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'His parents, on the whole, were glad rather than sorry about his coming, his father observing that at least here was a little mendicant who could be offset against tax...' https://t.co/c991Za231d < #OTD 1800 #GeorgianEra
“If it does, then we might employ your grandfather’s plan to remove mine from these shores. Transportation to the Americas, was it not?”
“What a capital notion!” https://t.co/w27F9yBBSv #historical #18thCentury
“Why, faith!” cried Dora, “be hanged to that! I’d lace his port with jalap of an evening. He’d be sure to spend the night in the closet!” https://t.co/KIMUTsc8iY < Early #19thCentury
A Curious Herbal: Gorgeous Illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell's 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany https://t.co/y9RV5Pk8eZ via @brainpicker < #histmed
"He cast off a certain damsel of the Court there and then. If Mary was Perdita, he was to be Florizel. But, of late, I fancy there’s a change in the wind. Mrs Robinson takes her position a shade too seriously..." https://t.co/odeDJUSCCN #18thcentury #London
I Hear The Music Now https://t.co/1XWm9km6Qb 'There is meaning in every life that is unknown to the traveller.' Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#HolocaustMemorialDay #HolocaustRemembranceDay #poem
'In everything give thanks.' 1 Thessalonians 5:18
The Conversion of St Paul (by glass artist Jude Tarrant at Sunrise Studios) #stainedglass #OTD
Two weeks later, Pitt gave up the ghost. “Oh, my country!” he gasped. “How I leave my country!”
He was forty-six. https://t.co/QQkC4qywSp < #Georgian Early #19thcentury
Byron, Berkeley and Mrs Bunn https://t.co/500QoBzTHe … < #Georgian #theatre
She was born a butcher's daughter https://t.co/ZwYO66rO9b ...loved by a lawyer, proposed to by a Prince and abducted by an Earl (after which you might expect one or two issues!) #womenshistory #eighteenthcentury #19thcentury #Gloucestershire