Sentences with phrase «of the nineteenth century»

By the end of the nineteenth century there were more than one hundred and forty wineries in the area.

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

It is interesting that it was not until the second decade of the nineteenth century that they moved out to the frontier.

For the most part the relation has been friendly, but the controversy over evolution in the latter part of the nineteenth century led to a cultural change.

, is intended to evoke attention to a great philosopher who lived around the beginning of the nineteenth century and to connect with that philosopher a particular teaching.

He is now recognized as one of the best landscape artists of the nineteenth century.

And that was true even through much of the nineteenth century.

The familiar features of the nineteenth century are being rapidly left behind.

But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

This economic thought models itself on physics, unfortunately the physics of the nineteenth century.

At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.

The social - intellectual side of the nineteenth century had not come their way.

The hope that human society can be made better which inspired much of the Christian activity of the nineteenth century has given way in many Christian quarters to a despair of the world.

There are often simple, low - tech solutions to difficult problems, including some ingenious ones from the great age of engineering in the last half of the nineteenth century.

This description of the Christian life was attractive during the early decades of the nineteenth century.

But it was only in the latter part of the nineteenth century that science and theology came into a conflict of socially serious importance.

Around the beginning of the nineteenth century, the lands of many tribes were taken away under lease to a mining company.

This economic thought models itself on the physics of the nineteenth century.

Eakins» masterpiece, acclaimed as the greatest American painting of the nineteenth century, depicts the famed surgeon Samuel D. Gross as he paused to instruct students at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

In Boxers — the first volume in a two - book set, concluding with Saints (2013)-- about the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century in China, he looses twin voices in harmony and dissonance from opposite sides of the bloody conflict.

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.

Bourne's award - winning historical romances, set at the turn of the nineteenth century in England and on the Continent, showcase Potter's talent for underscoring the emotional depths of captivating characters placed in dramatic situations.

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

Standing in the yard at China Beach, a visitor can imagine the agony and glory of that 4000 - mile trek, and the landscape of those first years of the nineteenth century.

This corresponds to the general principle, made popular in the tradition of nineteenth century German idealism, that self - consciousness occurs in and through other - consciousness.

The work is the solution to a problem that perplexed and defeated many of the great painters of the nineteenth century: how do you paint a mighty canvas outside, en plein air?

An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee — a pseudonym of Violet Paget — is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England.

The movement coalesced during the second half of the nineteenth century as writers in France and Belgium sought a new form of art — one that referenced the visible world as symbols that correlate to ideas and states of mind.

A radical departure in the history of printmaking occurred towards the end of the nineteenth century when the woodcut ceased to emulate these more sophisticated methods and artists began to seek out the very raw quality of the medium that had contributed to its fall from favor two centuries earlier.

Selections from the collection are on permanent display at the museum, offering visitors a small but distinguished group of European and American paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, with special emphasis on French art of the nineteenth century.

Revisiting a mostly forgotten German «manualist» theologian of the nineteenth century seems a most unlikely turn, and yet it is one that Lindbeck's most famous student, Bruce Marshall, has recommended, and others such as Reinhard Hütter, Michael Root, and myself have taken it up as well.

But nothing comes without a price as the residents of Carson City, Nevada soon find out when a book, housing the malevolent spirit of a nineteenth century serial killer, turns up in town and one by one begins feeding on the darkness contained within each of its chosen authors.

The philosopher, George Herbert Mead, was acknowledging this when he wrote in Movements of Nineteenth Century Philosophy that the notion of Order which looms so importantly in modern science and philosophy was taken over from Christian theology.

An openly lesbian avant - garde writer of science fiction, Vernon Lee — a pseudonym of Violet Piaget — is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England.

Poisson was one of the great ichthyologists of the nineteenth century who first came to the attention of the international scientific community for his discovery of the Giant Penguins of Ton Gue Incheek Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Buber has spoken of Kierkegaard and Dostoievsky together as the two men of the nineteenth century who will, in his opinion, «remain» in the centuries to come.

Homophobia may be the most powerful remaining legacy of nineteenth century attitudes about sexuality.

«Emily Dickinson, long acknowledged as one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century, remains an enigmatic figure.

Although many of the theories of catastrophic geological change were argued on fully scientific grounds, by the end of the nineteenth century scientists had come to lump all such theories with religious dogmatism.

A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford is an installation by Sean Lynch exploring the work of nineteenth century stone carvers John and James O'Shea, whose naturalistic renditions of animals and plants are still visible in locations in Dublin and Oxford.

Answer: Not the inhuman machines but «the idea of mankind as an end in itself, the basic idea of the new culture», for it is «the inheritance of the classical idealism of the nineteenth century».