Sentences with phrase «nobility as»

All privileges and immunities of the German nobility as a legally defined class were abolished on August 11, 1919 with the promulgation of the Weimar Constitution, recognising all Germans as equal before the laws of their country.

The Bolognese dog breed was prized by nobility as long ago as the 11th century, and many Bolognese can be seen in old paintings.

The Mastiff was favored by nobility as a hunting companion and revered by peasants as a family and livestock protector.

The elegant black glass Schnauzer wags its tail with as much nobility as it can muster.

Lowden is a remarkable blend of innocence and determination, giving Tommy's budding romance with Meg Drinnan (Ophelia Lovibond), a local waitress a few years his elder, the quality of both blind folly and of unexpected nobility as he remains loyal to her despite Meg's misgivings, and, worse, the disapproval of his pious mother.

Roman nobility as Nietzsche means it wasn't exactly a product of philosophy, but Nietzsche's conviction that preserving nobility was only possible in the contemporary world via philosophy ought to be considered, I think, in light of his profound uneasiness and careful treading around the problem of the «actor's faith» that characterizes «really democratic ages.»

There is no activity so humble that it can not take on an intimidating nobility as soon as it is associated with citizenship.

As the natural end of temporal existence in Narnia, death was always to be anticipated and accepted with as much nobility as one could muster.

Not exact matches

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But the way it borrows from TRUE GRIT still make it seem as if it means to be the new TRUE GRIT, just as the Coen brothers aimed to replace Portis» message about necessity and nobility with their own.

He's going to find his place there, as a man of his natural gifts and habitual nobility can find it anywhere.

Muchembled explains both the development of dueling among the nobility and rural revolts against the centralization of authority as reactions against state repression of traditional codes of violence: «In each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.»

Its author was born in Florence into a family of minor nobility, Guelph in its political alignment and thus siding with the popes in the city's political tensions (as opposed to Ghibellines, at the time mainly banished from Florence, who favored the imperial cause).

For this pope, the natural sciences — the Italian Volta, the Swede Linnaeus, the Englishman Faraday — «reached as high a degree of nobility and brilliance as we ever see in man».

The findings fly in the face of the classic account of the life of Saint Patrick, who grew up as a member of the Roman nobility in western Britain and was supposedly abducted and forced into slavery in Ireland around 400 A.D..

A number of the nobility, the millionaires, the highest dignitaries, etc., can through the use of the numerical quite as readily become the mass.»

In some societies the line of division was not drawn so clearly between men and the animals, as between the nobility and the peasantry, the latter being treated with much the same attitude as the animals.

As Furet explains, «The movement to stop Hitler gave communism its most glorious moment and its militants whatever nobility illusion could allow.»

Election is hers not because of any intrinsic goodness and nobility of her own, but rather, as it would appear, despite the deviousness of her ways, in the grace and purpose of God.

The nobility of philosophy serves him as the anchor of virtue and excellence more generally.

Although they were never able to make France a Calvinist country (as their coreligionists did in Scotland and elsewhere), they did in the 1560s and 1570s attract between 7 and 10 percent of the French population, including a slight majority of the nobility, as well as seven of the 114 Catholic bishops.

However, as time passed and long before the appearance of Protestantism, monarchs began to overcome the feudal nobility.

The words chosen neither transgress by their banality nor by their extreme rarity, but are recognized as expressing admirable nobility.

If Christianity is skittish at best about familial nobility and not just dignity, as a pridefully creative project of life - defining meaning, is it not remarkable that the most venomous and blatant of the anti-Christian philosophers is so circumspect and muted on the matter?

The total political accomplishment of David still stands as a nearly incredible feat, and let no one be so naive as to suppose that this kind of performance is carried out anywhere, in any time, by unadulterated goodness and nobility of character.

Believers use the word «spirituality» for this feeling and attribute the concepts of beauty, love, nobility, altruism, etc as manifestations of the divine.

Both the nobility and the tragedy of heroes such as Achilles and Hector are set against a background of meaningless flux.

Of the nobility, as were also de Tocqueville and Lord Acton, he showed himself a true liberal in thought, word, and deed, one deeply

Indeed, inhumanity is perhaps the great theme of Russian literature: War, political devastation, and the savage perversities of the Russian character are nearly always present as the backdrop — at its best, a backdrop for courage, kindness, generosity, sweetness, and nobility.

In the great hymns and spirituals of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as in «There is a balm in Gilead / to make the wounded whole,» and «Swing low, sweet chariot, / comin» for to carry me home,» he finds «a directness and a fervor of utterance and humility which involves man's nobility and, to me, a spark of divinity.»

Reston expected great things from the mighty, not only muscle and heart but also some piety and nobility of spirit; and yet when they failed him, as they most often did, he did not damn them but rather foresaw signs of redemption and hope [p. 9].

The distinguished historian of philosophy Emil Fackenheim, whose work as a post-Holocaust theologian led him to care deeply about Jewish peoplehood, writes bitterly of Spinoza's slander of Judaism as a betrayal of his celebrated disinterestedness and nobility.

Neither the rich nor the nobility (increasingly, as trade and commerce grew, these were not necessarily the same) could trust one another.

For about six years Nikon appeared to be attaining his goal, but as was to be expected, he met vigorous opposition from many of the nobility, clergy, and monks.

It sought to prohibit the chronic fighting of the nobility over the week - end and during Advent and Lent as hallowed by events associated with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

I must refrain from saying more about it until we arrive again at a proper understanding of what the Mass is and what it is for... I am not speaking of the old foundations which were established for the children of the nobility... I am speaking of the new foundations...» There were too many, and as things were at these smaller places their incumbents all got reduced to «anthem singers, organ wheezers and reciters of decadent, indifferent Masses».

As the final sheets of the Open Letter to the Nobility were going down to the printer in the first days of August, Luther was already making notes for this next communication.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

His heroes include Thomas Mann, Socrates, Spinoza, Dostoevsky, Herzen, and Camus, and he presents them to us here as if they were all members of the same fan - club» agreed in all essentials about the nature of truth, free inquiry, and nobility of spirit.

Chocolate soon became a fashionable drink about the same time as coffee of the European nobility after the discovery of the Americas.

However, rather than devaluing the role of motherhood, he spoke of a mother's love as the height of nobility.

Victoria is a name that brings with it refinement and nobility, as well as glamor, of course.

This name began as one that was given to baby girls of high nobility in Western and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

John's actions created an alliance of clergy and nobility that insisted on protection for the English Church as Clause 1 of Magna Carta.

Another is dualistic, that is, the acceptability and even nobility of dividing the world between friend and foe and killing as many of the enemy as possible.

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

He called on the union to embrace quality control mechanism as to rid the profession of quackery, extortion and unwholesome practices that has eroded it's nobility, and dignity in a way.

This dress may be the best choice as the evening dress with its gentleness and nobility.

Suffused with nobility, she declares the slaves, including Danny Glover as a bow - tied patriarch and Issach De Bankolé as a scowling rebel, to be free, and she turns their former overseers into indentured workers.