He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

The term was coined by Otto Neurath in a series of early twentieth century essays on the subject, in which he wrote:

... how early this basic truth was recognized by the sages of India, since it appears as the fundamental tenet of the Vedânta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa, is proved by Sir William Jones in the last of his essays: " On the Philosophy of the Asiatics " ( Asiatic Researches, vol.

In his early essays for the Vienna-based journal Anbruch, Adorno claimed that musical progress is proportional to the composer's ability to constructively deal with the possibilities and limitations contained within what Adorno called the " musical material.

Essays on Twentieth-Century History ( 2010 ); historiographic essays on world history conceptualizing the " long " 20th century, from the 1870s to the early 2000s.

During his early years, Émile Zola wrote several short stories and essays, four plays and three novels.

At that time, reading material was not specially written for children but consisted primarily of the Bible and some patriotic essays ; the most influential early textbook was The New England Primer, published late 1680s.

The Library of America republished the first five novels, six early stories, and four essays on fiction in one volume in 2009.

The records of his visit include sketches of the early city buildings, a description of local geography and agriculture, commentary on its politics and social order, essays, speeches, and sermons from Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and other prominent leaders, and snapshots of everyday life such as newspaper clippings and the menu from a high-society ball.

Matisse and Picasso were subjects of early essays, later collected and published in Geography and Plays and Portraits and Prayers.

At this time, he began to submit essays to Red Cross Notes ( including his first published piece — an essay on the " Psychology of Advertising ") and his early poems to literary periodicals.

Lawrence was the residence of Robert Frost for his early school years ; his first essays and poems were published in the Lawrence High School Bulletin.

One of Abercrombie's early projects during this period was to advise Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, on the reformed spelling system he was devising for the publication of his collected essays ( later published in seven volumes by Oxford University Press, with the help of the distinguished typographer Stanley Morison, who designed the new letters ).

The Institute is named after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon expounding the political views of philosopher John Locke, that had a strong influence on the American Revolution's intellectual environment.

Lucy Aikin was born into a family of writers, the most well known of whom was her paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Maine de Biran's early essays in philosophy were written from the point of view of Locke and Condillac, but showed signs of his later interests.

Other early speakers wrote poetry, stories and essays in the language ; Henri Vallienne was the first to write novels in Esperanto.

Hunt's early essays were published by Edward Quin, editor and owner of The Traveller.

He served several years in the German Zionist youth movement, writing several essays pertaining to its controversies, but left these activities behind by his early twenties.

Besides the large collection of India Postage stamps designed, printed and issued, it has a large collection of Indian states, both confederate and feudatory, early essays, proofs and colour trials, a collection of Indian stamps " used abroad " and as well as early Indian postcards, postal stationery and thematic collections.

Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres ( novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews ) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

In the early nineteenth century, " bibliomania " was used in popular discourse ( such as in periodical essays and poems ) to describe obsessive book collectors.

Alexander's first exposure to journalism was in his early twenties, when he wrote several moral essays under the pseudonym " Clarinda.

Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

Over 4 million shares were sold, the highest figures since early June.

Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Its early morning patrons were coachmen, who fortified themselves for the day with that delicacy.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

The early works were conceived for a sophisticated, international audience ; ;

Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

The first cattle the Injuns saw under the white man's control were the ox teams of the early freighters.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.