Sentences with phrase «of french»

It happened in the aftermath of the French Revolution and we can see it gradually taking shape again in our own day.

If, after having had a good nourishing meal in my restaurant and topping it off with a piece of French Silk pie, I decide that the pie was so good that I want six more pieces, that would manifest a secondary, depraved appetite.

The previous November, Pope Benedict had made his views on the position of the French Catholic Church regarding the threatened new legislation absolutely clear.

SECULAR SCIENCES AND SAVING SECULARISM On the second anniversary of the Pope's Regensburg lecture, September 12th 2008, he spoke the following words to a gathering of French political, cultural and Islamic leaders, including the Minister of Culture, the Mayor of Paris and two ex-Presidents.

In this struggle, the major conflict is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.

But in the democratic world that would have led to more compromise by the dominant power, eg England's support of the Scottish Assembly, the USA's recognition of some Native American «reservation» independence, or Canada's political support of French language.

Among Catholics, sustained and sophisticated reflection on social, economic, and political problems stretches back to the time of the French Revolution, when on the night of August 4, 1789, the National Assembly simply abolished the existing order.

Recent converts include Wall Street Journal opinion columnist and native of Iran Sohrab Amari, who announced his conversion on Twitter after the murder by ISIS of French priest Fr.

Following enactment of the French law disestablishing the Catholic Church in 1905 «06, Pope Pius X criticized «the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult» for giving rise to the «absolutely false,... most pernicious error» of the separation of church and state (Vehementer Nos, s. 3).

In the biographies of the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of testimonies regarding the particular beauty of his character.

Plus we look at the life of French theologian - activist Simone Weil and hear from bible scholar supremo NT Wright

Burke came too close to succumbing to a kind of negative absolute momentism — thinking of the French Revolution as the beginning of the end of civilization.

So his hatred of the French Revolution caused him to contribute to romanticism, if in not that big a way.

Zuccotti, it should be noted, falsely contrasts the alleged inaction of Pius XII with the work of Father Marie Benoît, the French Capuchin monk who coordinated the provision of food, shelter, and new identities for thousands of French and Italian Jews.

Throughout the nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic church seemed like an embattled fortress, trying to resist the acids of the French Revolution, nationalism and industrialization.

Ben Franklin was a founding father and banged a lot of French prost - itutes and had STD's.

The ban passed both houses of the French legislature by overwhelming margins earlier this year, and is scheduled to come into effect in the spring.

In the hands of later interpreters, particularly the writers of the French Enlightenment, the Newtonian world - machine was seen as deterministic and self - sufficient, the scene of purposeless and blind forces.

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

Now Spaniards conquered a large portion of the Americas, including the West Indies and the Philippines, and became the ruling classes in these lands; the Portuguese established themselves in a similar position in Brazil and sprinkled themselves along the coasts of Africa and here and there on the shores of India, in the East Indies and in Malacca and Macao; the French planted colonies in parts of North America and the West Indies; the Dutch, with an intermingling of French Huguenots, began a permanent colony in South Africa, and Dutch.

As we saw in the last chapter, the Babylonian Captivity and the Papal schism which brought the Church and its faith into such grave discredit were largely due to the emergence of the French monarchy and to the discontent of rival incipient nationalisms and monarchies with French control.

The verb depouiller and its noun form depouillement are translated throughout as «divest» and «divestment,» though this fails to capture the full meaning of the French which includes such diverse meanings as «to cast off,» «lay aside,» «abandon,» «rid oneself of,» and «to sit off one's clothes.»

The conference at Assumption on «Reintegrating Man» with the help of French Catholic thought was one of the best ever, particularly because I got to have the first and last words.

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

Yet comparison of the two serves as vivid illustration of the French proverb that the more things are the same, the more they differ.

The conference is about the influence of French, Catholic thought on America, and it's fine title is «Reintegrating Man.»

There's a second kind of French envy that's much less common: It is found among certain very admirable American traditionalist Catholics, many of whom are shaped in some measure by the «after virtue» philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Where can I get some of that french fried latte?

And that means we'll have all the leisure we'll need to be appreciative enjoyers of French culture — sitting for example, for hours in cafes in squares graced by cathedrals that were built based on beliefs that no sensible person has anymore.

Tocqueville, everyone knows, wrote about the Americans for the benefit of the French, by showing the French that we're both better and worse than they are.

This set France on a course in Vietnam that led to the first Vietnamese war and, after much slaughter and suffering, to the ignominious defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.

It makes painful reading because, like their German counterparts, they did so little to oppose the deportation of French Jews.

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.

Open Bible depicts a large gold - leafed family Bible open to Isaiah 53, a small tattered copy of a French realist novel, Emile Zola's Joie de Vivre (Joy of Life),) and a snuffed - out candle in the background.

The continuity between the image of the Bible in the painting and the image of the French novel thus lies in its emphasis on the Christ - figure — even more apparent when one considers the subject of the biblical passage depicted in the painting.

One favourite is his rendition of the French carol «Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella» which is sung in both French and English.

He was an early critic of Maoist China, and in The Hall of Uselessness one finds a number of essays criticizing the craven and myopic enthusiasm of French intellectuals for communist China.

The Free Frenchman, written ten years later, has World War II at its core, and considers the behavior of French Catholics at the time.

It is telling that Novak seems to ascribe such teachings to the malign influence of the French.

An Introductionby Fr Keith Beaumont of the French Oratory offers a fine summary of all the chapters of the book.

Once when I showed him an extract from a well - known pastoral letter of a French Bishop, he felt it reflected his own views.

Is our political system becoming as polarized as that of the French Third and Fourth Republics?

You will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens's famous novel of London and Paris in the period of the French Revolution.

The influence of French political thought and continental natural - rights theories were major components of the emerging American political ideology.

But I think it is true to say that nowhere have I made any substantial addition to or alteration of the author's insights and ideas; and to a great extent, especially in the latter part of the book, it was in fact possible to cling closely not only to the sense but also to the wording of the French.

The price which the modern world has paid for the liberation of the French Revolution has been the decay of those organic forms of life which enabled men to live in direct relation with one another and which gave men security, connection, and a feeling of being at home in the - world.

Lest we think all martyrdom is at the hand of right - wing states, we do well to remember the fate of those nuns whose death at the hands of the French Revolution is chronicled by Poulenc in his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.

In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.

Just as John Wesley is often credited with preventing a revolution in England at the time of the French Revolution because he had the working classes sitting in church when they could have been revolting, Britain's faithful and God - fearing serving class had little sense of the potential of social mobility (although this is explored when one of the footmen is accepted as a trainee chef at The Ritz).