Sentences with phrase «from eighteenth century»

The rule comes from the eighteenth century, in which copies of documents were typically handwritten by scribes, who could easily make errors.

From the eighteenth century to present, 49 individual burned sites were recorded corresponding to six scar - dated and tree - ring cross-dated fires, i.e. 1750, ca 1850, ca 1900, 1906, ca 1924 and 1943.

In each work, a blue mirrored, hand - blown glass gazing ball — a convention from eighteenth century garden design — reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture in order to multiply sensory experience.

The Helen Chadwick Archive forms a part of the Henry Moore Institute Archive of Sculptors» Papers, which comprises over 260 collections containing a diverse range of material relating to British sculptural practice from the eighteenth century to the present day.

It includes works from the eighteenth century to the present day.

They will be in dialogue withimportant works from eighteenth century Italy, and nineteenth centuryFrance.

From eighteenth century museums to sculpted Greco - Roman warriors and Gothic Cathedrals, Nolan attends to their grandeur and authority in a way that is at once fascinated, resentful and inappropriate.

A sense of uncanniness is played out in our recognition of the scenes, taken from the eighteenth century Fragonard series, «Progress of Love,» and here given the Shonibare treatment — headless figures with skin colour of indeterminate origin are clad in the colonial Dutch wax fabrics.

In the artist's words: «Part of the liberating thing about making some of these figures over the porn was to accept the sort of crappy way that I paint compared to somebody from the eighteenth century.

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 museum's second - floor galleries feature American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the eighteenth century to the present.

Inspired by gardens and their varying importance from the eighteenth century onward, she distills nature to find the place where it intersects with culture.

For lovers of elegant Neo-classicism, there were incisive portraits by Ingres from the eighteenth century and early nude studies by Degas from the nineteenth century, plus for dessert, a gorgeous, urgently scribbled Seurat of a silhouetted colt, c. 1882 — 1883.

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.

Locke in America will be the first book to tell the extraordinary story of Locke's transatlantic influence from the eighteenth century until today.

A recent workshop in Stockholm brought together work as varied as West European attitudes to Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to 1989, Israeli students» knowledge of the Palestinian areas of the country, the conflicting mental maps of 20th century Lebanon, mental maps of Europe based on quantitative evidence from surveys of European and extra-European students, and comparative work on mental maps in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

For this reason, Lenin urges the distribution of «militant atheist literature» from the eighteenth century.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Born from Thomas Robert Malthus» famous late - eighteenth - century Essay on Population, this was the novel view that humanity itself amounted to a kind of scourge or pollution whose pressure on fellow members would lead to catastrophe.

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....

These three basic paradigms of evangelicalism derive then from the period of the Reformation centered in the sixteenth century, the «awakenings» of the eighteenth century, and the fundamentalist / modernist controversies of the last hundred years or so.

The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.

Just a few miles south of my home, charcoal from local chestnut fired the historic iron forge Catoctin Furnace, a major source of nineteenth - century pig iron for a young nation's Industrial Revolution — and before that, for eighteenth - century cannonballs for our founding political revolution.

Haute couture comes from a time and a place: the late eighteenth century, in the courts of France and England.

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.»

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

The fifth period was the third advance, from about A.D. 1500 to about the middle of the eighteenth century.

A brief recession followed, as the sixth period, from about the middle of the eighteenth century until A.D. 1815.

A more important discovery was made in 1937 at Man, the capital of an extensive Amorite kingdom stretching in the eighteenth century B.C. from near Babylon in the east to Syria in the west.

Likewise, the (Protestant) Whig narrative of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries emphasized increasing freedom from superstition (i.e. Catholicism) and from bondage to a foreign potentate (i.e. the pope).

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

(As Joshua Reynolds put it in the eighteenth century, «There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking») However, we can keep this problem from getting out of hand if we remember that different kinds of statements are verified in different ways.

They do not even think about the fact that their being scandalized by alienation, oppression, and repression does not spring from the French revolution in 1789 and the eighteenth - century philosophers, nor from Greek thought (which is completely foreign to freedom, in spite of what has been said on the subject!)

In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth century microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, in the nineteenth Darwin's biology all grotesquely extended the world - frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche where even now neurology is cruelly harrying them, gouging them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under a lumber pile.

Through the shadows of such a ghastly phantasm listen to the words of Joseph Priestly, a clergyman, chemist, and liberal reformer, writing on the glories of modern technology from his vantage of the eighteenth century:

This is a «declaration of independence» that the urbane, cosmopolitan, aristocratic eighteenth - century liberal Thomas Jefferson probably never conceived of, much less intended, but it is a working out of the «right of expatriation from the past.»

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

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?

In the period of stagnation and reverse that came in the eighteenth century, revivals were beginning to appear which were to swell into the stream from which issued the major part of the extension of the faith in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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.

A further aspect of Irish interest was due to the large scale immigration from there to Scotland that began in the eighteenth century and has continued intermittently even to the present.

James's empiricism arose, then, not from contemplation of the external world, nor from some sober revision of eighteenth century British empiricism.

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?

Political economists first divorced economics from theology at the end of the eighteenth century, and economists of the nineteenth century went on to free it from political theory.

The Portuguese Archbishop Menzes did his best to create a sense of evangelistic responsibility among the Indian Christians by preaching to the Hindus whenever he could, and the eighteenth - century Carmelites had a number of baptisms from the heathen every year, so much so that they had to defend their actions before the Raja of Travancore, but the Indian Church itself was not (L. W. Brown, op.cit., p. 173.)