The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Τόμος 17Henry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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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 ...
Σελίδα 10
... received by Aloysia Weber with coldness almost amounting to contempt ; and in June 1779 he returned to Salzburg , hoping against hope that he might make some better terms with the archbishop , who re- lented so far as to attach a salary ...
... received by Aloysia Weber with coldness almost amounting to contempt ; and in June 1779 he returned to Salzburg , hoping against hope that he might make some better terms with the archbishop , who re- lented so far as to attach a salary ...
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 ...
Σελίδα 18
... 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 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.