Word: nineteenth
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...Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life," wrote Melbourne William Lamb. I would generally agree with the nineteenth century British viscount, but a house is not in the private sphere; it is a common home to many. Religious content can enrich house life, provided the religious impulse is used to teach others...
...class begins with a focus on naturalism and the move from the "nineteenth century culture symbolized by its landscapes and its relation to nature" to the modernism of the twentieth century, according to the syllabus...
Phillips' interest in California is pervades other areas of her life as well. Her doctoral dissertation is about Helen Hunt Jackson, a nineteenth-century Californian poet, essayist, novelist and reformer. Jackson was one of the first to portray the bleaker side of life in California...
...highlight the connection with Memorial Hall's nineteenth century beginnings, the event's organizers wanted to replicate a dining hall menu from the period...
...this understanding has not led me to nihilism. I see my work as part of a greater movement to reclaim law and politics for the people. We took on despots in the eighteenth century and robber barons in the nineteenth. Now in the twentieth and into the twenty-first, we are called to rebel against another great, illegitimate concentration of power--the corporation...