Emberley's verses, which passed quickly into tradition, are a local application of a pattern established by an 18th-century English broadside which ridiculed certain trades and later was adapted often to describe hard times.

It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Socialist critique of the capitalist world.

Apart from Falstaff, the most famous highwayman in English drama is Captain Macheath, hero of John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera.

Its title parodied an 18th-century Scottish ballad.

This turn toward the subjective anticipated empiricists such as George Berkeley, who revived idealism in 18th-century Europe by employing skeptical arguments against materialism.

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

* Baruch Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ) Dutch philosopher who helped lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment.

It was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus, who gave it the name Felis leo, in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae.

A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner ( named for the 18th-century French mathematician and philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, who championed such outcomes ).

This 18th-century term, endorsed by John Wesley who remained within the Church of England, describes how people serving in different geographical centres are ' connected ' to each other.

" Other Jewish writers have come to different conclusions, such as 13th-century scholar Bahya ben Asher, 16th-century scholar Moses Almosnino, and the 18th-century Hasidic teacher Nahman of Bratslav, who expressed a view-similar to that expressed by the Christian Neo-Platonic writer Boethius-that God " lives in the eternal present " and transcends or is above all time.

After Cochereau's sudden death in 1984, four new titular organists were appointed at Notre Dame in 1985: Jean-Pierre Leguay Olivier Latry, Yves Devernay ( who died in 1990 ), and Philippe Lefebvre This was reminiscent of the 18th-century practice of the cathedral having four titular organists, each one playing for three months of the year.

The MRTA took its name in homage to Túpac Amaru II, an 18th-century rebel leader who was himself named after his ancestor Túpac Amaru, the last indigenous leader of the Inca people.

It was named after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany.

The " grave " mound is ascribed to the activities of a late 18th-century landlord of the Goat Hotel in Beddgelert, David Pritchard, who connected the legend to the village in order to encourage tourism.

A Pennsylvania state historic site, the Conrad Weiser Homestead, is located in Womelsdorf ; this site interprets the life of Conrad Weiser, a well-known 18th-century German immigrant who played a major role in the history of colonial Pennsylvania.

The nation ( who it was then assumed, by architect and owners, was paying the bills ) wanted a monument, but the Duchess wanted not only a fitting tribute to her husband but also a comfortable home, two requirements that were not compatible in 18th-century architecture.

However, persons who have studied life in 18th-century London agree that the number of gravid women who died in London during the years of Hunter's and Smellie's work was not particularly high for that locality and time ; the prevalence of pre-eclampsia, a common condition affecting ten percent of all pregnancies and one easily treated today, but for which there was no treatment in Hunter's time, would more than suffice to explain a mortality rate that seems suspiciously high to 21st-century readers.

The command would be based on the 18th-century military works of Henry Bouquet, a professional Swiss soldier who served as a colonel in the British army, and French Marshal Maurice de Saxe.

One of the three main characters is an 18th-century Chinese woman who arrives in a modern hospital waiting room seeking medical help for complications resulting from her bound feet.

" Examples of individuals who adhere to this tendency are the 18th-century Shah Waliullah in India and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab in the Arabian Peninsula.

Charles Mason ( Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, April 1728 – Philadelphia, October 25, 1786 ) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States ( 1764 – 1768 ).

Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include author Norah Lofts, who though actually born in Shipdham Norfolk, bases many of her stories in Baildon, the fictionalised Bury St Edmunds, artist Rose Mead, artist and printer Sybil Andrews, actors Bob Hoskins and Michael Maloney theatre director Sir Peter Hall, author Maria Lousie de la Ramé ( also known as Ouida ), Canadian journalist and author Richard Gwyn, cyclist James Moore, World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds, footballer Andy Marshall and the 18th-century landscape architect Humphry Repton, Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor Stephen Gardiner.

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen tell the story about an 18th-century baron who tells outrageous, unbelievable stories, which he claims are all true.

18th-century examples are Shah Wali Allah in India and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab ( who founded Wahhabism ) in the Arabian Peninsula.

Subjective idealism made its mark in Europe in the 18th-century writings of George Berkeley, who argued that the idea of mind-independent reality is incoherent, concluding that the world consists of the minds of humans and of God.

With the increased fashionability of 18th-century instruments, from the 1970s onwards, Münchinger's interpretations fell dramatically from critical favor and were often dismissed as passé.

On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre that was popular in 18th-century Britain.

Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman.

Proving the truth of 18th-century author Henry Fielding's quip that " love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea ," the custom of banning servants from the drawing room during tea shows the hostess's desire to encourage free conversation among her guests.

The main feature of the city is essentially the Monastery that proudly presents a long and sombre façade with 18th-century embellishments.

Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron ( 1778 ), set out to take Walpole's plot and adapt it to the demands of the time by balancing fantastic elements with 18th-century realism.

Since the 19th century, humanism has been associated with an anti-clericalism inherited from the 18th-century Enlightenment philosophes.

" Punishment with an ordinary knout ", an 18th-century print

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth, the headstone was moved in 1956, together with his remains, to the 18th-century necropolis at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

18th-century map by Pierre Mortier of The Netherland s depicting with detail the islands of the Maldive s.

In the end science and scientific rationality, often taking models from the 18th-century Enlightenment, came to be seen as the source of logic and stability, while the basic primitive sexual and unconscious drives, along with the seemingly counter-intuitive workings of the new machine age, were taken as the basic emotional substance.

Wesley maintained the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England, while Whitefield adopted Calvinism through his contacts with Calvinists in Scotland and New England.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

Unfortunately, Feltham badly misinterpreted parts of the text, mainly due to his unfamiliarity with 18th-century brewing terminology.

Serpens and Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

Hume's examples ring true with many 21st century readers, and they appealed to some of Paley's 18th-century contemporaries as well.

The Old Hall is a grade II * listed 15th-century house, with 16th-and 18th-century alterations.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

This character, an idealized portrayal of " Nature's Gentleman ", was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism, along with other stock characters such as, the Virtuous Milkmaid, the Servant-More-Clever-than-the-Master ( such as Sancho Panza and Figaro, among countless others ), and the general theme of virtue in the lowly born.

" He linked 18th-century Whiggism with 17th-century revolutionary Puritanism, arguing that the Whigs of his day were similarly inimical to the established order of church and state.

Upon the death of his father in 1805, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and spent two years mixing with the literary set of the so-called " ideologues ", philosophers of the 18th-century school, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel.

Alexander the Great | Alexander covers the corpse of Darius with his cloak ( 18th-century engraving )

Thomas Gray, the 18th-century poet, combined Marlowe's depiction of Isabella with William Shakespeare's description of Margaret of Anjou ( the wife of Henry VI ) as the " She-Wolf of France ", to produce the anti-French poem The Bard, in which Isabella rips apart the bowels of Edward II with her " unrelenting fangs ".

Certain aspects of his music can be considered to belong to the tradition of 18th-century French classicism beginning with Couperin and Rameau as in Le Tombeau de Couperin.