... always brings to mind the pathetic history of Theodosia Burr, Aaron Burr's only child, and her saddeath; while the name of Washington Allston, the artist, is too well known to be dwelt upon.After ... the Young Pretender's cause were restored tothe good graces of the Englishthrone, and it was Scotland that was compelled to bear the brunt of the royal displeasure. The sins of the fathers ... from the extreme point of the world to Constantinople wecould furnish you with them, but I doubt whether they could raise the money to pay their passage from the gutof Gibraltar upwards. The...
... for the time to come—rather the methods employed than the results actually secured rendered the first half of thenineteenthcentury of epochal importance in the history of our knowledge of the ... Gascoigne, the inventor of the micrometer; but most of those who were capable of thinking at all on such subjects (and they were but few) adhered either tothe cloud theory or tothe slag theory ... was to be still further tried. Clouds, mist, and sleet seemed to have conspired to cover the retreat of the fugitive; but on the last night of the year the sky cleared unexpectedly with the...
... 16:0Regional diversity in thenineteenthcentury 179southern africa During the early nineteenthcenturythe African peoples of southern Africaused two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation ... emerged duringthe 1860s. In the north, the Ngoni role was takenby the pastoral Maasai. After gaining control of the Rift Valley, Maasai groupsspent much of thenineteenthcentury fighting one another ... firearms until the last years of the century. The intensification of conflict between Tutsi and Hutu during this period was due rather tothe multiplication of aristocratic lineages,their violent...
... 1844).2 The role of assigned tothe caixa in the mutual association was clearly ancillary: according tothe first statutes of the Montepio, the purpose of the CEMG was to contribute towards the ... until the next major crisis, World War I. In 1895, the Caixa also had to come to terms with a yet another minor bank run to the deposits fueled by rumors of borrowing tothe Government. The ... limited to stories, or had a negative balance against the beginning of 1072 stories. To solve the problem the Board has used the capital in cash, which sought to increase by decreasing the credit....
... Coleridge were wandering together over the Somerset downs and along the coastof Devon, catching glimpses of the sea towards Bristol or Linton, and now and then of the skeleton masts andgossamer ... that the heart is reached, andthat tears come into the reader's eyes, as they must have done into the poet's. A dozen such passages occur atonce tothe memory; the last stand of the ... then of thenineteenth century; afterwards to do the same with Ariosto and Tasso and compare the results. It would be found that, while the eighteenth century set no very high value on Ariosto and...
... one of his brothers' old châteaux, having his rooms in the upper story, to superintend the garden, to shoot with the curé, to look after the horses, to play with the children, to make up agame ... share tothe elder brother, to whom he owed his domestic happiness. In the end, all the property of the family came tothe poet; the aunts and uncles the former of whom had been drivenfrom their ... from time to time they visited in company with their father.In the middle of the summer of 1847 it was arranged that the whole family should go tothe seaside, and theycame up to Paris to pass...
... timeenteredon the studyof the ConicSections,andhetookup the probleminhislaboratory.He modified the manner oftracinganellipseby doubling the cordfrom the tracing-point to one of the foci; the ... existence of the molecules or the identityoftheirproperties to anyof the causes whichwecall natural.On the otherhand, the exactqualityofeachmolecule to all others of the samekindgivesit,as ... whicharrivesin the conductibleformat the limitsof the atmosphereofa starorplanet,willthere betotallyconverted,partlyintoordinarymotionby the expansionof the atmosphere,andpartlyinto the...
... first to translate the sentences in which these terms occurinto equivalent sentences in which the vague terms are replaced by terms referring to entities that are real and perceptible by the ... because the dominant part, the middle rank of society, is also the most virtuous and the one whoseopinions are most respected by the class of people below them. They are the ones to set the political ... what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. This...
... impact on the Others” as Britain and France didin thenineteenth century. The history of thenineteenthcentury was made in and by Europe, to anextent that cannot be said of either the eighteenth ... But history gathers them all together; it is the sum total of all these neighbors, ofthese joint ownerships, of this endless interaction.”13 In each subarea, therefore, I look for the distinctive ... arithmetic” to gather data about the present day. So what was new in thenineteenth century? Improved observation techniques,institutions to preserve the results, a more objective approach. It was the nineteenth...
... be loyal to their families and their peoples in order to preservethem. Only if they think their own things are good can they rest content with them.A father must prefer his child to other children, ... ridding themselves of this “toxic shame,” Gloverargues, men can stop trying to be “good” for others, hiding their flaws, and trying to become“what they believe other people want them to be.” ... decreased the honor given to those who kept the code (see“Egalit arianism” below), making them more likely to opt-out t oo, and the cycle would continue,unraveling the honor code further.As the...
... common to Justin and the Protevangelium [Endnote 130:1]. This, too, maybelong tothe older original of the latter work. The other verbal coincidences with the Gospel according to the Hebrews in the ... urged the fact that they quote passages peculiar both to the first and the third Gospel; on the other hand, one of their quotations, [Greek: pollakis epethuaesaakousai hena ton logon touton], ... areadded in the margin to call attention tothe more remarkable points, especially tothe repetition of the samequotation in different writers and tothe apparent bearing of the passage upon the general...