Doubtless there were influences leading up to the remarkable landscape painting of this century.
The Sunday school, which was first set on foot about the middle of this century,[679] was regarded with suspicion by many of the clergy, and vehemently opposed by some.
In this century, and to some extent in the last, many of its warmest opponents have been Broad Churchmen.
A Presbyter of the Church of England,' writing in the first year of this century, said that, except among the Evangelical clergy, it was almost confined to that season.
Our romances," as the brothers had noted forty years earlier, "will supply the greatest number of facts and absolute truths to the moral history of this century.
Every one in this century of ours has a right to wear a black coat--provided he can pay for it.
Eloquent and active, he could make all the noise and stir which lead a man on to success in this centuryof ours.
We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction.
Drake, in his "Shakespeare and his Times," gives a graphic and indeed charming picture of the rural life of this century, drawn from Harrison and other sources.
In the first half of this century, sermons, orthodox sermons, were published and read.
People are beginning to see that no amount of eloquence, or faith, or erudition, or authority, can make the records of barbarism satisfactory to the heart and brain of this century.
In this century, in one direction, I think the mind has reached the limit.
Wogan was Viceroy during the close of this century, and had ample occupation pacifying the Geraldines and Burkes--an occupation in which he was not always successful.
But the Convent of Multifarnham was the great glory of this century.
Before the middle of this century (the thirteenth) three of the most important families had become extinct.
This can be the Congress that helped us end the longest war in the Nation's history, and end it in a way that will give us at last a genuine chance to enjoy what we have not had in this century: a full generation of peace.
No goal could be greater than to make the next generation the first in this century in which America was at peace with every nation in the world.
The first half of this century will be known as the most turbulent and eventful period in recorded history.
They are among the many who in this century, far from home, have died for our country.
This century is what is properly known as the Silver Age.
Since the first sun of this century rose, the intellectual colony of Arabia, once called Christendom, has been in a state of partial and blind revolt.
But Montacute was not one of those young heroes who rendered so distinguished the earlier part of this century.
Here, then, is the problem of the West, as it looked to New England leaders of thought in the beginning and at the end of this century.
If the reader would see a picture of the representative Kansas Populist, let him examine the family portraits of the Ohio farmer in the middle of this century.
A group of them is here given which were all used in old New England houses in the early part of this century.
We cannot be grateful enough for the temperance reform, which began at the early part of this century, and was so sadly needed.
It was doubtless very simple in shape, as were its successors until well into this century.
Though various processes for lighting in which sulphur was used in a match shape, were brought before the public at the beginning of this century, they were complicated, expensive, and rarely seen.
Until the middle of this century poplar-wood trenchers and plates were used on the table in Vermont, and were really attractive dishes.
That the earth has had a history and that man could read it became more and more thoroughly understood as the first decades of this century passed.
It is true that the doctrine of evolution was no new doctrine with the middle of this century, for it had been conceived somewhat vaguely before.
A great part, therefore, of the service of the church, in this century [A.
The supremacy of the see of Rome advanced with rapid strides during this century.
In this century is the first instance of the burning alive of a heretic, and it was Spain who lighted that first pile.
But the great body of Gaelic verse of the first half of this century is known under the name of "The Contentions of the Bards," the subject being the relative dignity, power, and prowess of the North and South.
It must not be forgotten that about the beginning of this century a club of Bons-vivant used to meet frequently in the Château.
The first was formed in Quebec, about the beginning of this century.
Galle on the twenty-third of September, 1846, was one of the most important events in the intellectual history of this century.
One battle in this centuryrises in fame above all other conflicts of the ages.
Up to about the close of the third quarter of this century, the belief continued to prevail in the possibility of the propagation and production of germ life without other germ life to precede it.
No characteristic of this century is so prominent as this intense activity and aggressive energy.
Before the middle of this century, it was known that the future of astronomy depended upon the refracting lens, and not on the speculum.
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