Sentences with phrase «century aristocrat»

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By the 19th century, the buckles on our aristocrat's shoes would have been replaced with laces, but otherwise, they are not unlike the black lace - ups that appeared this year, in Louis Vuitton's fall 2012 collection.

This rye - and - bourbon duo is named for a Bourbon aristocrat who raced horses in the Kentucky Derby during the late 19th century and popularized the Old Fashioned cocktail.

The work is notable for its depiction of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's wearing a pair of remarkably simple black dress shoes.

There are some dividend aristocrats which have not only maintained but increased their dividends for over half a century.

The S&P 500 Buyback Index, which covers the 100 companies that are the busiest buying back shares, rose 48.3 % in 2013, trumping a 33.3 % return for even the S&P Dividend Aristocrat Index brimming with companies that have hiked dividends every year for a quarter - century.

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By the end of the fourth century, becoming a Christian did not mean a radical change in an aristocrat's way of life.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

«If this turns out to be the priestly residence of a wealthy first century Jewish family, it immediately connects not just to the elite of Jerusalem — the aristocrats, the rich and famous of that day — but to Jesus himself,» Tabor said.

It acquired so fashionable an aura among 18th - century British aristocrats that it became known as The English Malady.

For a century and more, this was where writers rubbed shoulders with high - ranking officials and aristocrats.

We pinned down the history of velvet in our trend report for fall 2016 by stating that the aristocrats in the 16th century used it and so can we.

From the mid-19th century to the 1920s and beyond it always sought to cater to the new wealthy class, not the old aristocrats.»

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept «ornamental hermits» for their gardens.

It's set in Venice, Italy of the 16th Century, in a liberal city that still required Jews to barter no goods, wear red hats to distinguish them from the Christian aristocrats, and be locked in the lower class part of town at night, leaving them little to support themselves but for the practice of usury, or the loaning of money for sometimes exorbitant fees.

Mia Wasikowska plays Edith Cushing (yes, we see what you did there, Guillermo), an independent young writer in turn - of - the - century New England who allows herself to be wooed and won by Tom Hiddleston's dashing but down - at - heel English aristocrat Thomas Sharpe.

Mbatha - Raw, 31, is also up for most promising newcomer for her turn as a Caribbean slave's daughter who was raised as an aristocrat in 18th Century England.

Working from a screenplay co-written with Matthew Robbins, whom del Toro previously worked with in 1997 on Mimic, Crimson Peak is set at the turn of the last century where burgeoning writer Edith, formerly of Buffalo, New York, is uprooted to England, having found love and marriage in the arms of the ambitious aristocrat Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston).

Slow West (2015), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American frontier, and Michael Fassbender as bounty hunter Silas who volunteers to be the boy's guide and bodyguard... for a price, of course.

Now new reports were coming in daily through the gates of the Norbulingka, watched not only by his bodyguards and Tibetan army troops but also by representatives of «the people's committee,» a bewildering concept in Tibet, which had been ruled for centuries by aristocrats and abbots, under the authority of the Dalai Lama himself.

The Old Age Security can be linked to 19th century Germany, where a German aristocrat (Otto von Bismarck) wanted to create a pension plan that was 100 % publicly funded in 1889.

Since French royalty enjoyed hunting in the 16th through 19th centuries, nobility and aristocrats favored this breed.

The Maltese was known as «Ye Ancient Dogge of Malta», which for more than 28 centuries has been an aristocrat of the canine world.

The Maltese, at one time known as «Ye Ancient Dogge of Malta,» the Maltese Terrier, the Maltese Spaniel, the Maltese Dog, the Maltese Lion Dog, the Ancient Dogge of Malta, the Melita Dog (taken from the Greek word meli, meaning honey), the Melitaie Dog, the Melitae Dog, the Roman Ladies» Dog, the Shock Dog and the Bichon Maltaise, has been an aristocrat of the canine world for more than twenty centuries.

An historical palace now a five star luxury hotel — this is the place to escape into the old world 18th century world of decor where the English grand tour was conducted by the aristocrats of England.

In turn, the young British aristocrats of the 18th and 19th centuries went to Greece and Rome and were disappointed to find unwashed peasants instead of the classical magnificence they thought they'd find there.

At the heart of Villa Des Indes I is the magnificent living pavilion — a centuries - old elaborately carved teakwood joglo, once the home of a Javanese aristocrat and believed to be the best preserved in Bali.

, the chapel of the aristocrats who owned the 16th century palace in past ages.

The Location Set in the heart of Venice next to Palazzo Grassi on Canal Grande, Palazzina Grassi is housed in a 2,800 square metre 16th century building, former home to aristocrats.

Set in late 18th century England, we follow the story of Lady Cornelia Darkmoor, a beguiling young aristocrat who masquerades as the notorious highwaywoman, Shadowhand.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

The dishware with sourced forms and patterns from commercially banal Wedgewood to the aristocrat 17th Century Blue and White Pottery are birthing with human - like forms as they reach out to one another with implied movement and free will.

Held at the Byzantine - era Palazzo Malipiero — ground zero for a randy eighteenth - century teen named Giacomo Casanova — the buffet attracted enough boldface personalities to do any tenacious aristocrat proud.

The name «miyabi» was first coined between the 9th to 12th centuries by Japanese aristocrats to refer to the theme of elegance and refinement.

New 18th century French interior design style is inspired by the beauty of charming French interiors in luxurious palaces and the elegance of the 18th century country homes of aristocrats.

This ship - shaped piece perfectly straddles the line between now and the past, by being quirky while also harking back to early 19th century lights favoured by aristocrats with a love for the sea — check out some National Trust homes like Castle Ward for some more inspiration; you'll be surprised how well the study's similar chandelier to this one works in a country manor as it does in this cool modern home.