Sentences with phrase «from ancien»

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

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As Christians, we are glad to assert that the commandment to have no other god, when allied to the gospel, liberated us from the divine ancien régime; or that this same commandment must be proclaimed again if modern persons are to be rescued from the superstitions of our age.

Hobbes and Locke are reeling from the so - called «wars of religion,» and Rousseau had his fill of the French Catholic Church's rather too cozy relationship with the French aristocracy (the ancien regime).

This necessarily involves a look at the tensions, debates and passions marking the era from Vatican I to Vatican II: a Church struggling with dramatic changes in European politics as the last vestiges of the ancien regime toppled.

Most accounts of the history of schooling take us from fee - based schools in ancien Athens, to the first tax - funded public schools in our land in Boston in 1635, to the compulsory education of Horace Mann's «common school» in the mid - 19th century.

But the tour is deeply rooted in the local love for les vehicules anciens, with eyeful after eyeful of cars we'd rarely seen, if ever, like Ford and Renault torpedoes, one from 1912, the other from 1913, and a Rosengart SuperTraction Cabriolet.