Sentences with phrase «middle of the nineteenth century»

Around the middle of the nineteenth century a young physician named J. Edward Turner decided to devote his life to the treatment of inebriety.

In the middle of the nineteenth century this dream was considered impossible.

The modern world is well aware of the rapid borrowing of occidental culture by the Japanese after the opening of Japan to world commerce by Commodore Perry in the middle of the nineteenth century.

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a devout Hindu, Sri Ramakrishna (1836 — 86) claimed that he had followed not only several Hindu devotional paths, but the devotional practice of a Muslim and then of a Christian and that all led to the same spiritual experience.

Yet until the middle of the nineteenth century the majority of Christians would have regarded the Bible in much the same way as Muslims regard the Qur» an.

Such art seems to have begun its invasion of the churches from as early as the middle of the nineteenth century, when St. Bernadette of Soubirous expressed horror at the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes that supposedly matched her descriptions of her visions of the «Lady.»

About the middle of the nineteenth century Herman Melville, a New Yorker of Dutch descent, published his greatest novel.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century each species was held to have been separately created by God over a few days.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

While Nietzsche wrote in the middle of the nineteenth century, the news of God's demise did not reach American shores until about the 1960s.

In the middle of the nineteenth century coal began to be displaced by oil and later oil has been complemented with natural gas.

From at least the middle of the nineteenth century, such Protestants, from a number of denominations, have been ready to work together in the Sunday school movement, in Bible Societies, in the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations and through a variety of other bodies.

One of the most serious periods of neglect occurred in the middle of the nineteenth century, through the dominance of the historical interest.

In geographic history it antedates the Louisiana Purchase, and demographically it was seriously challenged by the Celtic immigration near the middle of the nineteenth century, not to mention the arrival of millions from Southern and Eastern Europe at the close of the century.

Bonnet pepper, named for its tam - o» - shanter shape and commonly known by the middle of the nineteenth century as Scotch bonnet, was eventually recognized as a distinct species, C. chinense.

Recent Maritime archaeology and technology has found and excavated the remains of the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror sent in the middle of the nineteenth century to discover the northwest passage.

Until now, instrumental temperature records dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century have been compiled by three main research groups: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Greenbelt, Maryland; the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington DC; and a collaboration between Britain's Met Office and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.

As much a physical role as an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The result: «By the middle of the nineteenth century the United States had the most educated youth in the world.»

This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century.

The tale, which begins in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, in the middle of the nineteenth century and then moves to the California Gold Rush, skillfully combines family conflict, romantic love, and true adventure.

The exact date is unknown but indications are that the breed began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Morse Cottage is one of the original stone cottages built by the Burra miners in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Before the industrial revolution took hold in the middle of the nineteenth century, carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere had been relatively stable, according the geological record.

The «Little Ice Age,» a cooling of less than one degree that lasted from the early Renaissance to the middle of the nineteenth century, was small stuff in comparison to the ice ages or the abrupt jumps.

Since the Little Ice Age ended in the middle of the Nineteenth century, we have all got used to the comforts and agricultural advantages (such as being able to grow wheat in more northerly latitudes) of living through a period of global warming.

«Sea level has, since the middle of the nineteenth century, been rising.

«The purpose of this project is to capitalize on the distributed nature of digital information systems to collect, organize and distribute graphic and audio materials associated with music copyright infringement cases in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century on.

The idea that a mother should play the dominant role in child rearing only became prevalent in the middle of the nineteenth century, according to law professor J. Herbie DiFonzo.