Sentences with phrase «eighteenth centuries when»

With their delicate lines, they resemble scientific drawings like those made by explorers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when they discovered new species of animals.

Not exact matches

Constantly annoying, it becomes openly confusing when he leaps from eighteenth - century Bach to modern discussions of Bach to predecessors of Bach back to Bach.

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....

Zmirak is right that the Church's opposition to «religious liberty» heated up during the eighteenth and nineteenth century — when «religious liberty» was being used to mean the guillotine, the abolition of the clergy, and the disenfranchisement of Church schools.

There have been moments when reason appeared to be absolutized, as in some countries in eighteenth - century Europe.

They would respond when disease struck or when the Indians became restless, but no great outpouring of the Spirit was noticed during the first thirty years of the eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century, when the colonies formed into a nation.

What pain must those words have conveyed when, late in the eighteenth century, the Commonwealth crumbled, and Poland was partitioned by its neighbors, vanishing from the map of Europe for more than a century?

It has not, however, been as prominent in the actual life and thought of religious communities — even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the argument from design was frequently presented by Christian apologists.

The judgment that this was needed was lessened by the discovery by advanced thinkers in the eighteenth century that when all seek their individual benefit, the result produces benefits for the whole society.

Those words appear increasingly appropriate when we think further of the progress of the study of the history of pre-Christian and non-Christian religions in the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Gibbon had felt the energy of Gothic cathedrals when he visited them in the eighteenth century, and had condemned it; Ruskin had praised it in the nineteenth.

Possibly it is to be found in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the neoclassicism of the Enlightenment was beginning to give way to the Romantic, which is to say the modern, sensibility.

Potatoes were introduced into China about the same time but did not become popular until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when French missionaries grew them and touted their importance in feeding the masses.

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?

Edmund Burke, the radical eighteenth century politician, hack and philosopher, redeemed himself in the opinion of his more conservative contemporaries when he criticised the excesses of the French Revolution.

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.

Jeremy Bentham, eighteenth - century English philosopher and social reformer, hit the nail on the head when he said, about all animals, «The question is not, Can they reason?

Shorty's present - day narrative switches back and forth with an historical plotline set in the eighteenth century, when Touissant l'Ouverture, a former slave, led Haiti in the fight for freedom, calling for justice, not vengeance, in the struggle to emancipate the slaves.

In late - eighteenth - century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory.

The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins is set during the eighteenth century in England, the time when King George II and his wife, Queen Caroline, ruled Great Britain.

But upon opening an eighteenth - century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages.

With one of Venice's finest restaurants, a renowned centre for Classical studies, a Renaissance church, and an eighteenth - century musical theatre, Campo San Fantin mirrors many of the Commissario's interests: his passion for food and drink, music and art, Greek and Roman classics — and, when the conductor is found dead in the opera house, crime.

Like much eighteenth - century literature, this romance describes the education of its hero, ending when he has achieved the mature, rather disillusioned, scientific attitude towards life, already visible in Micromégas, and again later in Candide.

A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth - century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman.

The breed acquired its current name during the eighteenth century, when Dutch patriot Cornelis (Kees) de Gyselaer led a rebellion against the monarchy.

The hotel is an old traditional house dating ashlar eighteenth century, when it is part of the Monastery of Santa Catalina, fully restored, retains its architectural services combined with modernos.l Hotel Posada del Monasterio offers luxury spacious and comfortable Standard rooms and Suites, All rooms are spacious, designed around the needs of guests.

A holiday resort since Roman times, Bellagio's rich history is reflected in the town's ancient cobbled streets and stone stairways; a legacy of fine architecture and buildings from Roman to medieval times, then from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century - a time period when Bellagio was under Spanish occupation.

It is filled with silverware, lacqueurware, hilltribe jewellery, a sword collection, an eighteenth century Buddha image, and also with the post, plates, etc., that were discovered when the hotel site was excavated.

He has taken comfort in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when artists knew the value of academic training, heroic subjects, and moral themes.

Beginning in 2003 when he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, Wilson has worked with traditional Venetian glassmakers to produce black glass versions of eighteenth - century style chandeliers and ornate mirrors.

The eighteenth - century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked «It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.»

When presented in the context of dialogue relating to seventeenth and eighteenth century slavery, the term «fieldstone» conjures reflections on oppression and violence.

François Jullien, elucidating a treatise by eighteenth - century painter Fang Xun, writes that «only when both technique and originality are equally «forgotten,» when their mutual opposition is transcended, can the «bland and natural» (pingdan tianran) emerge.»

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.

The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution's large - scale coal - burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.