In the wake of imperial expansion, the migration of British accounting professionals to both settler and non-settler colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries bequeathed an enduring legacy for the professionalisation process in these countries.
"What the great religious epoch of the seventeenth century bequeathed to its utilitarian successor was … an amazingly good, we may even say a pharisaically good conscience in the acquisition of money," Weber writes.
She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time.
In the 1960s the Beeching cuts to branch lines reduced Britain's rail network by a third and bequeathed the country a ready-made rural cycling and walking network.
It is $2,000 worth of second-hand steel, bequeathed from patient to patient.
Nineteenth-century novelists bequeathed penetrating and sophisticated means for delineating character.
President George W. Bush started trying to close the prison in his second term and bequeathed 242 detainees to Mr. Obama.
Two years after discovery Morikawa sold the scroll to the Niigata businessman and master of the tea ceremony, Masuda Donō (益田鈍翁, 1847－1938, who had it cut into parts. One part (Morikawa edition), the fifth segment, is bequeathed to the Morikawa family and today in a private collection.
The best book among many good, if more pedestrian, ones, "The Ghost in the Little House," by William Holtz, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Missouri, explores a controversy that first arose after Wilder bequeathed her original manuscripts to libraries in Detroit and California.
Unlike Mr. Speegle, who was bequeathed his first big batch by another collector, and who appears to have adopted the attitude that the rest slipped into the house one day when he forgot to lock the door, Ms. Mersky loves her paint-by-number paintings.
