Sentences with phrase «with mediaeval»
I hate cities where there are too many people crowded in ugly buildings, but love the hearts of old cities with Mediaeval buildings, ancient walls, tiny streets.
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He brings out the tricky path that believing scientists did have to tread so carefully as the mediaeval Church gave way to the counter-Reformation Church, simultaneous with the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution.
These almost insoluble questions are those with which the Church fathers and mediaeval Muslim theologians wrestled.
Many mediaeval speculations about the condition of Adam in Paradise, which must not be confused with the real doctrine of faith, show themselves for this reason to be false, as a projection of the condition of ideal perfection back into the beginning.
If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.
Yet the Reformers, critical though they were of the Pope and of the mediaeval church, were anxious not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Especially Occidentals seem all too prone to identify the latter with the metaphysics of the Vedanta without doing justice to the characteristic spirit of devotion to which the earlier and later mediaeval documents of Hinduism testify.
The development of Protestant Liberalism contrasted strongly, at first, with the response of Catholicism to modernity, partly because the Roman Catholic Church has been a much more authoritarian structure, and partly because the Roman Catholic Church remained more firmly committed to the mediaeval age after the Protestant Reformation.
Nicholas, Superstition I can accept but to SERIOUSLY believe there can ever be any TRUTH in a mere shirt number being the reason some players succeed and others don't, belongs with astrology, lucky charms, old wives tales and the like as mediaeval claptrap believed by flat earthers and other dimwitted folk.
«He opened it with the key which he had kept on his chain, and its contents began to slide out - a Penguin on Mediaeval Customs, a collection of statistics for exports in 1946, a speech, carefully typed and tabulated, which he had failed to deliver because he hadn't been called, a library book on constitutional government, an unopened letter from an eccentric who used to write to him every day, a few newspaper cuttings, three copies of Hansard, a United Nations report, a grey tie, a clutter of invitations to Mr and Mrs Michael Erskine, and a powder - compact which Jane had once left in the House.»
Ones that stuck in my mind included Roman mosaics (floors of ancient villas have been uncovered with barely a piece missing), the beautiful Winged Victory bronze, (cast in the first century but only rediscovered in the 19th so well had the locals hidden it from the Hungarian Lombard invaders) and a mediaeval cross covered not just with hundreds of semi-precious stones but with little cameos and miniature portraits too to give it a human dimension as well as a religious one.
The undiscovered lands of Old Castile, one of the historic mediaeval kingdoms of Spain, encompass an incredibly varied landscape where high plains and fertile valleys alternate with rugged hills, d...
With its Renaissance cities, mediaeval villages and cypress - lined avenues snaking through vineyards, southern Tuscany is the perfect place for a relaxing guided walking holiday.
Then there's an overnight in Krems the beautiful mediaeval city, Melk Abbey and Stein which has one of the oldest working theatres in the world (together with loo separated from the auditorium by just a curtain).
Sitting in the heart of the well - preserved mediaeval village of Commeire, this is a place for authentic tourism, a place that enables frequent contact with nature.
This suite has a mediaeval feel, with its slate floor and furnishings whilst providing all the modern luxuries of King Size Bed with a 4 Posted Black King Size Spabath at the foot of it, Crackling Log Fire, separate Black Marbled Bathroom, Kitchenette, split system air conditioning and heating and French doors opening onto your private courtyard positioned to take in the sunset and complete with a romantic wicker outdoor setting and shade umbrella.
On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.
No tropospheric hotspot, GCMs no warming for 18 years, the mediaeval Warm period warmer than today with much less CO2.
That debate is what got the mediaeval Christian world out of its thrall to religious dogma and into the enlightenment, with much pain for people brave enough to lead the debate.
«The reconstructed amplitude of change over past centuries is greater than hitherto reported, with somewhat greater Mediaeval warmth in the Northern Hemisphere, albeit still not reaching recent levels,» write the researchers in their paper in PNAS.
«It is likely that the current powerful run of positive Pacific Decadal Oscillations is the pulse of warmth from the Mediaeval Warm Period returning to the surface with the consequent inevitable increase in atmospheric CO2 as that warmer water fails to take up as much CO2 by absorption.»
Stephen Wilde says: We have seen the jet streams move poleward when the AO is positive so in the Mediaeval Warm Period we must have had a positive AO despite the more active sun All you are saying is that clearly [«despite»] the AO has little if anything to do with the Sun.
But what you are really arguing for is a strategic map — even one of those mediaeval ones with continents half drawn.
Britain may use mediaeval law to charge citizens that fight with Islamic State insurgents with treason, Reuters
I was reminded of the mediaeval «scholares vagantes» (wandering scholars) with Peggy like a modern day tour guide whose itinerary was to have us travel from place to place, teacher to teacher, seeking wisdoms.