Category: Late Romantic

John Cotton discussed whether a certain shopkeeper, who had been arraigned before the court for extortion, for having taken "in some small things, above two for one," was guilty of sin and should be excommunicated from the church, or only publicly admonished. Adshead "Tamerlane and the Global Arsenal, 1370-1405" (etext of selection form larger book on Central Asia) Ilya Gruntov Monumenta Altaica: Altaic Linguistics (devoted to linguistic and historical analyses of Turkic, Mongolian, Japanese, Manchu-Tungus, and Korean languages; sections on "monumental" texts, grammars, articles, and more; in English or Russian) Mike Edwards and Jim Stanfield (National Geographic Society) The Land of Genghis Khan (photographic essay, maps, legacy of Genghis Khan in modern Mongolia) The Secret History of the Mongols (overview of history of medieval text on Mongols, plus bibliography) (Ilya Gruntov) A Country Study: Nepal (historical, cultural, political and economic information, from ancient to modern times, arranged by topic) (Andrea Matles Savada, Library of Congress, Washington, DC) A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict (exhibit materials, arranged by subject) (New York Public Library) A Country Study: Singapore (historical, cultural, political and economic information, from ancient to modern times, arranged by topic) (Barbara Leitch Lepoer, Library of Congress, Washington, DC) Sri Lanka: A Country Study (historical, cultural, political and economic information, from ancient to modern times, arranged by topic) (Russell R.

I have a notion that the lunch was a mere show, except of course for the man with the white hair, who was really hungry and who, besides, must have had the pleasant sense of dominating the situation. Thus, Venice, which had done so much to destroy the power and civilization of Romania, nevertheless played a significant role in preserving its heritage. If the King of England had not set forth to the Crusade till he was sovereign of Scotland, the crescent might, for me and all true-hearted Scots, glimmer for ever on the walls of Zion.'' Thus far he had proceeded, when, suddenly recollecting himself, he muttered, ``Mea culpa! mea culpa! what have I, a soldier of the Cross, to do with recollection of war betwixt Christian nations?'' The rapid expression of feeling, corrected by the dictates of duty, did not escape the Moslem, who, if he did not entirely understand all which it conveyed, saw enough to convince him with the assurance, that Christians, as well as Moslemah, had private feelings of personal pique, and national quarrels, which were not entirely reconcilable.

This includes Poe and Hawthorne, as well as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Oh, ay, Conrade of Montserrat,---who knows not the popinjay? Petticoats are reinforced, partly with horsehair. The navy conducted an investigation into the cause of the disaster, but it never discovered who was responsible for the explosion. Series includes "When Christ and His Saints Slept", "Time and Chance", "Devil's Brood" and "Lionheart". "Elizabethan" trilogy by George Garrett represents a panorama of Renaissance English life during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods.

Queen Anne Perhaps the most recognizable of Victorian styles, Queen Anne houses quickly gained popularity throughout the entire country from the late 1870's to the beginning of the 1900's. I remember walking into my office one morning and he was sitting on the floor outside the office door. Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), often called the father of history, placed Homer several centuries before himself, around 850 BC.

You know not King Richard--- you have been but shortly wedded to him---your breath might as well combat the west wind when it is wildest, as your words persuade my royal kinsman to pardon a military offence. I have a feeling this is going to be the semester. Late-Victorian Gothic introduces you to the gothic revival of the late 19th century, focusing on gothic fiction produced in the 1880s and the 1890s. All hopes of continuing the war with any prospect of ultimate success were now abandoned, and Richard, while he shed bitter tears over his disappointed hopes of glory, was little consoled by the recollection, that the failure was in some degree to be imputed to the advantages which he had given his enemies by his own hasty and imprudent temper. ``They had not dared to have deserted my father thus,'' he said to De Vaux, in the bitterness of his resentment.---``No slanders they could have uttered against so wise a king would have been believed in Christendom; whereas,---fool that I am! ---I have not only afforded them a pretext for deserting me, but even a colour for casting all the blame of the rupture upon my unhappy foibles.'' These thoughts were so deeply galling to the King, that De Vaux was rejoiced when the arrival of an ambassador from Saladin turned his reflections into a different channel.

Dasein, for Nietzsche, is suspended on the cross between these ontological movements—between an in/different playing of destruction/creation—and time. In some ways, publishers try to emulate the sandwich technique with anthologies but they aren’t doing it quite as scientifically. While both Baroque and Rococo were centered in Europe, Baroque began in Rome and was heavily influenced by the Roman Catholic church, which supported religious themes in painting and the arts as a reaction to the advance of Protestantism.

The greatest peak of first examples of French borrowings in English comes in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Trumbull, the son of a Connecticut colonial governor, received a great honor from his teacher Benjamin West while working on this life-size likeness. The English scientist Sir Humphry Davy, a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “an attitude of admiration, love and worship, [...] a personal response.” [102] He believed that knowledge was only attainable by those who truly appreciated and respected nature.

Though the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries marked an explosion in novel reading and the production of the novels themselves, the widely affordable novel would not become ubiquitous until the middle of the nineteenth century. Orbis Romanus (2008) -- the backstory of the Teutenburg Ambush, a massacre of the Romans by Germanic tribesmen; only 22 minutes long 37 to 42 A. And it occurred to me, too, to wonder what sort of business Mr.

The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (Die vorplatonischen Philosophen, lectures during various semesters at Basel from 1869 to 1876; ed. by Fritz Bornmann and Mario Carpitella for the KGW, vol. But a Second Empire house will always have a high mansard roof. The angel goes on to tell the boy that if he behaves, he will have God as his father. Josephine continually bragged to Virgil Earp's wife, Allie, of the "jackpot" Lake's book had brought her.

During this time, the Londonians witnessed how the quiet streets became crowded with newcomers and how the crumbling buildings grew taller, but more attractive. Until 1910 "South Africa" was a general term for the region, like "West Africa" today. Of course, as outlined above, the great seventeenth century rationalist metaphysical systems of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz exert significant influence on philosophy in the Enlightenment; moreover, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment has a rationalist strain, perhaps best exemplified by the system of Christian Wolff.