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The Rolex Collection

... relief by embossment in the scrolled, ornamental style of Louis XV. The fmely executed engraving shows Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers. Ring and pendant are strictly classical. It is doubly fitting that Geneva should house one of the fmest private ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1985
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 650 | Page: 105 | Tags: none

The case for sensible rationing Harming your health? Wish you could cut down drastically ? Here's the ideal way ..

... effective. Begin with the briefest of intervalsgradually extend it to the 2-hour limit. Free yourself from chain-smoking slavery in days. Elegantly styled in black Morocco grain vinyl with 18 et. gold leaf border. Only £3.13.6 less than a 50-a-day man ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 229 | Page: 76 | Tags: none

Low Marx for Duelling

... wounded in a duel with D. S. Terry, chief justice of the same state. It was partly a dispute over patronage, but Terry was a slavery man, and Broderick was escorted to the grave by a large gathering, as a martyr of the abolitionist cause. In such a case a ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1988
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 694 | Page: 118 | Tags: none

Douglas (S)

... phrenologist (I 0) 17. Paddy's idea of cheap en tertainments gets home ( 10) 20. Send her in! (anagr.) (9) 21. I'ifty in slavery you may meet in the country (6) 23. See I~ 27. The wind might so treat one ahead (S} 28. Rl\·et 111 the fountaln (S) 30. The ...

Published: Thursday 26 November 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE-MAY 6, 1965 1077 Thackeray - and subsequently dispersed. the house is hiddePJ~i~~ ie. Q ntations ..

... \lilyatt decora-plantation-owner in J amaica to preside over tion, and give support to the family tradition the abolition of slavery, by which he was one that Benjamin Dean Wyatt was intended to of the larger losers. H e died in 1845, and his redecorate his ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1965
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1169 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

ROOM

... and his repeated failings in this respect made Wilberforce's great exertions in the education of public opinion against slavery the more notable. He worked too, with especial zeal, for the proper observance of Sunday and for the religious instruction ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 243 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

BICENTENARY OF A GREAT REFORMER WILBERFORCE MEMENTOES IN YORKSHIRE

... tories of slave estates. Hung on the contemporary pictures the hideous traffic. WILBERFORCE HOUSE, WHERE THE anti-slavery the anti-slavery campaign are housed here Many relics of denunciations is a model of a slave-trader showing the method of stowing ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2561 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

SUPPLEMENT-50 COUNTRY LIFE-JUNE 5, 1975 S. MARCHANT AND SON Chinese & Japanese Works of Art ESTABLISHED 1925 ..

... reason to believe that they were used by William Wilberforce, who campaigned for the abolition of slave trading and an end to slavery, during the early years of the last century. I 0 183 b Kings Road, Chelsea Tel: 01-229 5319 Cables: 'Marchanson' London WS ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 629 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

TARNISHED AND TAINTED

... notable example of this is to be found in the J efferson Memozial in Washington, where the inscription dealing with freedom and slavery i not the continuous piece of prose it appears to be, but an amalgam of sentences drawn from different sources to create a ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1996
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 746 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

using a pick-up reel on the combine. As regards actual figures, prices and costs, this is always something of a

... and Co. He also intended to meet Abolitionists and members of the cotton industry who could be persuaded to accept the anti-slavery cause. By his next visit in 1859 Olmsted was immersed in the problems of designing Central Park, so it is not surprising for ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1976
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 779 | Page: 74 | Tags: none

3-TIBETAN MONASTERY AT GROOM, NEAR DARJEELING

... 1835 was a peaceful transaction in return for a substantial allowance, but friction arose through the. Sikkimese practice of slavery, which came to a head with the detention of Dr. Campbell, the Superintendent, and Sir Joseph H ooker, the naturalist, while ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1974
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 799 | Page: 79 | Tags: none