Sentences with phrase «over eighteenth century»

Some would question the claim that the public sphere had a robust power of oversight over eighteenth century monarchs and governments.

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Divorce law changed in eighteenth - century England out of concern over the abuse of women.

Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high - school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century an archdeacon, William Paley, takes over the arguments for a divine clockmaker.

The prayers range over the whole of Christian history, including many from the familiar Christian figures (Ignatius, Polycarp, Cyprian), but some from little - known heroes of the faith, Jonas of Beth - Isa (fourth - century Persia), Noel Pinot (eighteenth - century France), Gabra Michael (nineteenth - century Ethiopia), Yona Kanamuzeyi (twentieth - century Rwanda).

Much of the book, in fact, is taken up by a close look at the eighteenth - century debates over the adoption of the Bill of Rights and at the nineteenth - century debates over the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment.

By mid eighteenth century in New Haven, William Livingston rephrased a «Puritan principle» to read «The civil Power hath no jurisdiction over the Sentiments or Opinions of the subject, till such Opinions break out into Actions prejudicial to the Community, and then it is not the Opinion but the Action that is the Object of our Punishment.

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 eighteenth century the customary length of breastfeeding shortened to just over a year.7

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

Back in the eighteenth century, sailors all over the world were falling victim to the life - threatening condition known as scurvy.

Over an opening animation styled after eighteenth - century Japanese woodcut illustrations, a narrator (Courtney B. Vance) relates the legendary history of the «cat - loving Kobayashi clan» and its violent subjugation of dogs.

Named after an eighteenth century Spanish explorer, Galiano was long populated by the indigenous Penelakut people, with archaeological discoveries suggesting over three thousand years of inhabitation.

Whether your heart lies in forging strong diplomatic and trade alliances or reducing your enemies to piles of rubble, Empire: Total War allows you to take over the eighteenth - century world however you choose.

Additionally, the book features little - seen archival imagery of Riley at work over the years; documentation of her recent commissions for St. Mary's Hospital in West London, taken especially for this publication; and installation views of the exhibition itself, installed throughout the three floors of the gallery's eighteenth - century Georgian townhouse located in the heart of Mayfair.

In the artist's words: «Part of the liberating thing about making some of these figures over the porn was to accept the sort of crappy way that I paint compared to somebody from the eighteenth century.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

The Helen Chadwick Archive forms a part of the Henry Moore Institute Archive of Sculptors» Papers, which comprises over 260 collections containing a diverse range of material relating to British sculptural practice from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The number of individual sites burned over the last 100 (twentieth century), 200 (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and 300 years (eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries) was 7, 10 and 32, respectively.

Early developers industrialized in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth centuries and their per - capita emissions over more than 200 years add up to more than those of the late developers, like China.