Sentences with phrase «upon nineteenth»

Kurland's work draws upon the nineteenth - century landscape tradition of depicting a perfect place.

These questions puzzled me for a long time and then one day, while looking through a library catalogue, I came upon a nineteenth - century dictionary of the «Laskari» language.

This is the basis of Barth's attack upon nineteenth century religion and upon all self - centred, self - conscious pietistic religion.

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Rather it is based upon the conviction that this continuation of the nineteenth - century German quest ought probably to be interrupted or at least disturbed.

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, William Wordsworth might declare, «This did I feel in London's vast Domain: / The Spirit of Nature was upon me there,» and at the close of the century Arthur Conan Doyle might make Sherlock Holmes shudder at the thought of the countryside's hidden crimes.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

In the nineteenth century, the Indian «Tribals», such as the Malayarayans and Pulayas of Kerala, were called upon to face radical change.

When the emphasis laid by the kerygma upon the historicity or humiliation of Jesus has been misunderstood in terms of nineteenth - century historiography, it is almost inevitable that one would search in the kerygma for the implementation of that kind of historiography.

Consequently the kind of history and biography attempted unsuccessfully for Jesus by the nineteenth century is now seen to be based upon a false understanding of the nature of history and the self.

On the other hand, attempts to construct a picture of the historical Jesus have been fraught with personal biases to the extent that Jesus the first century Palestinian often comes out resembling nothing so much as the ideal nineteenth century European liberal or twentieth century American conservative or twenty - first century third world radical, depending upon who is constructing this «historical» picture.

Indeed, although it has not moved forward so rapidly as in the nineteenth century, since A.D. 1914 Christianity has grown in its influence upon the race as a whole.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

Others would adopt the same remedy, or have it imposed upon them, and by the end of the long nineteenth century in 1918, the ancient Catholic monarchies of Europe would all be gone.

In the nineteenth century the burden of proof lay upon the scholar who saw theological interpolations in historical sources; in the twentieth century the burden of proof lies upon the scholar who sees objective factual source material in the primitive Church's book of common worship.

The idea that the origin and evolution of plants and animals and all living creatures depends in part upon chance events is largely due to Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century.

American society may soon embark upon the most important constitutional debate since the early nineteenth century.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century the Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist denominations in particular called upon women in comparatively large numbers to serve as deaconesses.

Foreseeing in 1859 some of the dangers which were to overtake Protestantism in the latter part of the nineteenth century a conservative Unitarian, Henry W. Bellows, urged upon his fellows a rediscovery of the ecclesia of the Scriptures.

«32 The end of the nineteenth century was to witness a Protestant people in America bent upon evangelizing the world in one generation and hurriedly devising the methods and providing the means by which this might be done.

When, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, European peoples again expanded, colonizing fresh sections in the Americas, occupying all of Africa and the islands of the Pacific, and subjecting to their control much of Asia, Christian missions followed and in some instances anticipated the advancing frontiers of Occidental power, and modified profoundly the revolutionary results of the impact of Western upon non-Western peoples and cultures.

A significant critical comment, which is already implicit in the discussion, may be expanded upon in evaluating this nineteenth century interpretation of Jesus.

However, the greatest influence upon the curries of East Africa was the British, who controlled Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Uganda, beginning in the nineteenth century.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sending communications to influential men was, for many early female voters, the most effective way of influencing political debate in a period where public speaking was frowned upon.

Well, it was my unshakeable faith in God, my simple and frugal lifestyle and the Aloe, whose benefits I discovered upon my arrival in South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century.

Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week's compilation of mostly useful data, analysis, rankings and commentaries.

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

While in the Columbia library he happened upon the autobiography of Colonel James «Sikander» Skinner, a legendary nineteenth century soldier, born of an Indian mother and a British father.

Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth - century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography.

Upon entering the space, the visitor unavoidably came into contact with Birgit Maaß's Inbetween, a door - curtain made out of hairs plucked from the wigs of former «Winnetou» performers (Winnetou being an idealised figure from the Wild West novels of popular nineteenth - century German writer Karl May).

Upon realizing the impossibility of the set up and the betrayal of an unplayable putting green, The Nineteenth Hole becomes a continual reminder of the things that can not be attained nor conquered; this becomes more so for repeat visitors to the market.

Conscious of the nineteenth - century German tradition of romantic landscape painting, Hütte depends upon compositional and structural devices, whilst refuting its tradition of emotional excess and self - conscious pathos.

Comprised itself of braided elements — metal chains, ropes and rubber tubes — the sculpture plays with porous meaning, and draws upon the misnomer of the «French braid», an ancient hairstyle originating from North Africa, which was later denominated in nineteenth century America as a signifier of elegance and sophistication.

2014 — 15 Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain Galleria Mazzoli, Modena 2013 Galerie Bordas, Venice 2011 — 2012 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2011 Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Recreation of Salt Mountain, Vittorio Emanueke and the cathedral in Piazza del Duomo, Milan Castello Sofrzesco, Milan Basilica di Sant» Ambrogio, Milan Museum of the Nineteenth Century, Milan New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury 2010Valentina Bonomo, Rome Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo Christian Stein, Milan 2009 — 2010 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield 2009University Gallery, Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne Galerie Klüser 2, Munich Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani at Stra, Venice 2008 Centro Cultural Recoleta l Junín 1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo dell» Ara Pacis, Rome, Italy (with Brian Eno) 2006 Waddington Galleries, London Alan Cristea Gallery, London Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Galleria Christian Stein & Galleria Cardi, Milan 2005 Shizuoka Art Gallery, Shizuoka MAR Museo d`Arte della città di Ravenna, Ravenna Sala Terrena, Universität Salzburg; touring to Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum Scuola dei Battioro, Venice Galleria Christian Stein, Milan Museo d`Arte Moderna Ca`Pesaro, Venice

The reaction at the time was luke - warm: for example, doubt was cast upon the accuracy of carbon dioxide concentration measurements from the nineteenth century.

Earlier modes of isolation, such as those relied upon in nineteenth - century prisons, were thought to induce moral reform in the prisoner.