... to the Witwatersrand when gold mining began there in 1886 eastern africa The eastern interior was one of the most isolated parts of Africa until the eighteenth century, when it was drawn into the ... One wasthe Luba kingdom in the Katanga region, which disintegrated in the 1870s when coastal traders introduced firearms into a succession conflict The other wasthe Shambaa kingdom in the northeast ... himself’.11 The western savanna also experienced two jihads during thenineteenth century, but they created less stability The first, in 1818, was in the internal delta of the Niger, hitherto controlled...
... 1844).2 The role of assigned to the caixa in the mutual association was clearly ancillary: according to the first statutes of the Montepio, the purpose of the CEMG was to contribute towards the broad ... discussions about the financial stability of the institution, before the first years of the twentieth century, when actuarial concerns started to prevail Throughout thenineteenth century, the dominant ... Directors elected by the General Assembly to whom it was accountable The Board wasthe responsible for the management of the assets of the Montepio following a broad mandate by the General Assembly...
... was one of its students A few years ago a history of the school was published, and a copy of the book was loaned me by the late Mrs Lucius Tuckerman of Washington, whose mother was educated there ... were restored to the good graces of the English throne, and it was Scotland that was compelled to bear the brunt of the royal displeasure The sins of the fathers were visited upon their children, ... deportment There was one of these which was known as the "excellence medal," and the exultant pupil upon whom it was bestowed was allowed the privilege of wearing it for two weeks Upon it was inscribed...
... Abbotsford was his weakness, but it was no ignoble weakness If the ideal of the life which he proposed to himself there was scarcely a heroic one, neither was it vulgar or selfish The artist or the ... not the water that gave interest to the ship but the ship to the water "What was it attracted the thousands to the launch? They might have seen the poetical 'calm water' at Wapping or in the ... finish the poem Brandl thinks that the idea was taken from the curtained picture in the "Mysteries of Udolpho"; and he also considers that the general situation the castle, the forest, the old father...
... respectively, the improvement of their several tools the telescope and the quadrant on the one side, and the calculus on the other—keeping pace The whole future of the science seemed to be theirs The cessation ... absorb their popularity The rise of Herschel wasthe one conspicuous anomaly in the astronomical history of the eighteenth century It proved decisive of the course of events in thenineteenth It was ... Astronomy—Progress of the Science during the Eighteenth Century Popularity and Rapid Advance during theNineteenthCentury PART I PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THENINETEENTHCENTURY CHAPTER...
... to remark that I was three years old when I was baptized, in 1810, in the chapel at Fontainebleau The emperor was my godfather, and the Empress Marie Louise was my godmother Then my memory carries ... purple, on the top of the catafalque, twenty feet from the ground, was enclosed the coffin of the Emperor; but it was not so The sailors of the "Belle Poule" protested that the catafalque was too ... from their bed, rushed into the main building The noise had proceeded from the duchess's chamber They knocked at the door, but there was no answer, only low moans They consulted together, and then...
... his constant request was hoo it doos." He investigated the course of the water from the duckpond to the river, and the courses of the bell-wires from the pulls to the bells in the kitchen, " action ... to the Cambridge and THE ORCE RF JAMES CLERK MAXWELL 13 Dublin Mathematical Journal; he was also elected into the Apostles' Club; so-called from the number of the members; their object wasthe ... tracing-point to one of the foci; the curve then described is the oval of Descartes He also found out how to it when twice the distance from one focus plus three times the distance from the other focus is...
... Robin Small Dilthey Michael Lessnoff Logic and the philosophy of mathematics in thenineteenthcentury John Stillwell Philosophy of biology in thenineteenthcentury Jagdish Hattiangadi The separation ... harmful to others even though the views expressed, or the acts in question, were those towards which theThenineteenthcentury majority felt repugnance Utilitarian theory was developed further by ... utilitarianism If the vulgar’ are told the truth that utilitarianism is the ultimate basis for their conduct, then they are likely to produce bad results as they miscalculate the consequences of their actions...
... impact on the Others as Britain and France did in thenineteenthcenturyThe history of thenineteenthcenturywas made in and by Europe, to an extent that cannot be said of either the eighteenth ... thenineteenthwasthe age of their global application As a result of these persistent efforts, it became possible to grasp the world in its entirety The maps produced around the end of thecentury ... become the paramount genre in the theater By the 1830s it was generally considered to be at the top of the artistic hierarchy This progression was paralleled in the Beijing opera, which at mid-century...
... seems to them for the good of the republic or the prince, regardless of the consequences to themselves, then they fail of their duty; and if they advise it, then it is at the risk of their position ... on the brain of the living —Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte1 Concern with the philosopher’s voice did not originate ex nihilo with the dawning of thenineteenthcentury Rather, the ... leads them to make the dilemma posed by the rhetorical and political nature of philosophy a central focal point of their political theory and practice The philosophers of thenineteenth century...
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... During the early and mid -nineteenth century these questions were widely debated and were made all the more contentious by the recent evolution in the understanding of the word ‘genius’ The importance ... 1831 By the second half of thenineteenth century, the gap between the ‘historical’ Newton, created by the expert community, and the ‘mythical’ Newton, celebrated by men of science and the public ... biography The tension between these two factors, especially whenthe contents of the manuscripts undermined the story’s moral, has been noted, as has the acceptability of a resolution involving the...
... eighteenth century by aesthetic theorists such as Joseph Addison at the beginning of thecentury and Immanuel Kant at the end More specifically, the cult of the Sublime was given major impetus ... of Africa The impact of the landscape was not always submerged beneath a welter of pleasing associations For George Thompson, another traveller in the first quarter of thenineteenth century, ... or at all pleasant Rather they were 'almost oppressive to the heart.'10 In fact, the immensity, grandeur and the daunting otherness of certain parts of the African landscape was only properly conveyed...
... what wasthe Theology of their Fathers’ (VM i, p i) In fact, the generations between Routh and Newman were Xuent in the Fathers.23 The diVerence was that Routh remained a constant friend of the ... in the Anglican Church, his Wrst theological formation owed little to the scholastics [rather,] owing to him, the great theological style of the Fathers has been worthily revived in thenineteenth ... encourage others to the same.’ After the Wrst twelve Records, there was a shift in theme made possible by the fact the early martyr Justin also left an ‘account of Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and the...