| Sir William Reynell Anson - Agency (Law). - 1879 - 486 pages
...than that of moral obligation, and that the phrase, which was of common use in the Common Law Courts at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, has had an unhappy and obscuring influence upon this branch of the law of contract. The question was... | |
| Sir George Grove - Music - 1879 - 802 pages
...under Haydn (Lidl played in concerts in England in 1776); Friedel, member of the royal band at Berlin at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Fauner (1794! and V. Hauschka (1795-1823) are named as accomplished amateur-performers. 3. Composers... | |
| John Parkin - Epidemics - 1880 - 540 pages
...last pestilential epoch ; and although isolated, or sporadic, outbreaks occurred in a few instances, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, it did not appear in an epidemic form, until about the period of the first outbreak of cholera in Europe... | |
| Sir William Reynell Anson - Agency (Law) - 1880 - 442 pages
...than that of moral obligation, and that the phrase, which was of common use in the Common Law Courts at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, has had an unhappy and obscuring influence upon this branch of the 20 NY 268; Burr v. Beers, 24 NY... | |
| George Grove - Music - 1880 - 778 pages
...scored, July 4, do. ALEXANDER, JOHANN (or, according to Fetis, JOSEPH), violoncellist, lived at Duisburg at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. He was distinguished more for the beauty of his tone and the excellence of hi-* style than for any... | |
| 1881 - 436 pages
...of the community, in a popular form, a selection of the choicest works of the two gifted men, who, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, created a style. It is not given to many men to do this, and it is presumptive evidence of much inherent... | |
| Karl Hillebrand - France - 1881 - 294 pages
...military organisation, Thiers was a true representative of the best of that generation, which was born at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. He was even more the type of modern enlightened France in his complete indifference as to certain forms... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1881 - 290 pages
...no duty in the case ; it was taken off glass by the late Act." 1 In the Gamester. HE WOULD NOT DINE. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, few of the great London merchants (says Boyd) had their private residences in the West End. They lived... | |
| Edward Walford, George W. Redway - Archaeology - 1884 - 352 pages
...and fashion, from paintings by John Hopper, RA, engraved by Charles Wilkin, and originallyprodnced at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. The following is a list of the portraits : Lady Charlotte Duncombe ; Charlotte, Viscountess St. Asaph ;... | |
| Coins, Oriental - 1882 - 272 pages
...(Ráyadurga), a district of Bellary, Major (Sir Thomas) Munro states that they were the only gold coins current at the end- of the last and beginning of the present century, although not accepted in the neighbouring districts.1 This is accounted for by the fact that on the... | |
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