Sentences with phrase «of eighteenth century»

This imposing fireplace surround is an authentic reproduction of eighteenth century French style.

Where the conditions of the eighteenth century in pre - and post-revolutionary France and in what is now the United States currently exist — in Iran, China, Russia, and other authoritarian regimes — it may well be the path of prudence to act anonymously if one can, but those conditions do not apply in Canada, the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world.

«Others reveal some misunderstandings of the eighteenth century, and then there might be unconscious ideological distortions.»

The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution's large - scale coal - burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

«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.»

He rivals Leonhard Euler, the Swiss genius of the eighteenth century.

``... Prof. D. Brunt referred to the diagrams showing the gradual rise of temperature during the last 30 years, and said that this change in mean temperature was no more striking than the changes which appear to have occurred in the latter half of the eighteenth century» p 238

Industrial Revolution - A period of rapid industrial growth with far - reaching social and economic consequences, beginning in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century and spreading to Europe and later to other countries including the United States.

Emphasis was on the major draftsmen of the eighteenth century, including William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Hogarth.

In its earliest forms in the middle of the eighteenth century — the Salon of the Académie des Beaux - Arts in Paris and the exhibiting societies of London — the exhibition was a collective affair, organized among artists: a form of self - assessment and public presentation mediating between a guild of merchant craftsmen and the unstable fractions within the public that might provide a market for those artists» work.

Decorative Art and Sculpture The Museum holds an unmatched collection of English silver and porcelain, along with a range of historically significant 18th century French decorative art in the rococo style 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.

Hogg paints monumentally scaled versions of the eighteenth century French artists Antoine Watteau's paintings, Gilles, in highly chromatic and -LSB-...]

The hard points, with their durable, clear thin strokes were especially suited to the purposes of Neoclassical and Romantic draftsmen of the eighteenth century.

At Firstsite, seventy cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe.

His technical achievements became a paradigm for British art for the whole of the eighteenth century, and his later works in particular influenced the near abstract compositions of the next generation of British artists.

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

THE ART - HISTORICAL CATEGORY of «late work,» which emerged around the end of the eighteenth century, has itself begun to show signs of age.

Here, 100 cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe, put to work as ceramicists, herbalists, toy makers, dog trainers, viola da gamba players, drummers, dancers, shoemakers, map makers and...

Here, 100 cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe, put to work as ceramicists, herbalists, toy makers, dog trainers, viola da gamba players, drummers, dancers, shoemakers, map makers and painters.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

Appartamento Isabella is a charming apartment that is part of a villa of the eighteenth century located in a large historical garden directly above the sea.

They evoke the elegant French style mansions of the eighteenth century.

Deep within the bowels of the city are the bones of more than six million Parisians, the result of overcrowded cemeteries at the end of the eighteenth century.

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.

My own take is that these dogs are nothing more than aberrant pointer or pointer - setter crosses that became fashionable running along coaches of country gentlemen in England during the middle part of the eighteenth century.

Middle School / YA Katherine Kellgren's vocal athleticism takes listeners from the filthy streets of eighteenth century London to the high seas in L.A. Meyer's fast - paced novel about a girl who stows away as a cabin boy.

I have completed a literary, historical novel, The Tremble of Love, inspired by the life of an eighteenth century mystic, rabbi and healer known as the Baal Shem Tov.

While there are plenty of biographies that chronicle the political lives of eighteenth century Russian aristocracy, few labor to uncover the private, personal lives of those individuals.

Having sustained a long interest in the life of Catherine's contemporary, Marie Antoinette, I was excited to see a biography of an eighteenth century female political figure receive strong publicity.

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.

Beginning in the latter decades of the eighteenth century, Australia was the destination of boatloads of British criminals.

In the second half of the eighteenth century, chamber music, which was played by ensembles (small groups of musicians and thus suitable for smaller rooms), became very fashionable.

The first formal collection of short stories using narrative prose was published in around 1810 although numerous individual short stories had begun being published in the last years of the eighteenth century.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Indeed, while republicans had tied the rise of self - interest to a negative story of change and corruption, in this nascent language of political economy of the eighteenth century, individuals» pursuit of their private interest was thought to be consistent not just with social and political order, as Albert O. Hirschman argued in The Passions and the Interests, but with social and political progress.

Linda Kelly has written several books on the political and social life of eighteenth century Franco - British relations and she returns to this theme in her forthcoming book in the New Year, Talleyrand in London The Master Diplomat's Last Mission (I B Tauris).

Some have argued that the kind of moral vision upon which these revolutionaries rested had fragmented by the end of the eighteenth century.

These two were named by Adelaide, Annabel and Harper (having rejected my continuation of the eighteenth century British female literary characters naming theme as «boring, mom, boring»).

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

Consequently came the widespread reaction against the whole ethos of the eighteenth century, during which the churches tended to turn back to the dogmatic formulations of classical Protestantism for theological structure.

Rousseau in the earlier years of his writing, Diderot, B. de Saint Pierre, and many of the leaders of the eighteenth century anti-christian movement were of this optimistic type.

Possibly it is to be found in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the neoclassicism of the Enlightenment was beginning to give way to the Romantic, which is to say the modern, sensibility.

With the middle of the eighteenth century humanitarianism and philanthropy began to flourish as never before.

Revivalism beginning at the end of the eighteenth century rescued the Church from deism and indifference, finding an answer to the question of how to present the judgment and redemption of God, but also limiting their message and binding it to emotionalism.

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).

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

By the end of the eighteenth century, the twin challenges of the natural sciences, along with their philosophical interpreters, and of scientific historical study profoundly challenged the credibility of received forms of Christian faith.

One lasted roughly from about the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century.