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Nineteenth-century enthusiasm for brain size as a simple measure of human performance, championed by scientists including Darwin's cousin Francis Galton and the French neurologist Paul Broca, led Fiske to believe in the racial superiority of the " Anglo-Saxon race ".
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Auction houses still usually divide their sales between, for example: " Old Master Paintings ", " Nineteenth-century paintings " and " Modern paintings ".
Nineteenth-century folklorists often used the term " white witch " to refer to cunning folk, although this was infrequently used amongst the ordinary people themselves, as for them the term " witch " had general connotations of malevolence and evil.
Nineteenth-century newspapers were often densely packed with type, often arranged vertically, with multiple headlines for each article.
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Nineteenth-century boat-building practices in the Highlands are likely to have applied also to the birlinn: examples are the use of dried moss, steeped in tar, for caulking, and the use of stocks in construction.
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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.
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Nineteenth-century closet drama became a longer poetic form, without the connection to practical theatre and performance.
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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 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.
Nineteenth-century tourists, arriving by steamer from the mainland, could also choose from a wide range of secular attractions: shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, dance halls, band concerts, walks along seaside promenades, or swims in the waters of Nantucket Sound.
Nineteenth-century engraving by William Barraud depicting the Earl of Arundel in the Tower of London.
Nineteenth-century musicologist François-Joseph Fétis claimed to have seen a sixteenth-century copy of a Tractatus de musica mensurata et de proportionibus by Dufay, last seen in a bookshop in London in 1824.
Shortly before the phrase in Acts 3: 21 comes, in or, the similar phrase, " times of refreshing ", Nineteenth-century " Eckermann interprets the ' apocatastasis of all things ' to mean the universal emendation of religion by the doctrine of Christ, and the ' times of refreshing ' to be the day of renewal, the times of the Messiah.
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* The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-century England by Barry Reay ISBN 0-19-820187-7 ( 1 October 1990 ), ISBN 978-0-9564827-2-3 ( Breviary Stuff Publications, 31 July 2010 ).
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As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.
when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.
There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.
We should spread the view that planning and national development are serious matters which call for effort as well as enthusiasm.
The absence of successful Negroes in the world of scholarship and science has tended to tamp down enthusiasm among Negro youth for academic careers.
State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.
In one of his best essays Mr. Sansom expresses his enthusiasm for the many country mansions designed by Andrea Palladio himself that dot the environs of Vicenza.
However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as " putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas ", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.
He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.
Pericles learned to love and admire him, and the poet Euripides derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.
This promoted a new enthusiasm for assembly meetings.
He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day to Australia, Canada and Europe.
It was initiated in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create an enthusiasm in the mind of the populace for the conservation of forests and planting of trees.
Botany was a passion for most Victorians and nature study was a popular enthusiasm.
George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.
Unlike other eastern Indonesian islands, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese displayed no enthusiasm for Christianity or the Europeans who brought it in the sixteenth century, and no serious attempt was made to Christianise the Bandanese.
A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.
He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.
The widespread northern enthusiasm for the Crusade was partially inspired by a papal decree permitting the confiscation of lands owned by Cathars and their supporters.
Like the other middle colonies, the Lower Counties on the Delaware initially showed little enthusiasm for a break with Britain.
His enthusiasm for the project was transmitted to the publishers ; they collected a sufficient capital for a more vast enterprise than they had first planned.
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