Six faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) joy, fear, pity, scorn, anger, and grief. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1825.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Boer War: wounded soldiers greeted with sympathy at Modder River Camp, after their trials at Magersfontein. Reproduction of a sketch by F. de Haenen after R. Thiele.

The healing touch, emotional cancer journey, artwork

The nature, obligation and importance of Christian compassion, illustrated  in a sermon preached before the Middlesex Lodge, of Free and Accepted Masons, in Framingham, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1796. By David Kellogg, Pastor of the church in said town. Published at the request of the society.

Compassions called for  An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwreck'd on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. [Three lines of Scripture texts].

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A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Boer War: wounded soldiers greeted with sympathy at Modder River Camp, after their trials at Magersfontein. Reproduction of a sketch by F. de Haenen after R. Thiele.

The healing touch, emotional cancer journey, artwork