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Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
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.
Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.
The History takes too much for granted to serve as a text for other than English schoolboys, and like Britain in the nineteenth century it deteriorates badly as it goes beyond 1870.
Gone are the days when, in the nineteenth century, scientists thought that they were close to the attainment of complete knowledge of the physical universe.
and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.
Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.
As R.H. Hodgkin has remarked: `` The critical methods of the nineteenth century shattered most of this picturesque narrative.
Therefore, it is plain that the clear distinctions of the nineteenth century are no longer with us.
They, in effect, have compromised the opposing positions of the nineteenth century.
On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.
In the imagination of the nineteenth century the Greek tragedians and Shakespeare stand side by side, their affinity transcending all the immense contrarieties of historical circumstance, religious belief, and poetic form.
A `` concert of free nations '' should take its inspiration from the traditions of the nineteenth century Concert of Europe with its common values and accepted `` rules of the game ''.
That is the lesson of the nineteenth century.
Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.
During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers, though ineffectively, just as the new nations of Africa and Asia protest them, with more effect, today.
The theory of international law, which in the nineteenth century became common to virtually all writers in Europe and America, broke this unity and this universality.
According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.
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.
It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.
Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.
By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.

nineteenth and archaeologist
Additionally, several pioneering nineteenth century European experimental knappers are also known and in the late 1960s and early 1970s experimental archaeologist Don Crabtree published texts such as " Experiments in Flintworking ".
The archaeologist uncovers evidence of the decline of British culture in the nineteenth century, allowing O ' Neil to vent his own distinctly reactionary political views, predicting dire consequences of the Reform Act 1867.

nineteenth and even
Opium smoking began as a privilege of the elite and remained a great luxury into the early nineteenth century, but by 1861, Wang Tao wrote that opium was used even by rich peasants, and even a small village without a rice store would have a shop where opium was sold.
There could be no greater demonstration of the essential fragility of the Republic ’ s institutions and proof that the regime was democratic in name only, since it did not even admit the possibility of the rotation in power characteristic of the elitist regimes of the nineteenth century.
Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is, in fact, Captain Nemo, but that seems physically impossible, or at least very unlikely, as Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is set in the second half of the nineteenth century, which would make Hagbard Celine, if the same character and person as Nemo, over a hundred years old.
At the end of the 18th century, and even more at the beginning of the nineteenth, the Maghreb suffered from the deadly combination of plague and famine.
Mataró was declared a city by royal decree, even though at the time ( nineteenth century ) the population fell short of the requirement for city status.
" Race relations in Hidalgo County during the nineteenth century had been fairly amicable even as the number of Anglo-Americans moving to the area increased.
Since the nineteenth century, sightings of Black Dogs, Werewolves, British big cats ,, UFOs and even Bigfoot have appeared in the local press.
* the above component vali ahad meaning ' successor by virtue of a covenant ' ( or various forms and etymological derivations ) was adopted by many oriental monarchies, even some non-Muslim, e. g. Walet as alternative title for the Nepali ( Hindu ) royal heir apparent ; first used Crown Prince Trailokya in the middle of the nineteenth century, taken from the Mughal title ' Vali Ahad '
Sander Gilman, in commenting on this passage, writes that, ' the Islam he discovered becomes the model for a new spirit of Judaism at the close of the nineteenth century .’ In Cairo Goldziher even prayed as a Muslim: " In the midst of the thousands of the pious, I rubbed my forehead against the floor of the mosque.
Morison also refused to remove references to stereotypes of African Americans that he believed were vital in accurately depicting the racist nature of American culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — an era when even the most enlightened progressive thinkers routinely explained many aspects of human behavior as being a result of innate racial or ethnic characteristics.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were many irons in use which were heated by a fuel such as kerosene, ethanol, whale oil, natural gas, carbide gas ( acetylene ) as with carbide lamps, or even gasoline.
This was part of a larger movement of thousands of Jews from countries as widely spaced as Persia and Morocco, Yemen and Russia, who moved to Israel beginning in the first decade of the nineteenth century – and in even larger numbers after the conquest of the region by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1832 – all drawn by the expectation of the arrival of the Messiah in the Jewish year 5600, Christian year 1840, a movement documented in Arie Morgenstern's Hastening Redemption.
In the late nineteenth century Great South Bay provided many of the clams consumed throughout the region and even the country.
This tendency was even more marked in early American industrial songs, where representative heroes like Casey Jones and John Henry were eulogised in blues ballads from the nineteenth century.
This earned her the ire of many hard-line republicans, even into the next generation — such as the comment by the nineteenth century historian Jules Michelet, a fierce apologist for the Revolution, who wrote, " She allowed herself to act and write about more than one affair that her weak head did not understand.
In 1794 approximately half of the hamlet was destroyed in a fire ( see below ) but, even so, it continued as a notorious slum well into the nineteenth century.
Although the number of its speakers was very few even at the end of the nineteenth century, the language had at least two dialects in the past.
By the early nineteenth century, every city of even modest size as far east as the Volga had a German quarter and a Jewish quarter.
Some advocates within this approach come fairly close to the Liberal point of view, and stipulate conditions where all market controls should be dropped once certain development thresholds are exceeded ( this is true even as far back as the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, in the work of influential scholars such as Friedrich List and Alexander Hamilton ).
The baby houses of the seventeenth and 18th centuries, and the toy dollhouses of the nineteenth and early 20th century rarely had uniform scales, even for the features or contents of any one individual house.
Nonetheless, the nineteenth century also saw an increase in the numbers of those cunning folk being prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1736, possibly because " members of the social elite came to perceive that a faith in magic from having been eradicated as they had hoped, seemed to be as prevalent among the populace as it had been a hundred years before, even while a growing political turbulence among commoners gave their rulers a new interest in the idea of education and civility as stabilizing forces.
The concept of a National Statuary Hall originated in the middle of the nineteenth century, even before the completion of the present House wing in 1857.
However, despite reaching to over in elevation, the climate today is sufficiently dry that no glaciers survived even before the rapid current glacial retreat began in the middle nineteenth century.
Its geographical location and transport difficulties explain the lack of interest aroused in the nineteenth century for these lands, to the point that no one even thought of colonizing them with immigrants, as happened with the other southern regions.

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