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Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.


Joseph Lancaster


#female #great #list #might #patronage

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.


Eliza Farnham


#arts #being #each #embellish #found

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.


Richard Cobden


#court #directors #east #government #great

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.


John Hickenlooper


#appointing #argue #because #campaign #emphatic

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.


John Howe


#draws #friends #happiness #honor #makes

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.


Paul Ryan


#corporate #patronage #political #stimulus #their

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#classical-music #composers #covent-garden #handel #london

Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#composers #covent-garden #handel #impressario #music-patronage

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.


Charles Babbage


#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england






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