Author: John Iliff WilsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A brief history of Christ's hospital
Author: John Iliff WilsonA Brief History of Christ's Hospital, from its foundation by King Edward the Sixth, to the present time. With a list of the Governors. [The dedication signed: J. I. W., i.e. John Iliff Wilson.]
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Author: Christ's Hospital (London, England)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The History of Christ's Hospital
Author: John Iliff WilsonPublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital
Author: William TrollopePublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital, with an Account of the Plan of Education, the Internal Economy of the Institution, and Memoirs of Eminent Blues
Author: William TrollopePublisher:
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Category : Monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Author: Milton RokeachPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173848
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.”
Christ's Hospital of London, 1552-1598
Author: Carol Kazmierczak ManzionePublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Christ's Hospital was not established as a foundling hospital but as an orphanage and school for "the fatherless children & other poor men's children that were not able to keep them..." It was not a warehouse for unwanted children, but a safe place where they received more than just physical care. The goal of Christ's Hospital was to return these children back to society as useful and productive members. It is a unique institution in that it also performed as an agent of general poor relief, giving money and pensions to elderly and sick adults, even if they were childless. It appears that Christ's, in concert with St.
Annals of Christ's Hospital
Author: Ernest Harold Pearce (Bp. of Worcester)Publisher:
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Category : Haywards Heath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Recollections of a Blue-coat; or, A view of Christ's hospital
Author: George WickhamRecollections of a Blue-coat Boy, Or, A View of Christ's Hospital
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"A candid and very readable account of the school while the author was a pupil, first in the junior department at Hertford (1794-96), and then in London (1796-1802)."--Darton.