The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Τόμος 17Henry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for The same number ...
... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for The same number ...
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... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
Σελίδα 10
... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
Σελίδα 11
... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of this ...
... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of this ...
Σελίδα 13
... produce of two creatures of different species , and MULE . Though this term is not unfrequently applied is synonymous with ... produced , owing to the antipathy of the stallion to the female ass , that many authorities deny its existence ...
... produce of two creatures of different species , and MULE . Though this term is not unfrequently applied is synonymous with ... produced , owing to the antipathy of the stallion to the female ass , that many authorities deny its existence ...
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Σελίδα 225 - 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 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 133 - The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Σελίδα 53 - Pennsylvania, all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, 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 in the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree.
Σελίδα 313 - neglect," "negligence," "negligent," and "negligently" import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequences of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concerns; 3.
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 57 - LL.B. in 1823, and was called to the. Bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn, in Michaelmas Term...
Σελίδα 226 - It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Σελίδα 53 - all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Σελίδα 53 - Any wrongful act or insult, of such a nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of selfcontrol, may be provocation if the offender acts upon it on the sudden, and before there has been time for his passion to cool.