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  • The painter Pecht called her very pretty, but blamed her for a sober, unimaginative soul.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

  • (Munich, 1875); Pecht, Gesch. der Munchner Kunst (Munich, 1888).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The painter Pecht called her very pretty, but blamed her for a sober, unimaginative soul.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

  • Ammon, their Hercules, God of Strength; in Thoth, child of Kneph, they found Hermes, God of Knowledge; in Pecht, child of Pthah, they found their

    Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

  • Lehrs arrived at dusk, rang the bell, and brought a leg of veal; Kietz brought some rum, sugar, and a lemon; Pecht supplied a goose; and Anders two bottles of the champagne with which he had been presented by a musical instrument-maker in return for a flattering article he had written about his pianos.

    My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

  • A drawing-room had been specially selected for this reading, in which hung a great historical picture by my old friend Pecht, portraying Goethe as a young man reading the first fragments of his Faust before the Grand Duke's ancestors.

    My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848

  • It was only when my old friend Pecht, who had also settled in Dresden for a time, clearly and emphatically explained to me Hanel's standing as an artist, that

    My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

  • Brix; he was a modest, decent fellow, and had been recommended to us by Pecht the painter, whose acquaintance we had recently made.

    My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

  • Pecht, a lawyer with Fulbright & Jaworski, told clients that the subpoenas were focused on the actual performance of shale gas wells compared with how companies were projecting their performance, according to an article on

    NYT > Home Page By IAN URBINA 2011

  • Mr. Pecht did not respond to messages seeking comment.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN URBINA 2011

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