Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

Nineteenth-century travellers could point to the Hill of San Giovanni on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio, which still had a cathedral said to have been the 6th century seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

Nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of Fort Collins.

Nineteenth-century biologists reported that the Hydra was such a simple animal that it was possible to force one through gauze to separate it into individual cells ; if the cells were then left to themselves, they would regroup to form a hydra again.

Nineteenth-century newspaper reports of actual gypsy weddings indicate that they took place in church.

Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.

Nineteenth-century fictional depictions of John were heavily influenced by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance, Ivanhoe, which presented " an almost totally unfavourable picture " of the king ; the work drew on Victorian histories of the period and on Shakespeare's play.

Nineteenth-century comparative mythology reinterpreted myth as evolution toward science ( E. B. Tylor ), " disease of language " ( Max Müller ), or misinterpretation of magical ritual ( James Frazer ).

Nineteenth-century interpretations of myth were often highly comparative, seeking a common origin for all myths.

Nineteenth-century positivist historians stressed what they saw as Thucydides ' seriousness, his scientific objectivity and his advanced handling of evidence.

* Nineteenth-century theatre – wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century.

Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).

: Great Puzzles In Nineteenth-century Fiction.

Nineteenth-century Britain was home to a great deal of scientific progress.

In R. Bellamy, ed., Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-century Political Thought and Practice, London, pp. 5870

Nineteenth-century botanists had problems in classifying Douglas-firs, due to the species ' similarity to various other conifers better known at the time ; they have at times been classified in Pinus, Picea, Abies, Tsuga, and even Sequoia.

Nineteenth-century British anthropology advanced a lineal, evolutionary sequence in a given culture from savagery to civilization.

Nineteenth-century culinary writer Pierre Lacam suggested that in 1459, a London woman named Annamarie Turcauht stumbled upon this condiment after trying to create a custard of some sort.

Nineteenth-century operettas became the preserve of lightweight baritone voices.

Nineteenth-century inventors were reluctant to accept this added complication and experimented with a variety of caseless or self-consuming cartridges before finally accepting that the advantages of brass cases far outweighed this one drawback.

Nineteenth-century Cannes can still be seen in its grand villas, built to reflect the wealth and standing of their owners and inspired by anything from medieval castles to Roman villas.

He was also aided by the support of the Rev George Gilfillan, a poetry critic in Dundee.

* Marija Trofimova, " Prince Serge M. Wolkonsky – theatrical critic of Poslednie Novosti " (“ Knyaz Sergei Volkonsky – teatralny kritik gazety Poslednie Novosti ”) ( in Russian ), Rev.

Saunders, a critic from Lewisham of corruption in the oversight of the existing Poor Law system, replied to these pamphlets in ‘ An Abstract of Observations on the Poor Laws, with a Reply to the Remarks of the Rev.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.

Following the theme of Incarnation in the Gospels, the Christian artist and critic sees in the most commonplace and ordinary events `` figures '' of divine power and reality.

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Nor need the critic be captious.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

As a theologian in the group pointed out, a professional was, before the modern period of technical specialization, one who `` professed '' to be a bearer and critic of his culture in the use of his particular skills.

one influential French critic remarked: `` Pity for Arnolphe comes with age ''.

Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

To be sure, Lanza made numerous concert tours, here and abroad, but these did not take him to New York where the carping critic might lurk.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

Formerly an advocate of Altaic ( 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 ), now a critic of it.

Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.