10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PESTHOUSE»
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pesthouse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pesthouse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
With the end of one dream a new one is born. Inspired by their growing love, Franklin and Margaret decide to return west, with the baby, as a family. Jim Crace concludes “going westward, they would go free.” From the Hardcover edition.
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804. Oil on canvas, 17
5 23 7. Louvre, Paris. Gros's huge painting glorifies Napoleon as possessing the
miraculous power to heal and reflects David's compositional principles, but ...
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The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
How much worse might the accoutrements of death have been for someone sent
off to die in a pesthouse? Covent Garden's register bears no trace of where the
Widow Page and the daughter of Widow Thorn were placed after they expired in
...
A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote, 2008
Fifteen days after assuming command of Second Fleet, Raymond Prescott sat still
and silent on his flag bridge, eyes burning, as the survivors of Operation
Pesthouse limped brokenly back into Centauri. Half of his remaining capital ships
were ...
David Weber, Steve White, 2004
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Christian Service: A Compilation
Men in their blindness boast of wonderful progress and enlightenment; but the
heavenly watchers see the earth filled with corruption and violence. Because of
sin the atmosphere of our world has become as the atmosphere of a pesthouse.
Ellen Gould Harmon White, 2002
Isannah's words rang in his ears. He who had struggled hard never to cry now
wished that he could. Then he walked off into sparsely settled West Boston.
Behind the pesthouse by lantern light men were digging a hurried grave. He 71.
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American law reports annotated
A municipality may erect and maintain a pesthouse outside its corporate limits, if
in so doing it complies with the statutes regulating such institutions, and
exercises due care and discretion, having regard to the character of the locality
and the ...
Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1919
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American Law Reports Annotated
constitutional provision against taking or damaging property without
compensation, is discussed in the note to Oklahoma City v. Veller, post, 1012. 2.
Without municipal limits. A municipality may erect and maintain a pesthouse
outside its ...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ...
HEALTH BOARD1 — Powers— Taking of Private Property— Pesthouse. — If a
board of health provides for the erection of a pesthouse, and such erection
destroys the value of private property and amounts to a taking therof, such act
cannot be ...
Abraham Clark Freeman, 1906
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The Southwestern Reporter
Where a city was authorized to establish hospitals and make all necessary
regulations for the protection of the public health, and, in pursuance thereof,
established a pesthouse for persons suffering from contagious diseases, acts of
the city's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PESTHOUSE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pesthouse is used in the context of the following news items.
Jim Crace interview: 'I never think of the reader. I am curious about …
... of Distress, Quarantine, The Devil's Larder, Six – “which you didn't like” – The Pesthouse and All That Follows. For all the books, all the ideas, ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Review: 'Abigail/1702' is a devil of a sequel to 'Crucible'
She is running a pesthouse where she treats the many sailors who have serious illnesses and would otherwise die. Into her house comes a ... «Long Beach Press Telegram, May 15»
This week's planned roadworks in the East of England
The second phase will begin on Tuesday (10 February) between junctions 51 and 52 (Pesthouse Lane). The eastbound carriageway will be ... «Newmarket Journal, Feb 15»
Seattle's Beacon Hill through the years
The pesthouse burned and, in its place, Seattle built a particularly egalitarian golf course, which opened a century ago. The public course was ... «seattlepi.com, Feb 15»
Jim Crace wants to put Malta on the literary map
Among his most celebrated novels are Continent (1986), The Gift of Stones (1988), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), The Pesthouse ... «MaltaToday, Nov 14»
Some of London's most popular picnic spots on top of plague pits
Pesthouse Close / Marshall Street Leisure Centre, Soho As its name suggests, this area was once home to a pest-house where infected or sick ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
Plague fiction – why authors love to write about pandemics
Jim Crace, The Pesthouse (2007). As if determined, like Saramago, not to allow commercial authors to completely appropriate the dystopian ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
'Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty …
It changed hands again before being bought for government use as a pesthouse and quarantine station in 1750. In 1814, federal authorities ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»
'Andersonville of North': a lie that refuses to die
“Food was scanty, one blanket did for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pesthouse ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jun 14»
Looking Back
An improvised pesthouse is crowded. •••. The earnest and thrifty congregation of the Swedish-Lutheran church have installed new pews in their ... «St. Ignace News, Nov 13»
