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And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.
In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.
Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.
Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.
No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.
In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.
Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.
In the eighteenth century there emerges for the first time the notion of a private tragedy ( or nearly for the first time, there having been a small number of Elizabethan domestic tragedies such as the famous Arden Of Feversham ).
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.
And not one single dwelling left there, though once, in the early eighteenth century, there were close to a hundred houses.
As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.
It all takes place in the eighteenth century.
There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.
In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, agrarianism felt the influence of the European Romanticism movement.
The eighteenth century saw major advances in acoustics as mathematicians applied the new techniques of calculus to elaborate theories of sound wave propagation.
The species was introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.
André Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century ( but was supplanted later ).
The discipline of aesthetics, which originated in the eighteenth century, mistook this transient state of affairs for a revelation of the permanent nature of art.
In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:
In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.
Although this is a relatively small value, it was well within the observational capability of the instruments available in the early eighteenth century.

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It shares the same roots as the English of the United States because it was based on the immigration of British Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century.
The relative rise in popularity of the Evangelical movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was due to a number of reasons: the on-set of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent break up of, particularly, rural communities, was an unsettling influence on a parish like Olney ; Methodism had seen a significant growth in popularity in the same period ; and Evangelicalism was gradually finding its way into the established Church of England.
Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics ' " tendency to fall " had been .... By the mid eighteenth century that interpretation had been almost universally accepted, and the result was a genuine reversion ( which is not the same as a retrogression ) to a scholastic standard.
As a result the Linnaean system was born, and is still used in essentially the same way today as it was in the eighteenth century.
' Various schemes of provision for ministers ' widows were then established throughout Europe at about the start of the eighteenth century, some based on a single premium others based on yearly premiums to be distributed as benefits in the same year.
The palace complex with gardens, pavillons, sculptures, outbuildings and other structures and the city with churches, city hall and monastery, all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the eighteenth century as Versailles of Podlaskie ().
As a notable exception, only one male pharaoh abandoned the rigid symbolic depiction that had become the style of the most official artwork representing the ruler, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV ( later Akhenaten ) of the same eighteenth dynasty, whose wife, Nefertiti, also may have ruled in her own right following the death of her husband.
" Indeed, the act was passed by Parliament on 21 May, the same day as a royal proclamation against seditious writings was issued, and more libel cases would be brought by the government in the following two years than had been in all the preceding years of the eighteenth century.
More recently, however, some progress has been made toward making a useful distinction for the usage of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when some composers ( notably Frescobaldi and François Couperin ) deliberately mixed the two genres in the same composition.
( 31 January 1754 – 30 September 1756 ), was a London weekly eighteenth century newspaper founded and chiefly run by George Colman the Elder and the parodist Bonnell Thornton as a ' plebeian ' counterpart to Edward Moore's The World, a periodical of about the same time, which dealt more with the interests of aristocrats.
The colegio mayor de Maese Rodrigo and the university proper, although housed in the same building, never lost their separate identities, as is shown by the fact that, in the eighteenth century, the university was moved to the College of San Hermanegildo, while that of Maese Rodrigo remained independent, although languishing.
The role developed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the role of Prime Minister and the system of Cabinet government.
The other vaults are more recent, built at the same time as the arches which lead to the second choir, from the eighteenth century.
Back in her classroom, she leads her class in a musical piece by an eighteenth century composer, Van den Budenmayer — the same piece performed by Weronika when she died.
The war provided a unique example during the eighteenth century when Britain and France were on the same side.
The modern word for a dress coat in Italian, French and Spanish is frac ; in German Frack ; and the Portuguese fraque is even spelt the same as it was spelt in French, used in the late eighteenth century to describe a garment very similar to the frock, being a single or double-breasted garment with a diagonally cutaway front in the manner of a modern morning coat.
As the Deltics were then in production, it was decided to produce the locomotive on the same production line ; the bodyshell used for DP2 reputedly being the eighteenth made.
Amiya Kumar Bagchi describes Habib as " one of the two most prominent Marxist historians of India today and at the same time, one of the greatest living historians of India between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries.
At this point the government realizes that the individual likely to commit the murder is not Joseph, but Ben, his son, since before his eighteenth birthday a boy's information is added along with his father's, and Multivac treats the two as one and the same.
It is notable for its involvement in the U-Decide campaign, and for being plagued by chronic lateness, taking a year and four months ( from September 2002 to January 2004 to complete what was a supposedly monthly series ( in contrast, the relaunched Captain Marvel series, which debuted the same week ( as part of U-Decide )-had its eighteenth issue released the same week as Ultimate Adventures # 6 finally made it to shops ).
Commissioned Rear Admiral the same year, he served as Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia, from May 1902 to April 1903 ; commanded the Coast Squadron until 1905 ; then assumed duty as the eighteenth Superintendent of the Naval Academy.
Size Isn't Everything is the Bee Gees ' twentieth studio album ( eighteenth worldwide ), released in the UK on 13 September 1993, and the US on 2 November of the same year.

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