. Tillotson, Barrow, &c. Waltoni Bib. Polyglotta & Lex. 8 t. Critici Sacri & Supp. 13 tom. Clerici in Vet. & Nov. Test. 6 tom. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, on Monday, February 13th, 1758, and continue till are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews-Gate, near St. Martin's-Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 d. (to be returned) to be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Strahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's-Street; Mr. Matthews and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1758]