Familiar Words as Affecting England and the EnglishTrübner & Company, 1856 - Great Britain |
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Familiar Words, As Affecting England and the English (Classic Reprint) David Urquhart No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 160 - Divine command to replenish the earth, to increase and multiply upon it, and to have dominion over the beasts of the forest, the birds of the air, the fish in the waters, and the creeping things of the earth. JAS. 18, 1830.] Mr. Foot's Resolution. ' Si •- ,T! The fourth point of objection is, in the removal of the land records — the natural effect of abolishing all the offices of the Surveyors General.
Page 17 - Factory Act limits working day for women and young persons to io hours. James Simpson discovers anaesthetic properties of chloroform. Louis Napoleon escapes to England from prison. A. Bronte, Agnes Grey; C. Bronte, Jane Eyre; E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Tennyson, The Princess. ]. M. Morton's Box and Cox acted Outbreak of cholera in London. Public Health Act. End of Chartist Movement. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded. 'The Year of Revolutions
Page 68 - St. John " Passion music performed for the first time in England in Hanover Square Rooms.
Page 62 - ... Academy removes to Burlington House. Alma-Tadema's Danse Pyrrhique and Amateur Romain, F. Walker's Old Gate at the RA A. Sullivan's Prodigal Son performed at the Worcester Musical Festival (Sept.). Thames Embankment opened from Westminster to Vauxhall (Sept. 1). HJ Byron appears at the Globe Theatre as Sir Simon Simple in his own play, Not such a Fool as He Looks (Oct. 23). New Men and Old Acres, by Tom Taylor and Alfred Dubourg, produced at the Haymarket Theatre, with Madge Robertson as Lilian...