The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Τόμος 17H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... received a com- mission to write an opera for the following Christmas . At Bologna he found firm friends in the venerable Padre Martini and the still more famous sopranist Fari- nelli . At Florence he became so tenderly attached to ...
... received a com- mission to write an opera for the following Christmas . At Bologna he found firm friends in the venerable Padre Martini and the still more famous sopranist Fari- nelli . At Florence he became so tenderly attached to ...
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... received with acclamation , and not long penniless . On hearing of this Leopold ordered his wife afterwards was performed with equal success at Prague . and son to start instantly for Paris , where they arrived on This great work raised ...
... received with acclamation , and not long penniless . On hearing of this Leopold ordered his wife afterwards was performed with equal success at Prague . and son to start instantly for Paris , where they arrived on This great work raised ...
Σελίδα 11
... received a commission to write an opera for the next season , with a fee of 100 ducats . Da Ponte furnished a libretto , founded on Tirso de Molina's tale , El Convidado de Piedra , and entitled Il Don Giovanni . By 28th October 1787 ...
... received a commission to write an opera for the next season , with a fee of 100 ducats . Da Ponte furnished a libretto , founded on Tirso de Molina's tale , El Convidado de Piedra , and entitled Il Don Giovanni . By 28th October 1787 ...
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... received numerous commissions for finished pictures . But his health was seriously impaired , he was suffering from heart - disease and from continued nasal hæmorrhage ; and , returning to his native city , he died there on 8th ...
... received numerous commissions for finished pictures . But his health was seriously impaired , he was suffering from heart - disease and from continued nasal hæmorrhage ; and , returning to his native city , he died there on 8th ...
Σελίδα 19
... received a tolerable education , chiefly under Catholic priests . He was fond of reading , furtively studying Pope's Homer and other works at the book - stalls , and fonder still of drawing . When eleven years old Mulready was employed ...
... received a tolerable education , chiefly under Catholic priests . He was fond of reading , furtively studying Pope's Homer and other works at the book - stalls , and fonder still of drawing . When eleven years old Mulready was employed ...
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Σελίδα 53 - Culpable homicide, which would otherwise be murder, may be reduced to manslaughter if the person who causes death does so in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation.
Σελίδα 57 - LL.B. in 1823, and was called to the. Bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn, in Michaelmas Term...
Σελίδα 225 - I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Σελίδα 196 - I come to lead you into the most fertile plains in the world : rich provinces, great cities, will be in your power. There you will have wealth, honour, and glory. Soldiers of Italy, can your courage fail?
Σελίδα 138 - What must have been the result of this ? As long as people thought in language, it was simply impossible to speak of morning or evening, of spring and winter, without giving to these conceptions something of an individual, active, sexual, and at last, personal character.
Σελίδα 53 - If the offender, for any unlawful object, does an act which he knows or ought to have known to be likely to cause death, and thereby kills any person, though he may have desired that his object should be effected without hurting any one.
Σελίδα 53 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Σελίδα 52 - ... (d.) an intent to oppose by force any officer of justice on his way to, in, or returning from the execution of the duty of arresting, keeping in custody, or imprisoning any person whom he is lawfully entitled to arrest, keep in custody, or imprison, or the duty of keeping the peace or dispersing an unlawful assembly, provided that the offender has notice that the person killed is such an officer so employed.
Σελίδα 53 - If the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily injury which is known to the offender to be likely to cause death, and if the offender, whether he does or does not mean to cause death, is reckless whether death ensues or not...
Σελίδα 129 - The thought that is most intensely present with the mystic is that of a supreme, all-pervading, and in-dwelling power, in whom all things are one.