Sentences with phrase «eighteenth centuries most»

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Consider, too, eighteenth - century Central European politics, in which most readers are not well versed.

In my judgment, shared by many, he was the most important leader of the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century.

It is not sufficient to distinguish capitalism from the pre-capitalist systems that prevailed everywhere until the end of the eighteenth century and still prevail in most of what is called «the third world.»

But by the time «catechetics,» as the study of instruction, became a theological discipline in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, a curious reversal had taken place, and most of the talk was about dealing with children.

The early - eighteenth - century philosopher Nicolas Malebranche is the Christian most associated with occasionalism.

I remind the reader of Gunter's point above: «Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries matter had been conceived as comprised of passive, simply - located particles whose most fundamental character is their imperviousness to change.

Most Europeans in the eighteenth century were French, Prussian, or English first, and only secondarily Catholic, Lutheran, or Anglican.

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Anyone familiar with most of the notable versions of the tale from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will recognize almost all the standard elements here, however much names and details may shift about in various tellings.

Similarly, it was not Voltaire, the most prominent among the literary critics of Christianity in the eighteenth century, who suggested constructive means by which healing might be effected, but men of the type of Schleiermacher, Maurice, Kingsley, Robertson, Bushnell, Chalmers, Wichern, Rauschenbusch.

The image goes back to the Greeks, but it was given its most complete expression in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the rise of classical physics.

Because the book may be read — and conceivably was sometimes read — as a work of «natural theology», rather as Newton's Principia was read by Cambridge undergraduates for most of the eighteenth century.

All bishops were appointed by the Crown and until the eighteenth century for the most part were from Europe.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries matter had been conceived as comprised of passive, simply - located particles whose most fundamental character is their imperviousness to change.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sending communications to influential men was, for many early female voters, the most effective way of influencing political debate in a period where public speaking was frowned upon.

Get 60 stunning illustrations that were handcrafted in the eighteenth and nineteenth century by scientists to show the world's most fascinating plants and creatures.

In the eighteenth, nineteenth centuries and first half of the twentieth century, a lot of this support came from industry and philanthropy — and we have continued support from those sectors — but for most of the basic science in this country, the Federal government is the hand that feeds us.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

«This edition will enable the curious to get a taste of eighteenth - century American religion and its most celebrated theologian.»

Perhaps the most extreme example of breed morphology is that of the English Bulldog, a breed that emerged from the bull - baiting dogs of eighteenth century Great Britain.

Still, most historical references to the Setter, at least from the eighteenth century on, place him in Ireland, where he was seen as either a red - or white - coated dog, or a mixture of the two.

The historic Audubon Cottages were built shortly after two great fires destroyed most of the city in the late eighteenth century.

In itself, this outstanding natural beauty is sufficient justification for visiting Tremezzo but it is the village's wealth of grand villas and palaces dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that has secured Tremezzo's reputation as one of the most famous and popular destinations in this region of Lake Como.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

Most eighteenth - and early nineteenth - century American painters, however, supported themselves as portraitists.

Historically, the octobass is a larger version of the double bass and there are at most only four octobasses in the world, two of them were created in the late eighteenth century and are now in museums in Paris and the US.

The most recent homage to it, When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013, features an almost 1:1 reconstruction of the show's original floor plan in an eighteenth century Venetian palazzo.