Ritter Sentence Examples

Humboldt's contemporary, Carl Ritter (1779-1859), extended and disseminated the same views, and in his interpretation of " Comparative Geography " he laid stress on the importance of Iditter.

Ritter was led deeper and deeper into the study of history and archaeology.

During the rapid development of physical geography many branches of the study of nature, which had been included in the cosmography of the early writers, the physiography of Linnaeus and even the Erdkunde of Ritter, had been as so much advanced by the labours of specialists that their connexion was apt to be forgotten.

This argument was tacitly accepted or explicitly avowed by almost every writer on the theory of geography, and Carl Ritter distinctly recognized and adopted it as the unifying principle of his system.

This was the central theme of Ritter's philosophy; his religion and his geography were one, and the consequent fervour with which he pursued his mission goes far to account for the immense influence he acquired in Germany.

It is owing to these leading orographical features - divined by Carl Ritter, but only recently ascertained and established as fact by geographical research - that so many of the great Rivers.

Ritter (1890) have since observed a similar early origin for the germ-cells in the midge Chironomus and in the Aphidae.

This is due as much to the inspiriting teachings of Ritter and Humboldt as to the general culture and scientific training combined with technical skill commanded by the men who more especially devote themselves to this branch of geography, which elsewhere is too frequently allowed to fall into the hands of mere mechanics.

The accounts of medieval thought given by Ritter, Erdmann and Ueberweg in their general histories of philosophy are exceedingly good.

See Ritter, Geschichte der Philosophie, iv.

The Ritter Akademie, founded by the emperor Joseph I.

To 1 First described by the Turk, Haj j i Khalifa, in the 37th century; first seen by the Swedish traveller Otter in 1736, and first published in 1840 in Ritter's Erdkunde, iii., after a drawing by Major Fischer, made in 1837.

See Schmidt, Dissertatio de Anaximensis psychologia (Jena, 1869); Ritter and Preller, Historia Phil.

Ritter,' Vieta was brought up as a Catholic, and died in the same creed; but there can be no doubt that he belonged to the Huguenots for several years.

Also Zeller, Socrates and the Socratic Schools; Dyeck, De Megaricorum doctrines (Bonn, 1827); Mallet, Histoire de l'ecole de Megare (Paris, 1845); Ritter, Ober die Philosophie der r meg.

On June 24 1917 the Emperor appointed as prime minister his former tutor, the Ritter von Seidler,2 who summoned a Ministry of mere officials, just to carry on business for the time being; any constitutional reorganization was still postponed.

The first mountain range on this higher terrace is Ritter's range, covered in part with extensive snow-fields.

Valdemar was brought up at the court of the German emperor, Louis of Bavaria, during those miserable years when the realm of Denmark was partitioned among Holstein counts and German Ritter, while Scania, "the bread-basket" of the monarchy, sought deliverance from anarchy under the protection of Magnus of Sweden.

The histories of Haureau, Ritter, Prantl and Windelband may also be consulted.

See Ritter and Preller §§ 477, 4 88, 489; Tacitus, Annals, xv.

Arabic and other writers are given in Ritter, Erdkunde x.

For fragments see Ritter and Preller, Hist.

So, too, in the Empire a dubbed knight is " ritter geschlagen."

Of the three great military and religious orders, branches survive of two, the Teutonic Order (Der hohe deutsche Ritter Orden or Marianen Orden) and the Knights of St John of Jerusalem (Johanniter Orden, Malteser Orden), for the history of which and the present state see Teutonic Order and ST John Of Jerusalem, Knights Of The Order Of.

Ritter (Amsterdam, 1898), containing a series of articles on all subjects connected with the kingdom during the second half of the 19th century, written by specialists; and Les Pays Bas (Leiden, 1899), and La Hollande geographique, ethnologique, politique, &c. (Paris, 1900), both works of the same class as the preceding.

Count Auersperg's first publication, a collection of lyrics, Bleitter der Liebe (1830), showed little originality; but his second production, Der letzte Ritter (1830), brought his genius to light.

Some critics also maintain that his hand is to be recognized in several series of small blocks done about the same date or somewhat later for Bergmann and other printers of Basel, some of them being illustrations to Terence (which were never printed), some to the romance of the Ritter vom Turm, and some to the Narrenschiff of Sebastian Brandt.

The Almanach of the following year, 1798, was even more noteworthy, for it contained a number of Schiller's most popular ballads, "Der Ring des Poly-krates," "Der Handschuh," "Ritter Toggenburg," "Der Taucher," "Die Kraniche des Ibykus" and "Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer;" "Der Kampf mit dem Drachen" following in 1799, and "Das Lied von der Glocke" in 1800.

See Ritter and Preller, §§ 1 59166; Brandis, Commentationum eleaticarum, pt.

Ritter (1776-1810), ardently prosecuted research with the new instrument.

On the latter occasion the work of destruction was carried out so thoroughly that only one house escaped; this being a quaintly decorated erection in the Marktplatz, which is now the Hotel zum Ritter.

The popular song "Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter," commemorates the victory of Belgrade.

Finally, we read the full story in the original draft of Giles Tschudi's chronicle, where the hero is described as "a man of Unterwalden, of the Winkelried family," this being expanded in the final recension of the chronicle (1564) into "a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winckelried by name, a brave knight," while he is entered (in the same book, on the authority of the "Anniversary Book" of Stans, now lost) on the list of those who fell at Sempach at the head of the Nidwalden (or Stans) men as "Herr Arnold von Winckelriet, Ritter," this being in the first draft "Arnold Winckelriet."

Ritter's scenario begins to look probable, if not real.

Together with a wicked sheriff stepfather (John Ritter) in tow this sets the scene for a splendid road movie killing spree.

Predictably, the right wing in America are now calling Ritter an Iraqi stooge.

A useful ornithological bibliography of the Austrian-Hungarian dominions was printed in the Verhandlungen of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna for 1878, by Victor Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofen.

Humboldt, Ehrenberg and Gustav Rose also paid in the course of these years short visits to Siberia, and gave a new impulse to the accumulation of scientific knowledge; while Ritter elaborated in his Asien (1832-1859) the foundations of a sound knowledge of the structure of Siberia.

See Karl Ritter, "Asien," vol.

Large tortoises abound, and, in the `Ain el-'Arus pool, fresh-water turtles and carp. Of domestic Ritter, Erdkunde, xi.

It is possible that its 6 Ritter, Erdkunde, xi.

Great light has been thrown upon Sarpi's real belief and the motives of his conduct by the letters of Christoph von Dohna, envoy of Christian, prince of Anhalt, to Venice, published by Moritz Ritter in the Briefe and Acten zur Geschichte des dreissigjahrigen Krieges, vol.

The emotional wrongful death case of actor John Ritter, most well known for his role as Jack Tripper on the sitcom Three's Company, came to an end today with the jury clearing the doctors of any wrong doing.

On September 11, 2003 John Ritter suddenly collapsed on the set of his show 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.

It was later discovered that Ritter's death was due to a torn aorta.

Amy Yasbeck, Ritter's widow, later brought on a $67 million wrongful death suit.

Under the claim, Yasbeck stated that Dr. Lotysch, a radiologist, was negligent regarding a body scan he performed on Ritter in 2003.

Yasbeck and the Ritter children claimed that Dr. Lotysch should have detected the problem with the aorta at that time.

Dr. Lee, also named in the lawsuit, was the cardiologist that treated Ritter after his collapse.

The jury ultimately sided with doctors Lee and Lotysch, clearing both the doctors of any wrong doing and dismissing the Ritter family's wrongful death case.

After Night Court, Post appeared in another sitcom called Hearts Afire, co-starring with John Ritter.

The most commonly used is the American Optical/Hardy, Rand, and Ritter Pseudoisochromatic Test.

John Ritter starred as Bob, the store manager.

This was the last film for Ritter, who passed away in September of 2003, shortly before the movie was released.

Ritter and Thornton had previously worked together in Sling Blade, written and directed by Thornton.

Bad Santa (Director's Cut), which has a few additions, including a tribute to Ritter.

Felicity's impulsiveness continues to follow her as she and Noel spend a careless night together despite Felicity's continued involvement with Ben and Ben coping with his alcoholic father (John Ritter).

Matt Ritter (Micah Alberti) is the heir apparent to Raintree despite his best efforts to avoid the family business.

Kris' skill with Wildfire may help put Raintree Farms back on the map and save the Ritter family.

Kris' affection for Matt Ritter is another difficulty to overcome.

Andrew Hoeft plays Todd, Matt's younger brother and the quirkier member of the Ritter family.

Like many small town kids, friends Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler were less than excited about what their town of Stillwater, Oklahoma had to offer as far as entertainment was concerned.

In the beginning, it was just a two man band with Ritter on vocals and bass and Wheeler handling the guitar and programming.

The All American Rejects released their first album Same Girl, New Songs on indie label Doghouse in 2001 when Ritter was 17 and Wheeler was 18.

Tyson Ritter was born at a Van Halen concert.

A phone call from Tyson Ritter was auctioned off to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS.