Sentences with phrase «of nineteenth»

By the close of the nineteenth century the revolution in Western civilization was mounting.

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

Those words appear increasingly appropriate when we think further of the progress of the study of the history of pre-Christian and non-Christian religions in the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Croce contrasted the «democracy of the eighteenth century as mechanical, intellectualist, and abstractly egalitarian, whereas the «liberalism» of the early nineteenth century was personal, idealistic, and historically organic: «The democrats in their political ideal postulated a religion of quantity, of mechanics, of calculating reason or of nature, like that of the eighteenth century; the liberals, a religion of quality, of activity, of spirituality, such as that which had risen in the beginning of the nineteenth century: so that even in this case, the conflict was one of religious faiths.

A feature of the religious history of the nineteenth century was the diffusion of Christianity among non-Christians.

Although the moral and intellectual tone of many left much to be desired, in the course of the nineteenth century under the inspiration of clerical headmasters marked improvement was seen.

By the end of the nineteenth century Protestantism was represented by growing constituencies in new nations which were arising from immigration and which by 1914 were self - governing dominions within the British Empire.

In France were reported the most famous of the appearances of the Virgin Mary of the nineteenth century — in 1846, to two young shepherds on the plateau of La Salette in Savoy, and in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl, in a grotto near Lourdes, which became a shrine where miracles of healing were reported.

By the beginning of the nineteenth century... judges were abandoning the notion that they should adhere rigidly to precedent... [The difference] was less in what the courts did than in their understanding of what they properly could do....

But this does not mean that the divine and exalted Jesus of nineteenth century theologians is outdated and irrelevant for contemporary contextual theology in India.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

But that Rameses II, known also as Rameses the Great (or for that matter any other Pharaoh of the Nineteenth or Eighteenth Dynasty), put himself at the head of his entire complement of chariotry (14:6 - 7,9) in execution of such a task without leaving in any Egyptian records an account of such an event seems to many interpreters improbable.

The most notable of philanthropists of the nineteenth century was John Davison Rockefeller (1839 - 1937).

The three trailblazers of this nineteenth century attempt at Indian Christian theology all appear to have been influenced by the teachings of the Brahma Samaj, even though they initiated their movements in different parts of the country:

The second, much briefer, was from the mid-eighteenth century into the second decade of the nineteenth century.

If theology of any sort is to have the energy and vitality today that European theology has had in its great periods in the past, it must respond to the new situation now as effectively as it responded to the challenges of the nineteenth century.

Although the United States by tradition was prevailingly Protestant, at the beginning of the nineteenth century only a small proportion, said to have been about seven in a hundred, were members of churches.

The revolution in Western civilization — it had begun at least as far back as the Renaissance and had shaken much of Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and the opening decades of the nineteenth century — had several aspects.

Even when liberalism became so widespread among the educated classes, as it did by the end of the nineteenth century, that it was almost taken for granted, it was by no means securely institutionalized among the masses, as the rise of socialist, Catholic and fascist parties uncertainly or not at all committed to democratic institutions would subsequently show.

Politically, by the end of the nineteenth century Great Britain had erected an empire on which, so the boast was made, the sun never set.

(In the course of the nineteenth century interest in hermeneutics continually diminished, and lectures on hermeneutics disappeared from the lecture lists.

The temperance movement brought a reduction in the heavy drinking of the eighteenth and the fore part of the nineteenth century.

Carter notes that many in the early heyday of the new university at the end of the nineteenth century felt that science on a large scale would require socialistic government on a large scale.

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

Regardless of one's own beliefs, there is something undeniably satisfying about the fact that the world of classical music at the end of the twentieth century is dominated by three men who can say of tonality what G. K. Chesterton said of his rediscovery of religious faith: «I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.

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.

[Woodman 1991,113] Nonetheless, it is also clear that the Catholic English teacher needs to challenge the dominance of the nineteenth century realist novel in the classroom if he is to remain true to his Catholic principles.

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

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.

Since the dalit communities are spread all over India except in its North - Eastern region and their culture is richly diverse I restricted my study to the religion and culture of the dalits in Andhra Pradesh.7 And for further clarity and convenience it had been confined to the one prevalent in the second half of Nineteenth century and first half of Twentieth century.

His Les fleurs du mal (1857), or The Flowers of Evil, is the most famous book of nineteenth - century French poetry and one of the most famous in world literature.

And from «Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth - Century Geology by Adelene Buckland, University of Chicago Press, p. 99:

This poetic glory — Verlaine was one of the great poets of the nineteenth century — came at an extortionate price.

The cultured scorn of a Celsus and the coarse ribaldry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are at one in this.

There was nothing which resembled the closely integrated monastic orders which were so prominent in the later propagation of the faith, or the countless missionary societies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The figure of Simonini unites the farraginous mass delusions of the latter half of the nineteenth century into a single tale; and what draws his otherwise pointless and vagrant existence into a unity is the slow gestation, over the course of his life, of the Protocols.

Literary critics called him the most Christian poet of the nineteenth century.

This first approach to dealing with miracles was especially identified with «liberal» scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

Though he's on the books as one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century — both for photographing the leading French writers of his era and for making advancements in camera technology — Nadar's life spanned a number of diverse occupations, from caricaturist to balloonist.

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

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»

Furthermore, the churches» leaders, while not at the forefront of the intellectual currents of the day, had integrated into their thinking the major cultural changes of the nineteenth century, such as the new historical consciousness, the analysis of society in terms of classes, and biological evolution.

The centers of nineteenth - century culture were by no means surrendered.

Robert Lynn has brilliantly shown how the McGuffy readers purveyed a religious and republican ideology, including a powerful stress on the common good and the joys of participation in the public life, during much of the nineteenth century.12

From the time when the Pope divided the new geographical world between Spain and Portugal until the great missionary expansion of the nineteenth century, it was the firm belief of Christian Europe that the Christian religion of the European pattern must eventually encompass the earth.

During most of the nineteenth century the French took the lead in Roman Catholic missions among non-European peoples.

Possibly no individuals of this period can compare with the «princes» of the nineteenth century but America still has its noted and influential preachers.

During the middle of the nineteenth century Poland came under the German rule.

No mention is made of the heresy of «Americanism» that was condemned as a form of modernism by Pope Leo XIII at the very end of the nineteenth century.