Eighteenth Sentence Examples

Christina assumed the sceptre in her eighteenth year (Dec. 8, 1644).

At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.

The reign of Josiah is important for the biblical account of the great religious reforms which began in his eighteenth year, when he manifested interest in the repair of the Temple at Jerusalem.

He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth year entered the Church, joining the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary (also known as the Picpus Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion.

At the time he sent it to Grimald Walafrid had, as he himself tells us, hardly passed his eighteenth year, and he begs his correspondent to revise his verses, because, "as it is not lawful for a monk to hide anything from his abbot," he fears he may be beaten with deserved stripes.

His father died when he was in his eighteenth year, and he was indebted for his university education to one of the members of his father's family.

Another edition, containing the eighteenth book and a fragment of the nineteenth, was published by Ferrerius, who has added an appendix of thirtyfive pages (Paris, 1574).

On Paley as a theologian and philosopher, see Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, i.

One of the most characteristic works of Cormenin is the Livre des orateurs, a series of brilliant studies of the principal parliamentary orators of the restoration and the monarchy of July, the first edition of which appeared in 1838, and the eighteenth in 1860.

In the Phoenician alphabet a sibilant Zade (Tzaddi) stands between q and p. Hence Q is the nineteenth letter in the Phoenician alphabet, the eighteenth in the Greek numerical alphabet, which alone contains it, the sixteenth (owing to the omission of 8 and E) in the Latin, and (from the addition of J) the seventeenth in the English alphabet.

See Warwick Wroth, London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1896).

On the 1st of November 1796, in accordance with the will of his father, Gustavus IV., now in his eighteenth year, took the government into his own hands.

Luisa Sigea was both an orientalist and a Latin poetess, while Publia Hortensia de Castro, after a course of humanities, philosophy and theology, defended theses at Evora in her eighteenth year.

In 1657, on his eighteenth birthday, he preached his first sermon; in the same year he went to visit his eldest brother in Dublin, and studied there at Trinity College, where he graduated M.A.

In size Michigan ranks eighteenth among the states of the Union, its total area being 57,9 80 sq.

In the Old Town still remain a few specimens of eighteenth century architecture, including several old-fashioned post-houses, which used to furnish entertainment for travellers starting for the Middle West by way of the old Cumberland Road beginning at Fort Cumberland, and from Baltimore to Fort Cumberland by a much older turnpike.

Rosa exhibits the embalmed body of that saint, a native of Viterbo, who died in her eighteenth year, after working various miracles and having distinguished herself by her invectives against Frederick II.

A few years after the union of Kalmar, Eric, now in his eighteenth year, was declared of age and homage was rendered to him in all his three kingdoms, but during her lifetime Margaret was the real ruler of Scandinavia.

But he was also the severe and capable administrator who during years of hard work at the admiralty did more than any other to raise the navy from the state of corruption and indiscipline into which it had fallen during the first half of the eighteenth century.

From 1723 to 1743 came the mealy- eighteenth mouthed despotism of Cardinal Fleury, and his century.

Having had personal experience of the unremunerative character both of music and of mathematics, he desired that his son should apply himself to the cultivation of medicine, and, not without some straining of his slender resources, placed him, before he had completed his eighteenth year, at the university of Pisa.

In the period of the Egyptian suzerainty over Palestine in the eighteenth dynasty Damascus (whose name frequently appears in the Tell el-Amarna tablets) was capital of the small province of Ubi.

The average user is strangely absent, like the laborer in eighteenth century landscape painting.

Eighteenth century redware sherds and a fragment of Spanish amphora have been recovered from the foreshore in this area.

The great west window and the rose window date from the early eighteenth century and remarkably in 1965 the Abbey celebrated its 900th anniversary.

During the eighteenth century, wine bottles continued to dominate the glass assemblage, with the exception of window glass.

We were filmed making Eighteenth Dynasty core formed glass for the program on Egypt, and mold blown circus beakers for the Roman program.

Curtis was coming up the eighteenth, needing a birdie for a play-off.

This flat brass candlestick is a typically eighteenth century design, as candlesticks became taller during the nineteenth century.

Many copies were made by European ceramists in the eighteenth century.

Death is also a preoccupation of eighteenth century classicism.

On the opposite bank of the river was a classical colonnade, which was washed away in the floods of the late eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century, pigeon were very much a part of classic British cookery.

The poem is in the form of rhyming pentameter couplets, sometimes called heroic couplets, the favorite poetic form of the eighteenth century.

Secret societies emerged in Ireland in the eighteenth century, using direct action to express agrarian discontent.

Did you know, for example, that eighteenth century dramatists routinely changed his endings because they were too tragic?

Even the two volumes which include extant educationists contain 29 subjects born in the eighteenth century and only 18 from the twentieth.

In the eighteenth century the Newtonian universe was rapidly encroaching.

The tower is an eighteenth century folly built in an effort to raise the height of the hill to 1000ft.

To the eighteenth century gentry MP his country was much more his county than England.

During the eighteenth century hinged two piece molds were introduced, allowing the glassmaker to exert greater control over the shaping of the bottle.

The gardens are renowned for their rare and unusual trees collected by intrepid plant hunters during the Eighteenth Century.

Collections include autograph manuscripts of composers from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

Materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism was the standpoint of the rising bourgeoisie.

Locating the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin also examines the specificities of minority nationalisms in the nineteenth century.

He then studied at Cardiff University for an MA in Eighteenth Century English Music and, in particular, English oratorio of the period.

A short novel, written as an eighteenth century pastiche.

The Gorsedd, as we know it today, was founded by a late eighteenth century Welsh polymath called Edward Williams.

Rescued by the Trust in 1986, it is in its eighteenth year of painstaking restoration.

Artistic Director, Barrie Rutter, takes as his inspiration the cartoons and caricatures of celebrated eighteenth century satirist, James Gillray.

And featuring a slew of original recipes so you can concoct eighteenth century remedies in the comfort of your own home.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mountain farmers used to follow a practice called transhumance.

It was removed by some Vandals about the end of the eighteenth century.

For administrative purposes the country is divided into seventeen montons (or divisions) each in charge of a high commissioner, and an eighteenth, including Bangkok and the surrounding suburban provinces, under the direct control of the minister for metropolitan government (see Bangkok).

At birth it is proportionately much larger than in the adult, and forms one eighteenth instead of one r??"` fortieth of the body weight, /``?

Was it a Jew who inspired Rousseau with the eighteenth century idea of the sameness of man according to nature?

Coral snuff bottles from the eighteenth century are relatively rare.

The Big House was an early eighteenth century square four storied house with whitewashed walls covered in climbing roses.

On August 29, the United States conducted its eighteenth subcritical nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.

This shift at the end of the eighteenth century also opened the way to a wider toleration of theological diversity within the church.

These include a particularly good set of eighteenth century tradesmen 's bills.

It was removed by some vandals about the end of the eighteenth century.

Dumfries Museum is centered around the eighteenth century windmill tower which stands above the town.

Surrounding the front garden were eighteenth century black wrought iron railings, tipped with gold paint.

It is said that sometime between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the hand-block printing industry, which originated in Sanganer, a town outside of Jaipur, began exporting these intricate and beautiful textiles to Europe in bulk.

Modern naturopathy grew out of the alternative health philosophies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but it has its beginnings in the studies of the ancient scholars in Greece.

In the late eighteenth century, French-speaking immigrants arrived from Acadia in Nova Scotia, Canada and settled in southern Louisiana.

Many British sailors returned home with tattoos that commemorated their travels, and by the eighteenth century most British ports had at least one tattoo practitioner in residence.

America, and the generic name was given in honor of Dr John Fothergill, famous in the later years of the eighteenth century for his botanical collections at Upton, in Essex.

Homeopathy-A holistic system of treatment developed in the eighteenth century.

Munchausen syndrome takes its name from Baron Karl Friederich von Munchausen, an eighteenth century German military man known for his tall tales.

Diagnosis of DiGeorge syndrome can be made by ultrasound examination around the eighteenth week of pregnancy, when abnormalities in the development of the heart or the palate can be detected.

Over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, masquerade balls became popular throughout continental Europe and England, and eventually in colonial America.

Eighteenth century customs in America might include the exchanging of rings or a bent or broken coin to signify the intention to marry.

Once these early clockmakers came to the United States in the eighteenth century, the alarm clock came with them.

Thus aliens become not unknowable, but simply foreign, and a human can come to know and understand them just as a European traveller of the eighteenth century could come to understand the native American tribes he travelled with.

Plantation life and the New Orleans of the eighteenth century are densely realized.

He was born in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

See John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725); Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (Erlangen, 1802); Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1876), ch.

In his eighteenth year, while still a student in Edinburgh, he contributed two valuable papers to the Transactions of the same society - one of which, " On the Equilibrium of Elastic Solids," is remarkable, not only on account of its intrinsic power and the youth of its author, but also because in it he laid the foundation of one of the most singular discoveries of his later life, the temporary double refraction produced in viscous liquids by shearing stress.

In the eighteenth chapter he records his intention of founding a hall at Oxford, and in connexion with it a library of which his books were to form the nucleus.

In Greek, where I is the twentieth letter of the alphabet, or, if the merely numerical and p are excluded, the eighteenth, another form 1 or S according to the direction of the writing is also widespread.

The government of Buenos Aires enacted that all children born to slaves after the 31st of January 1813 should be free; and in Colombia it was provided that those born after the 16th of July 1821 should be liberated on attaining their eighteenth year.

The latter, however, were to be maintained at the expense of the proprietors up to their eighteenth year, and during that time to be kept, as apprentices, to such work as was suitable for their age.

The tenth canon tolerates the marriages of deacons who previous to ordination had reserved the right to take a wife; the thirteenth forbids chorepiscopi to ordain presbyters or deacons; the eighteenth safeguards the right of the people in objecting to the appointment of a bishop whom they do not wish.

The fifth Lateran council (eighteenth ecumenical) was convened by Pope Julius II.

There was an Indian church in Natick, at what is now called South Natick or " Oldtown," from 1660 to 1716; and for some years the community was governed, in accordance with the eighteenth chapter of Exodus, by " rulers of tens," " rulers of fifties," and " rulers of hundreds."

She succeeded to the throne on her father's death, which took place on the 23rd of November 1890, but until her eighteenth year, when she was "inaugurated" at Amsterdam on the 6th of September 1898, the business of the state was carried on under the regency of the queen-mother, in accordance with a law made on the 2nd of August 1884.

Corps on the right of the German Eighteenth Army was also partly on the Allied front.

Already, in his eighteenth year, he had devoted himself to the collecting, sifting, testing and arranging of traditions.

Herod began the Temple in the eighteenth year of his reign, probably 20-19 B.C., and the Passover of the forty-sixth year is probably that of A.D.

In the eighteenth century besides the pleasure fair, still held in February, there was another in October, now abolished.

Nay more, the reception of the book of Deuteronomy by king and people in the eighteenth year of Josiah shows what a hold the prophetic teaching had on the popular conscience..

Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols., 1856-69), Principles for Churchmen (1884).

For the white and mixed population military service is compulsory; from the eighteenth to the thirtieth year of age in the active army, and from the thirtieth to the fiftieth in the reserve.

In the archonship of Polyzelus (367-366), after the death of his father, in his eighteenth year, he came to Athens, and having joined Plato spent twenty years with him.

Since then numerous congresses have been held, the seventeenth having sat in London in 1908, and the eighteenth at Stockholm in 1910.

Learning his letters first from the parish priest, he was sent at an early age to the claustral school at Evesham and thence, in his eighteenth year, to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, as a Benedictine student.

After the retaking of Jerusalem and recovery of the Cross from the Persians in the eighteenth year of his reign, Heraclius called a mixed council at Karin (Theodosiopolis) of Greeks and Armenians under Ezr (Esdras), catholicus, at which the preceding council of Dvin was cursed, its reforms repudiated and the confession of Chalcedon adopted.

In the latter city he studied from his eighteenth year, and there, after making the pilgrimage in 1253, he settled as a private scholar until 1267, when he succeeded Abu Shama as professor of tradition at the Ashrafiyya school.

In his eighteenth year he was sent to the court of his cousin Sten Sture.

Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century (8 vols., London, 1878-1890) and Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (enlarged edition, 2 vols., 1903).

In 1850 a record of the capture of this city from the Hyksos by Ahmosi, the founder of the eighteenth dynasty, was discovered by the same scholar.

We know, however, that the vizier of Upper Egypt (at Thebes) in the eighteenth dynasty, had 40 (not 42) parchment rolls laid before him as he sat in the hall of audience.

On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.

Is the ferment of the peoples of the west at the end of the eighteenth century and their drive eastward explained by the activity of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, their mistresses and ministers, and by the lives of Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, Beaumarchais, and others?