Sentences with phrase «late eighteenth century»

In late eighteenth century England, Dido Elizabeth Belle is born to a white British admiral and a black Caribbean slave.

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

Inspired by traditional late eighteenth century antique Welsh dressers, our Powys Dresser makes a fantastic repository for your family treasures.

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.

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

Economism could not have replaced nationalism had it not been well developed theoretically and practically for a long time, especially since the industrial revolution and the rise of modern economic theory in the late eighteenth century.

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

In Rorty's view, it was a slow and painful accommodation to the ideas of the Enlightenment, which found their emblematic expression in the France of the late eighteenth century.

But here, too, Kagan tends to focus on extremes, claiming that the commitment of America's founders to international law and diplomacy reveals a «psychology of weakness» that reflects the young nation's lack of power in the late eighteenth century; likewise, the secret yearning of the Founders to beat the Europeans at power politics pointed toward a properly imperial future.

This resistance led to the formation, in the late eighteenth century, of several mission societies independent of ecclesiastical and church control.

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

Modern economic theory originated in the late eighteenth century and accepted the metaphysics of the day.

Today many cultures acknowledge (at least superficially) the supreme value of personal freedom and of human rights, but this dates only from the Declaration of Human Rights during the French Revolution of the late eighteenth century.

During the parliamentary struggle to curtail the British slave trade in the late eighteenth century, Lord Melbourne sounded much like the U.S. Supreme Court today when he huffed on one occasion, «Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade public life.»

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

2:2 — «The pure milk of the word of the sociological Gospel, perfected in the late eighteenth century has gone sour» («The Study of the Past» in ESP 155).

White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

In the late eighteenth century the Church faced the challenges of The Age of Reason and new theologies: Thomas Paine's direct attack on the Christian Church; Elihu Palmer and the Deistic Society; the ruggedness of the frontier in the push West; the work of the Baptists, the Congregationalists, the Presbyterians, the Methodists and others.

Pepper cultivation was established in Hungary during the Turkish occupation of that country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — but it wasn't until the late eighteenth century that paprika gained widespread acceptance as a spice in Hungarian foods.

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.

It was axiomatic in the republican tradition prior to the late eighteenth century that republics had to be small.

The other threat to republican virtue in the late eighteenth century, which formed a point of contention especially in the American context between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, was the sheer size of the territorial state.

Among the most prominent political theorists of the late eighteenth century were William Blackstone, John Locke, and Montesquieu.

The Sherwani originated in South Asia and was the court dress of nobles of the royals of India, before being more adopted in the late eighteenth century.

A reworking of Errol Flynn's 1933 adventure, «In the Wake of the Bounty,» Lloyd's version tells the story of the successful mutiny of part of the crew, which took place in the late eighteenth century in the South Seas.

As one of the oldest public universities in the country, the University of North Carolina has been granting degrees and licenses to students since the late eighteenth century.

The term horsepower was adopted in the late eighteenth century.

Some sources suggested that in the late eighteenth century, few bodies remained in the black sections of New York cemeteries.

In the late eighteenth century, a scientist named Luigi Galvani performed an experiment on a frog, making a slight cut just beneath the frog's skin to expose nerve cells.

Though the Company formed in 2012, its heritage dates back to the late eighteenth century.

This is a clever reconstruction of Acadian life from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, and brings together more than forty historical buildings, saved from destruction elsewhere.

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

The historic Audubon Cottages date back to the late eighteenth century and offer a truly one - of - a-kind experience for small weddings or events.

This settlement is believed to be the location of Fort McLoughlin, an important post during the Maritime Fur Trade for the Hudson's Bay Company in the late eighteenth Century.

The early «settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras» grew from a few habitations located at Belize Town and St George's Caye into a de-facto colony of the United Kingdom during the late eighteenth century.

Historically, the octobass is a larger version of the double bass and there are at most only four octobasses in the world, two of them were created in the late eighteenth century and are now in museums in Paris and the US.

A «phantasmagoria» was a pre-cinematic theatrical show, devised in France in the late eighteenth century, which gained popularity throughout Europe in the nineteenth century.

The earliest paintings in the Zimmerli's collection date to the late eighteenth century, when the United States and Rutgers University — then called Queen's College — were in their infancy.

Contemplating Character explores the evolution of portraiture from the late eighteenth century to the contemporary, reflecting the many styles and movements during this wide expanse of time.

The Terra Foundation collection comprises 731 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures dating from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century by artists such as John Singleton Copley, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper.

Thomas Malthus was writing about these things since the late eighteenth century.

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.

Early developers industrialized in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth centuries and their per - capita emissions over more than 200 years add up to more than those of the late developers, like China.

Annual global emissions have been increasing since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century, when humans first began burning fossil fuels on a large scale to produce energy.

O'Conner and Kellerman say that «by the late eighteenth century, contractions were in disgrace, tolerated in speech but an embarrassment in writing» because elites on both sides of the Atlantic thought them «harsh - sounding, vulgar, low class, ill mannered, or overly familiar.»

Founded in the late eighteenth century, it has come a long way and is one of the leaders of this trade in the country.