Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
1420-1799
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Singers of Italian Opera
Author: John RosselliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521426978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
The Research Needs of the Clean Water Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and EnvironmentPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo, ...
Author: Buffalo (N.Y.). Common CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2512
Book Description
The Corporation Trust Company's 1913-1924 Income Tax Service
Author: Corporation Trust CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Trade and Navigation
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
A List of the Flag Officers & Other Commissioned Officers of His Majesty's Fleet
Author: Great Britain. AdmiraltyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Anthony Collins The Man and His Works
Author: James O'HigginsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401032173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book is the study of a man who caught my interest both because of his own character and of the variety of his activities. It is an attempt to see him in his relationship, intellectual and literary, with the Europe of his day, to gauge his position in the development of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century thought, to examine the origins of his ideas and their effect and to place him in the social context of the England of the early Eighteenth century. The period in which he lived, coming at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was seminal for our own world and the man himself is of contemporary significance because of the similarity of his outlook, ifnot of his beliefs, to that of many today. He was at the centre of the major theological controversy of the Seventeen twenties and was one of the most contentious figures of his time. I would like to acknowledge my obligation to the scholars and librarians who have assisted me in producing this work: to Dr. E. A. O. Whiteman of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and to Mrs. M. Kneale, late of the same College; to Bodley's librarian Dr. R. Shackleton; to Dr. D. Rogers, Mr. D. G. Neill and to the staff of the Bodleian, especially those who work in Duke Humphrey; to the librarians of Christ Church, All Souls, St. John's, Wadham, Exeter and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford; to Mr. F. G. Emmison, Miss H. E. T.
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