Sentences with phrase «19th century works»

A handful of 19th century works will be offered.

The gallery shows works by 20th century master photographers, lesser - known mid-century photographers, the Pictorialists, select contemporary artists, as well as unique vernacular and anonymous photographs and selected 19th century works.

NOMA's collecting began in the 1950s with a major gift of 19th century works from the collectors Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and quickly expanded to include works by artist like David Butler, Mose Tolliver, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Clementine Hunter, among many others.

Featuring more than 100 works in both the upstairs and downstairs spaces, the gallery juxtaposes its normal stable of contemporary artists with a heterogeneous collection of 18th and 19th century works that includes Beaux Arts watercolors, botanical and natural history drawings, decorative arts designs, and European plein air studies.

«We have taken great care to exclude 19th Century works by authors who died after 1936, for there is copyright in the item for 70 yeas after the death of the author,»

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite, said workers had likened the conditions to a «gulag», or «labour camp» and described the conditions as «19th century working practices».

From the title, we assume it to be that of folk hero, John Henry, who as a 19th century working - class figure, beat the machine that was about to take over his job, leading to his death.

Their collective name is lifted from the 19th century work of Charles Babbage, the world's first mechanical computational machine: The Difference Engine.

They remain scientists, so - called, who have created no physical hypotheses that go beyond the 19th century work of Arrhenius.

He built numerous computation machines but his masterpiece wasn't completed until 1991, long after his death — although, interestingly enough, when built to the specs and tolerances which would be feasible in the 19th century it worked flawlessly.

Not exact matches

Tarnoff, a former Lapham's Quarterly staffer, has plenty of colour with which to work in recounting the stories of three 18th - and 19th - century counterfeiters: Owen Sullivan, David Lewis, and Samuel Curtis Upham.

I worked with Sting and Trudie Styler, among other artists, on a project telling the love story between Robert Schumann, a 19th - century German composer, and his wife, Clara.

A lawyer and author of several books, Höffner's new two - volume work, Geschichte und Wesen des Urheberrechts (his preferred English translation is The History and Nature of Copyright) contends that the German states» 19th - century transformation from an agricultural backwater to an industrial power the equal of Britain was due in part to their relaxed attitude toward copyright and intellectual property (IP).

It all started when he pulled a random, rare book from his shelf — a book written by a 19th - century horticulturist whose work had fallen into obscurity.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Thereafter Greek Catholics actively sought to attract co-religionists dissatisfied with the Hellenic domination of the local Orthodox church; and during the 19th century various Catholic groups engaged in missionary work among the Arab Orthodox.

Students of 19th - century American sex reformers work a similar vein.

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century.

This tripartite organization makes the overall narrative disjointed, with Beecher fading to the background as ever more characters crowd onstage and the work becomes a survey of 19th - century history.

Mother Mary McKillop in the 19th century and Father John Hawes in the 20th worked to serve the Church in the Australian Outback.

Or maybe the works of Dayananda Saraswati condemning the trends in idolatry of 19th century Hinduism?

Called «The Religion of Healthy - Mindedness» by William James in his classic work, Varieties of Religious Experience, New Thought is a spiritual and philosophical movement associated with the founding of a number of ideologically - related churches in the late 19th and early 20th century United States.

Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.

It was an evangelical favorite, drawn from a popular 19th century revival hymn about the wonder - working power of Christ called «In the Precious Blood of the Lamb.»

Luther in these instances was anticipating our contemporary biblical scholarship, which was a later German gift to the Christian world through the Graf Welhausen School in the 19th century and through the work of Rudolf Bultmann in the 20th.

In the second half of the 19th century tens of thousands of Mexicans — called braceros, a term deriving from brazo, the Spanish word for «arm» — had moved to the U.S. to work in agriculture, mining and light industry.

Yes, because the private charity instead of government programs worked so well in the 19th century.

But the town enjoyed a large Catholic population, descendants of immigrants who had come in the 19th century to work in the mills, and they filled two large and thriving churches.

Whether a work features the kaleidoscope of broken and rearranged images or reminds us of 19th - century novels, Dillard wishes to judge fiction on its own internal integrity: Do the parts cohere?

Her work contributed to fundamental changes that occurred during her lifetime in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth, but, because she was a woman, she could not participate fully in the scientific community of 19th - century Britain.

The Anglican position was made clearer by the work of the Tractarian movement in the 19th century, which emphasised a Catholic understanding of the sacrament as an actual washing away of sin, a regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit and an incorporation into the Church.

Further, on the basis of the data they employ and the stories they tell, the works of 19th - century novelists and social historians are hard to differentiate.

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciences.

We have talked for many hours about key theological issues: the authority of the Bible, the person and work of Christ, the Trinity, «continuing revelations» and the career of Joseph Smith, the 19th century founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church), better known as the Mormon Church.

I'm working on a major project to collect as many 18th and 19th century chile pepper descriptions as I can find to add to the ever - growing archive of chile pepper material posted on the SuperSite.

There were newspaper comments about the way the fans were turning on the players in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was another total split in the club again between 1910 and 1913, (only resolved through the selfless work of Jack Humble, one of the founders).

Children who participate in OSV's «A Child's Work and Play» Discovery Adventures during April school vacation (April 15 - 19) get to wear period clothing and experience first - hand what it was like to be a kid in the early 19th - century.

Welcome to Old Sturbridge Village - a «must - see» New England attraction which depicts life in an early 19th - century rural Village, featuring costumed historians, antique buildings, water - powered mills, and a working farm.

Little was done to preserve the works, many of which date to the 19th Century and most of which were erected before 1940.

By Nancy Platts Trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a better democracy for working people, whether it was the Chartists pushing for the right to vote in the 19th century to the Scottish TUC's role campaigning for a Scottish parliament two decades ago.

Speaking on the Today programme, work and pension select committee chair Frank Field looked back to the early 19th century for a comparison.

Let us now explore how republican thinkers in 19th - century France thought about work in the light of concerns around these «dominations».

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

In the 19th century, A. V. Dicey, a highly influential constitutional scholar and lawyer, wrote of the twin pillars of the British constitution in his classic work Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).

Did they fail to adjust to the needs of the electorate with the enfranchisement of working class males towards the end of the 19th century?

A $ 700,000 state grant to the City of Lockport may be used to begin work on the restoration of two more of the five 19th - century Erie Canal locks, but not for a boat which is needed to demonstrate how they worked.

It means changing the way parliament works so we have a system that reflects the 21st century not the 19th — and that must mean a clear manifesto mandate on democratic House of Lords reform.

And the commission will continue its work through 2020, a century after the ratification of the 19th Amendment.