Sentences with phrase «decade of the nineteenth century»

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

It is interesting that it was not until the second decade of the nineteenth century that they moved out to the frontier.

We are still feeling the effects of three great populist movements that ripped through Southern Baptist life in the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century: Campbellism, Landmarkism, and hyper «Calvinism.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Public education was practically nonexistent until the final decades of the nineteenth century, schools being largely church operated and attended by the well - to - do.

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a black religious movement known as Ethiopianism, with roots in the American - founded African Methodist Episcopal Church, represented one of the first organized expressions of black South African nationalism.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

With newly developed farming techniques and expanded railway networks, however, the final decades of the nineteenth century saw a tremendous boom in the upper Great Plains.

This description of the Christian life was attractive during the early decades of the nineteenth century.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

The revolution in Western civilization — it had begun at least as far back as the Renaissance and had shaken much of Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and the opening decades of the nineteenth century — had several aspects.

The second, much briefer, was from the mid-eighteenth century into the second decade of the nineteenth century.

In the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth century Nonconformists had «academies» which, while not granting degrees, gave fully as good higher education as did the universities at Oxford and on the Cam.

All were discovered in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and all were considered planets until the 1860s, when a tide of discoveries of ever - smaller objects in similar orbits demoted them to the rank of mere asteroids.

The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch» ing dynasty.

Queen Anne Although the Queen Anne for whom this style of architecture is named, reigned in Britain from 1702 to 1714, Queen Anne homes in America were fashionable in the late decades of the nineteenth century.

In fact, he didn't even need a license — a practice that Philadelphia would not embrace until the final decade of the nineteenth century.

It was in this sense that it was first employed by the French Utopian socialist Henri de Saint - Simon, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, when he designated artists, scientists, and industrialists as the elite leadership of a new social order:

But few American painters have followed in the footsteps of Raphaelle Peale, who in the early decades of the nineteenth century produced some hundred exquisite pictures of fruit, cakes and wine (as well as a trompe - l'oeil, Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the picturesque hamlet of Matunuck, Rhode Island emerged as an art colony, rooted more in its location than in a unified style of painting.

The symposium coincided with the O'Keeffe Museum's presentation of «Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph,» an exhibition that developed from our 2006 symposium, which addressed the dialogue between painting and photography that has been constant and ongoing since the invention of the latter in the early decades of the nineteenth century.

New Approaches to Reality From the last decades of the nineteenth century onwards, new styles like Pointillism, Cubism and Expressionism determined the way the Dutch landscape was depicted.

A number of the artists in the exhibition were born in the final decades of the nineteenth century, while the youngest, Beirut - based Dala Nasser, was born in 1990.

Brooklyn Brainery — A Handsome Atlas — Government of the United States of America — «The Amazing and Incredible Statistical Atlases of the United States of America compiled in the final decades of The Nineteenth Century.»

Not exact matches

To put it bluntly, the question is whether we, living in the final decade of the twentieth century, have the patience and the readiness to hear the nineteenth - century Dane out; and hear him out in the way he deemed crucial: to think along and make the content of what he has to say not only the content of our thought, but the content of our lives as well.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

Behind them, they had left the magnificent Anglo - Catholic edifice of St Barnabas, built, with no expense spared, in the late nineteenth century and further glorified over subsequent decades with the addition of rich furnishings: a dazzling reredos in the Italianate style, a fine collection of stained glass, ornate statues and glittering banners.

Here, in the late - nineteenth century, was a man who had spent decades chronicling the pre-history of the United States.

But I do not intend to criticize nineteenth century Indian theology by heaping on it research from the last decade of the twentieth century.

Ibn Abd al - Wahhab converted to his views certain Arab leaders, the Saudi barons of Dar «uya, who dedicated themselves to the realization of his doctrines, Toward the end of the twelfth and for the first two decades of the thirteenth century (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD.)

In a fascinating chapter, originally published nearly four decades ago, Mosse explores the roots of National Socialism in nineteenth «century mysticism.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

Fifteen decades later, the «ancient» photographic methods of the nineteenth century, and the vaporous, alchemical images they render, once again appear «new and mysterious.»

But Arteaga says the exhibition will also introductory works from the nineteenth - century that make clear that Mexican artists» interest in muralism and indigenous culture predated the revolution — in fact, mural - making did not resume until about a decade after the upheaval — while turn - of - the - century works by Mexican artists living in Paris foreshadow the cross-cultural pollination that happened between artists in Mexico, Europe, and the U.S. over the next several decades.

New Focus Gallery Exhibition Reflections: Portrayals of and by African American April 10 - August 19, 2018 In recent decades, the Art Center collection has been enhanced through the acquisition of works by artists from the African diaspora with a focus on works by African American artists of the nineteenth through twenty - first centuries.

New York (February 20, 2018)-- For two decades, this annual event has been the most comprehensive exhibition and sale of important nineteenth - century American landscapes.

An introduction to the volume as a whole sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century forward, and covers the art world's embrace of the medium in recent decades.

This approach of going back to the greats of scholarship, many of them still in copyright, recalls the paperback revolution of the last century, which introduced many, with Harper Torchlight and Beacon Books in hand, to the world of learning through such reasonably priced leading scholarly works of the previous decades back to the nineteenth century.