They appeared in the first number of the Nineteenth Century for 1882, when New Year's Day gives us a melancholy prediction.
That he took occasion, in the paper on Shelley's life which appeared in the Nineteenth Century for January 1888, to repeat his pet heresy about Shelley's poetry, matters nothing at all.
This is, though doubtless jestful, really a point de repère for the manners of the later nineteenth century as concerns a busy man who likes society.
Mr Arnold is really an industrious, sociable, and moderately cheerful Gray of the nineteenth century; Gray an indolent, recluse, more melancholy Arnold of the eighteenth.
There is too seldom the sensation which Coleridge unconsciously suggested in the poem that heralded the poetry of the nineteenth century.
I have endeavoured, in dealing with the master of all English critics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, to "help the reader who wants criticism.
Thomas Carlyle's genius discovered and summarised Coleridge, and with Coleridge the whole nineteenth century.
At the end of the nineteenth century France has enjoyed the blessings of social equality, enforced by compulsory division of estates, for a hundred years and more.
Time rolled on; one generation succeeded another; the eighteenth century passed away; the nineteenth century came; and still the people made no sign.
And though the pathologists of the nineteenth century have chosen a humbler path, this must not blind us to their merits, or prevent us from being grateful for what they have done.
The same process has been seen in France, where the exclusively inductive philosophy of the eighteenth century preceded a partial resuscitation of deductive philosophy in the nineteenth century.
Intellect, Spanish, outline of the history of the, from the fifth to the middle of the nineteenth century, ii.
Endeavours in the nineteenth century to improve the country, 574.
Outline of the history of the intellect of, from the fifth to the middle of the nineteenth century, 425.
If he cannot do this, he cannot understand the history of Scotland 186 The first and most essential quality of an historian, is a clear perception of the great scientific doctrine of Law.
Now under his command were the complete Twelfth and Nineteenth Corps, and the Eleventh Reserve Corps.
His Eleventh Reserve Corps were Hessians, the Twelfth and Nineteenth Corps were Saxons.
Each fort was constructed on a new model to withstand the highest range and power of offensive artillery forecast in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
This is a frame building, and stands on the northwest corner of Main and Nineteenth streets.
William Nelson was president of his majesty's council in Virginia, and died on the nineteenth of November, 1772, at the age of sixty-one years.
He was educated at Oxford, studied law, and when in his nineteenth year, he was chosen representative for Tewksbury.
Nicholas county, Kentucky, occurred on thenineteenth of August, 1782.
A dozen times I was asked if I saw "the hanging;" and a dozen times I shuddered at the evidence of the prevailing savagism In the nineteenth century, even in the heart of our republic.
State of Rhode Island, who died on the nineteenth of June, 1786; late major general in the service of the United States, and commander of their army in the Southern Department.
The Congress adjourned on the nineteenth of September.
For Mrs. Booth was one of the most striking personalities, and one of the mightiest spiritual forces, of the nineteenth century.
The life of Gavazzi is one of the stirring romances of the nineteenth century.
In front of this relic stands the old market cross; and near by, until within the nineteenth century, were the stocks for vagrants and refractory townsmen.
Above the tops of the closely-planted trees to the right are to be seen the chimneys of a deserted-looking building, raised in the early nineteenth century by a Duke of Portland, in imitation of the Priory Gatehouse at Worksop.
The miniatures were wellnigh lost in the middle of the nineteenth century.
In that year a complete edition was at last published by Dressel from a manuscript in the Vatican containing the rest of the nineteenthand the twentieth Homily.
How can it be thought that an Englishman, or a German, trained under and surrounded by the circumstances of the nineteenth century, should be able to thread all the mazes in the mind of a Gnostic or an Ebionite in the second?
The nineteenth century is not in very many quarters regarded as the goal of things.
The story is splendidly told, the magic circle which the author draws about the reader compelling a complete forgetfulness of prosaic nineteenth century life.
The interest centres in the development of the character of the heroine, a New England girl, whose high-strung temperament is in constant revolt against the confining limitations of nineteenth century surroundings.
On the nineteenth the King's troops marched out from Boston to take some ammunition the people had stored at Concord.
Down to the latter part of the nineteenthcentury only the gliders were successfully used in man flight.
Nineteenth Century Experiments In the early part of the last century an Englishman, Sir George Cayley, made many experiments with gliders and tabulated with great care the results of his investigations.
He realized to its fullest extent the responsibility and magnitude of the act, and declared it was "the central act of his administration and the great event of the nineteenth century.
Most certainly is it not for us, Frenchmen of the nineteenth century, who daily behold the political and social changes which the law of partition is bringing to pass, to question its influence.
In Switzerland the difference which exists between the canton of Uri and the canton of Vaud is equal to that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries; and, properly speaking, Switzerland has never possessed a federal government.
A great part of this interesting prehistoric fortress was barbarously destroyed in the early part of the nineteenth century, much of it being tumbled into the sea and many of the stones used to build the harbour piers.
Down to about the middle of the nineteenth century the custom of lighting bonfires at midsummer prevailed so commonly in France that there was hardly a town or a village, we are told, where they were not kindled.
In Brunswick, also, the need-fire is known to have been repeatedly kindled during the nineteenth century.
A traveller in Southern France at the beginning of the nineteenth century tells us that "the Eve of St. John is also a day of joy for the Provençals.
Certainly the practice of burning a single animal alive in order to save all the others would seem to have been not uncommon in England down to the nineteenth century.
These usages were still in vogue at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but they have now almost disappeared.
In Germany the need-fires would seem to have been popular down to the second half of the nineteenth century.
At Gandersheim down to about the beginning of the nineteenthcentury the need-fire was lit in the common way by causing a cross-bar to revolve rapidly on its axis between two upright posts.
In Northumberland the custom seems to have lasted into the first quarter of the nineteenth century; the fires were lit in the villages and on the tops of high hills, and the people sported and danced round them.
The custom seems to have survived down to the beginning of the nineteenth century; old people could remember and describe the ceremony long after it had fallen into desuetude.
Journeying from Dunkeld to Aberfeldy on Hallowe'en in the first half of the nineteenth century, Sheriff Barclay counted thirty fires blazing on the hill tops, and saw the figures of the people dancing like phantoms round the flames.
At Balquhidder down to the latter part of the nineteenth century each household kindled its bonfire at Hallowe'en, but the custom was chiefly observed by children.
The battleship of Turner has now brought us to the mid-nineteenth century, a time within the memories of living men, and still our journey is not ended.
The historical sense, which has driven some modern artists to much antiquarian research to discover exactly what Peter and Paul must have worn, did not exist before the nineteenth century.
Before the nineteenth century, pictures of the same date in the same country were painted in approximately the same style.
Knox, in The Nineteenth Century,[3] "without feeling for Voltaire reverence and respect.
In a recent number of The Nineteenth Century, Mr. Alex.
They judge the license of the eighteenth century--the license and profligacy which accompany ecclesiasticism and monasticism--by nineteenth century standards.
It is a thousand pities; but you will certainly not reach above the nineteenth heaven.
What is it to me whether I go into the nineteenth or the twentieth, provided I do my duty in my pilgrimage, and am well received at the end of my journey?
Irishmen had lain quiescent, persuaded that in this seventh decade of the nineteenth century, some humanizing influences would be found to sway that power that in the past, at least, had ever been so merciless to Irish victims.
Still the Irish people would not credit that, far towards the close of the nineteenth century, an act so dreadful durst be done.
If we of this nineteenth century have learned to tolerate and treat with respect the beliefs of others though widely divergent from our own, perhaps this wretched drama was not acted in vain.
Just as he was entering his nineteenth year, young Davy began the study of chemistry, as a branch of his profession.
He regarded the British Empire as one of the two great dominions the shadow of which was oppressing the world in the middle of the nineteenth century, the other being Russia.
In the nineteenth century a monster warship was built on the Thames, type of the spirit of that age.
So judged, the Légende will take its place amongst the best that the nineteenth century produced in poetry.
Child of the nineteenth century, as he was in so many respects, in many of the features of his art he belongs to no era, and conforms to no tendency, except that of his own Titanic genius.
These may be said to constitute the scientific revolution of the nineteenth century, giving occasion for reconstructing the popular conceptions of the universe.
But his abiding view of woman was that of the plain man of the nineteenth century.
When one thinks of the long years of denunciation and hatred he endured for the sake of his art, one cannot but regard him as one of the heroic figures of the nineteenth century.
It was the romantic; revival of the nineteenth century that placed Ronsard on a throne again.
In this he is prophetic of much of the greatest French literature of the nineteenth century.
There was no other English writer of the nineteenth century who to the same degree made all human experiences his own.
In short, a young "gent" of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
This low, cynical nineteenth century blackguardism thinks of nothing but lowness, and has no ideal.
But his father was one of the most wonderful men of the nineteenth century--Robert Owen of New Lanark--and this book gives the true history of his great success.
Quite late in life he wrote: "The nineteenth century is quite as wonderful in the domain of History as in that of Science.
Subsequently Gurney and Myers associated their name with Barrett's in a paper on the subject, published in the Nineteenth Century.
Can such things be in this nineteenth century, and the wise ones pass away in utter ignorance of their existence?
This primitive appliance increased his interest in other astronomical instruments, and especially in the grand onward march of astronomical discovery, which he looked upon as one of the wonders of the nineteenth century.
In Europe and America the phenomenon of automatic writing first came into notice as an element in so-called "modern spiritualism" about the middle of the nineteenth century; but the writings of W.
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