Sentences with phrase «how eighteenth century»

Ann Goldgar, in her un-kindled, non-googled, Impolite Learning, describes how the eighteenth century, called at the time «the century of the journal,» was marked by complaints about the very shallowness, laziness, and loss of learning fostered by the book abridgements and reviews that appeared in these new periodicals.

How eighteenth century.

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Not «Let us our songs employ,» or «Let all their songs employ,» but men.That's how Isaac Watts wrote it back in the eighteenth century, when he wrote Joy to the World.This line gets changed from «men» to «us» or....

It is very difficult to try to understand how an eighteenth - century figure would have reacted to the later struggles of the nineteenth century and how the tradition should be interpreted with integrity in a new age.

Japan's Bach boom does, however, have one baffling aspect: how is it possible that melodies and rhythms from eighteenth - century Germany should please people of an entirely alien culture thousands of miles to the east?

De Bruyn develops, for example, a complicated argument about how madness, misrule, and other social pathologies are «the inevitable products» of eighteenth - century polite society.

What they said and how they said it was a joy to hear in comparison with some of the dry doctrinal fare of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

If we then consider the general theory of relativity, it becomes clear how very far contemporary physics is from the basic concepts of the eighteenth century.

(How was it ever conceivable, we ask, that a man like Christian Wolff, in whose dry - as - dust head all the learning of the early eighteenth century was concentrated, should have preserved such a baby - like faith in the personal and human character of Nature as to expound her operations as he did in his work on the uses of natural things?

Revivalism beginning at the end of the eighteenth century rescued the Church from deism and indifference, finding an answer to the question of how to present the judgment and redemption of God, but also limiting their message and binding it to emotionalism.

The question is how representative of the whole Church these men and societies will be, whether the Augustines and Thomases, not to speak of the Senecas and Ciceros, who belonged to the Reformers» community of discourse are to be heard directly; whether the response of Christians to the fall of the Roman Empire is to be understood or only their response to the decay of medieval civilization; whether the thirteenth - century revival of the Church or only its eighteenth - century awakening is to be regarded; whether only the fathers of a denomination or also the Church fathers on whom they relied are to be included in the community of discourse.

Although «theodicy» as a conceptual term only arose in the eighteenth century with Gottfried Leibniz, the issue it identifies is certainly as old as the Book of Job, to wit, how can God be perceived as both good and powerful if evil exists?

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

Kemp's behavior isn't explained away, but Unsworth does a masterful job of creeping inside his head and imagining how an eighteenth - century capitalist understands the moral universe.

How do you think high - society Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries rationalized the sexual exploitation of enslaved African American women?

As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within — from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out.

Treasure on the Southern Moor is set in the eighteenth century, during the golden age of sail, and shows how gentlemen sailed the raging seas.

This talk by Cleveland Art Museum Assistant Curator of Korean Art Sooa Im McCormick explores how climate changes during the Little Ice Age prompted eighteenth - century Korean rulers to exercise the politics of frugality, and eventually shaped eighteenth - century Korean visual culture and its distinctive aesthetics.

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

How do her exhibits work with Blake collection from the seventeenth and early eighteenth Century?

His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as Salle's own black - and - white photographs, eighteenth - through twentieth - century French and American painting, 1950s print advertising and how - to - draw manuals.