Sentences with phrase «great eighteenth»

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

It was Robert Burns (1759 — 1796), the great eighteenth - century Scottish poet, who transformed the old verses into the version we know today.

Some of these meticulous images not only enthralled a nature - curious public more than 100 years ago but also instigated a taxonomic revolution by the great eighteenth - century botanist Carl Linnaeus.

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Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high - school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.

But we would aim to make as great a contribution to the salvation of the world in this new century as Wesley made in England in the eighteenth century and Methodism made in the United States in the nineteenth century as it spread scriptural holiness across the land.

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.

Understood in this sense, «revivalism» is not properly to be associated with great evangelical leaders of the eighteenth century like Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, or John Wesley.

The two great movements which revolutionized Judaism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the Haskalah, or enlightenment, and Hasidism.

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.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

During the great awakenings of the eighteenth century, John Wesley and George Whitefield stopped cooperating with one another due to differing beliefs about predestination.

Karl Polanyi's book, The Great Transformation, shows what happened in eighteenth century England.

Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth century established the New England theology, closely related to the Great...

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.

Thus eighteenth - century Polish nobles could be viewed as liberal while the supposedly liberal Voltaire can be faulted for having congratulated Catherine the Great on her invasion of Poland to put down anarchy and insure religious freedom!

Corruption is a great word, a political word with a precise meaning in eighteenth - century discourse even though its use has become narrowed and debased with us.

France was lacerated by the wars of religion leading to an apparent victory of Catholicism, but it experienced a great popular reformation in the eighteenth century with the Enlightenment, Voltairianism and the Encyclopaedia.

«38 By the 1760s, however, this ethical unity no longer obtained because Puritan theology itself contained the seeds of pluralism; the Great Awakening was but the early eighteenth - century flowering of those seeds, leading to religious diversity in New England.

As in the eighteenth century, many aspects of the revolution appeared first in Great Britain, where an extreme form of Protestantism was potent.

Or read the account of God's beneficence in the institution of «the great variety throughout the world of men's faces, voices, and handwriting,» given in Derham's Physico - theology, a book that had much vogue in the eighteenth century.

Evangelicalism, as I define it, is a renewal movement within historic Christian orthodoxy with deep roots in the early Church, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and the great awakenings of the eighteenth century (and it includes puritanism, pietism, and pentecostalism, as well as fundamentalism).

This is the eighteenth year for Central Market's «Hatch Chile Fiesta» at all their stores, and they're doing a great job promoting our favorite fruit!

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.

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?

On my eighteenth birthday, my mom gifted me a necklace that belonged to my great grandmother on the «Blair» side of the family (and now you know where I got my name).

James Cook's three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery.

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.

They had come to the Ukraine at the end of the eighteenth century at the invitation of Russia's Catherine the Great, lured by the promise of religious freedom, exemption from military service, the right to own land and to speak German in school and church.

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.

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

«Pierre Gouthière (1732 — 1813) was one of the greatest French artists of the eighteenth century.

The sample consists of 111 pieces begins with the great painters of the eighteenth century topographical and runs Romanticism, Prerrafaelismo, and Impressionism, to the avant - garde and modernism of the last century, showing the vitality of the landscape genre in the XXI century.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

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.

«The remarkable turn of the climate of Europe towards greater warmth from soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century and affecting all seasons of the year in the 1730 ′ s seems to have produced little comment at the time, though by then the temperatures were being observed with thermometers and entered into regularly maintained observation books in a number of places.»

The first and by far the greatest help to reading is the compulsory hyphening that makes a single adjective out of two words before a noun: eighteenth - century painting / fleet - footed Achilles / tumbled - down shack / Morse - code noises / single - stick expert.