Sentences with phrase «peasant life in»

He is best known for depicting horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

Segantini is most well known for his paintings depicting natural settings, from peasants living in nature to detailed mountain landscapes.

Faced with the options of either staying a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.

The contrasting final chapters, «The Mountain Glory» and «The Mountain Gloom» [70] provide an early example of Ruskin's social analysis, highlighting the poverty of the peasants living in the lower Alps.

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Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the teenagers and the other, «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity including Mormonism, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Paganism, and Christianity by the «hatters», «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life (e.g. Do No Harm).

For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

In the South, of course, among the peasant - farmers, the battle against living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life e.g. Do No Harm.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

A Christian historian tells a true story about a peasant in the 1600's living under the rule of the Catholic Church.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life e.g. Do No Harm.

The parable of the Soil has been called a «parable on parables» because of the life of God that it witness to through an abundant harvest.145 At the arrival of the harvest, the peasant is overjoyed for the opportunity for his involvement in the creative process of producing something.146

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

During the process of growth, there is a reversal in the life process of the peasant and the sown seed.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will converge these religions into some simple rules of life, e.g. DO NO HARM.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life.

Van Gogh remained in the Borinage after the church withdrew its support, and he began his artistic career by making drawings of the simple life of the Belgian peasants.

Recognizing the flaws in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», «kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

In the stars, as well as in the everyday facets of the simple life of the peasants, he felt the presence of the divinIn the stars, as well as in the everyday facets of the simple life of the peasants, he felt the presence of the divinin the everyday facets of the simple life of the peasants, he felt the presence of the divine.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» should converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

the dalits and the peasants who live by the land, and women who are in a sense the creators and sustainers of life are protectors of ecology.

[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.

at the same time the parable of the talents came to mind and having grown up in Brazil, with parents who were peasants in pre-communist Russia, it was ingrained in me to become an engineer to be successful which I became after i came to the «land of milk and honney, where money grows on trees» and many foreigners aspire to do the same to come and live here, the good ol USA...

In this parable we find again the sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life so characteristic of Jesus.

Friere was successful in reaching the peasants of Latin America because he insisted that, first of all, they explore what is wrong in their lives and why they tolerate it.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism, Baha'ism, Christianity et al, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life (e.g. «Do no Harm»).

Obama, Perry, Romney are NOT what this country needs unless you WANT OPEN BORDERS and you like living with 3rd world peasants in your neighborhoods speaking 3rd world foreign languages.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

And out in the near countryside there was a burgeoning peasant life.

Because God is a creation of stupified peasants who lived in a world of fear and pain and wanted something to count on?

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

The name «cottage» was given to meat pie around the time potatoes were introduced in the UK because they were an affordable thing for peasants to eat, many of whom lived in cottages.

Violent processes of enclosure robbed peasants of their traditional way of life and subjected them to new humiliations and cruelties in the factories.

In other categories, Melvyn Bragg saw off competition from Nadine Dorries to take home Best Fiction by a Parliamentarian for Now is the Time, bringing the Peasants» Revolt of 1381 to life.

If you have doubts, compare level of life of the poorest people in the an urban ghetto in USA vs. random poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).

Glacier melt is the most plentiful source of water for the peasants of Ladakh, who eke out a living in a high desert region of the Indian Himalayas.

Mikhail Gorbachev, born into a peasant family in 1931, lived through Stalin's «Great Terror,» when the dictator deliberately starved millions of farmers to force them onto collective farms.

A case in point: the Arara people, who had been called the scourge of the Trans?amazônica Highway for their attacks on work crews but today live as poor peasants fully dependent on federal aid.

The longest living man in the West was Old Par, an English peasant who labored in the fields until his death at 152 years.