Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century people»

In the eighteenth century people discovered a way of producing that made individuals far more productive.

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The Jews, in the phraseology of Doctor Ruppin of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, having changed in the eighteenth century from an Oriental people to an Eastern European, have in the last few generations changed from an Eastern European people to a Western European and an American.

As it was, Whitefield became the best - known person in eighteenth - century Britain and America before the American Revolution.

But if such people are actually out there, I suppose that reading the works of a life - affirming thinker from the eighteenth century is far from the worst way that they could spend their time.

The results in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that the faith to which people were called was often more the objective belief that the scriptures were completely true than the deeply personal assurance of God's forgiveness of their sins and the resulting freedom.

Jewish historians used to speak of Moses Mendelssohn, the late - eighteenth - century German Jewish thinker, as the man who single - handedly launched his previously ghettoized people into modernity.

In eighteenth century Europe, for the first time in history, people discovered that it was possible for the economy to grow continuously.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

Japan's Bach boom does, however, have one baffling aspect: how is it possible that melodies and rhythms from eighteenth - century Germany should please people of an entirely alien culture thousands of miles to the east?

Even so, the number of people with serious doubts about the basic Christian concepts and doctrines was still extremely small in the eighteenth century.

De Bruyn then compares Burke's literary strategies to works in contemporary and earlier eighteenth - century genres: satire, georgic poetry, the «letter to an eminent person» genre, and so on.

As the Mezzofanti of his age (Mezzofanti was a polyglot scholar of the eighteenth century, one of the greatest linguists of all times), Humboldt has continued to live in the consciousness of the German people.

Just as implicit faith in science has been called scientism, so this trust and confidence which people put in modernity may be called modernism, a term found as early as the eighteenth century.

But if we recognise the foreignness of the past, and the very different ways in which people in different political settings responded to the pressures of social change and the emergence of more popular forms of politics at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, we may find ourselves able to ask questions of our present — and of our futures — that would not otherwise be asked.

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.

And we actually found ourselves gazing with appreciation at the tufted floormats and thinking, «Wow, people lived well in the eighteenth century!»

Just so Scott was an eighteenth - century Tory gentleman with the glowing nineteenth - century trust in good, loyal, and honest, hardworking people of every rank.

This is a concept of person that contrasts starkly with the discrete, self - determining individual, an artifact of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Western European approaches to modernization that has become closely associated with liberal democracy.Examining the meaning and value of Confucianism in the twenty - first century, the contributors — leading scholars from universities around the world — wrestle with several key questions: What are Confucian values within the context of the disparate cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?

Named after an eighteenth century Spanish explorer, Galiano was long populated by the indigenous Penelakut people, with archaeological discoveries suggesting over three thousand years of inhabitation.

In the eighteenth century, inns were the heart of the local community, a place where people could meet, share news and do business.

Typically, prices range from 18 GBP to 50 GBP per person per night - depending on the season.Built in the early eighteenth century, the B&B boasts three floors and eight rooms, of which six are en - suite.

Originally inspired by an eighteenth - century silk needlepoint by Prudence Punderson entitled The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality (1776 - 83, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford), «Pilgrim» is a cyclical journey which alludes to various aspects of a person's life, presented through the images of women.

Stan Douglas's video work Nu • tka • (1996), features overlapping, historically based monologues of eighteenth - century British and Spanish captains vying for the opportunity to colonize Nootka, only marginally concerned with Indigenous peoples.

In the late eighteenth century industry powered by coal was innovative, in the twenty - first century coal is finished and any government that can not accept that fact is doing a great disservice to its people.

Some people look at him as a great eighteenth - century thinker, writer, and preacher, and that is as far as they go.