Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century»

Official Premise: A female vampire with lesbian tendencies ravages the young girls and townsfolk of a peaceful hamlet in eighteenth century Europe who, years earlier, killed off her fellow vampires.

This imposing fireplace surround is an authentic reproduction of eighteenth century French style.

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

Potentially never has this been executed as dynamically as with Courtauld Gallery's summer showcase, «Spirit Drawings», a series of works by eighteenth century spiritual medium, Georgiana Houghton.

Fictional or imaginary studios, a popular subject beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, include canvases by James Ensor, Jacek Malczewski, and Diego Rivera; while emphasis on artist's materials can be traced from eighteenth century works by Jean - Baptiste Siméon Chardin; to nineteenth century works by Carl Gustav Carus and Adolph von Menzel; through postwar American artists Jim Dine, Philip Guston, and Jasper Johns.

The increase in the use of the words «fact» and «evidence» from the early eighteenth century coincided with the first significant and sustained increase in economic output per capita in human history.»

During the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, a variety of toy spaniel breeds were very popular in the Courts of Europe.

Similarly the close association of the geographic spread of Christianity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries with the imperial programs of Spain and Portugal and with the absolute monarchies of that period precipitated another crisis when Spain and Portugal became stagnant and absolute monarchies were being shaken by revolution.

The term «sandwich» was first used in eighteenth century England at a gentleman's gaming club in London, and appeared in a newspaper article about John Montague, the fourth Earl of Sandwich.

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel of today is descended from the small Toy Spaniels seen in so many of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century paintings by Titian, Van Dyck, Lely, Stubbs, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Romney.

Parallels appear in profusion over the ancient East and in specifically expanded form in, for example, the Code of Hammurabi of Babylon (eighteenth century B.C.).

Here, too, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries most higher education was initiated by the churches out of concern for a learned clergy.

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.

How eighteenth century.

But Russell Hale spells out the historical reality: «Contrary to popular celebrationist notions of a golden religious age, the seventeenth and eighteenth century American landscape was not dominated by church spires.

Located in a former eighteenth century Carriage House, guest rooms feature a king bed and surround a private courtyard

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the development of the improvisational capriccio and artists such as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi invented variations on fantastic and dramatic themes in printed series.

Deluxe room with Park view: Offering a wonderful view of the Chantilly estate gardens, our Deluxe rooms combine refined French eighteenth century mansions with modern comfort.

According to Wright, the Puritan emphasis on the right of individual interpretation of scripture ironically paved the way for eighteenth century rationalism.

By mid eighteenth century in New Haven, William Livingston rephrased a «Puritan principle» to read «The civil Power hath no jurisdiction over the Sentiments or Opinions of the subject, till such Opinions break out into Actions prejudicial to the Community, and then it is not the Opinion but the Action that is the Object of our Punishment.

References to Francisco Goya's late eighteenth century print They've Already Got a Seat (from the Los Caprichos series) appear through choices in costuming, notably in the upside - down chair affixed directly to Martins's head, and Joseph Beuys is evoked through the props of a felt blanket, wooden cane, and taxidermied animal.

In 2008 the gallery moved from it's original location at 123 State Street to a restored eighteenth century warehouse building on the grounds of Strawbery Banke Museum at 420 Court St.. The Banks Gallery staff is supportive and understanding.

This design, inspired by traditional late eighteenth century antique Welsh dressers, is perfect for displaying china or glassware in a kitchen.

One of the fun things about it are the little wooden trays that pull out that would have been used to set candle holders on — simple eighteenth century lighting!

Subsequent chapters take up the relation between values and suffering in early Christian times, in the enlightened eighteenth century, in the Romantic and Victorian periods, in the Europe of both world wars, and in America.

For Orlando, the odd prominence of the nonfunctional in Western literature after the late eighteenth century signals a Freudian «return of the repressed.»

While a possible reference to camels in a fodder - list from Alalakh (c. eighteenth century BC) has been disputed, the great Mesopotamian lexical lists that originated in the Old Babylonian period show a knowledge of the camel c. 2000/1700 BC, including its domestication.

It is generally forgotten that until the late eighteenth century economics was a branch of ethics.

The twentieth century has brought this lesson home to us in ways never dreamed of in the optimistic eighteenth century.

During the late eighteenth century several preachers in New England insisted that God was not the kind of God who would punish man eternally.

Of the men who later wore the tiara in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries none reached the stature of Pius V, but none disgraced the Church as had the Pontiffs of the tenth, fifteenth, and fore part of the sixteenth centuries.

The absolute monarchies of Europe of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries dominated the Church, but they were professedly Christian.

First, it adopts the recommendations of a clique of eighteenth century oligarchs as a set of guidelines for contemporary institutional design, and second, it casts this as the content of republicanism as such.

Linda Kelly has written several books on the political and social life of eighteenth century Franco - British relations and she returns to this theme in her forthcoming book in the New Year, Talleyrand in London The Master Diplomat's Last Mission (I B Tauris).

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.

Some would question the claim that the public sphere had a robust power of oversight over eighteenth century monarchs and governments.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

The cinematography, editing and sound design are incredible — this is a remarkably realised eighteenth century.