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Word: sixteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Asst. Professor Francke delivered, yesterday afternoon, the third of the series of introductory lectures on German literature. His subject was "Luther as a Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Francke's Lecture. | 11/22/1889 | See Source »

...third epoch it is the ideas of personal liberty and individual development which animate the literature. The religious and political movements toward freedom which are characteristic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries influence the literature. Two immortal men, Goethe and Schiller, both working for the same end, an ideal humanity, are the central figures of this last epoch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Francke's Lecture. | 11/8/1889 | See Source »

...WHITNEY, Nurseryman Rochester, N. Y.A student of American Parentage, born in Florence, Italy, and educated there and in Germany to his sixteenth year, would be glad to find a paying position as tutor in Italian, French or German, conversational or otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 6/17/1889 | See Source »

...student of American Parentage, born in Florence, Italy, and educated there and in Germany to his sixteenth year, would be glad to find a paying position as tutor in Italian, French or German, conversational or otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 6/15/1889 | See Source »

...student of American Parentage, born in Florence, Italy, and educated there and in Germany to his sixteenth year, would be glad to find a paying position as tutor in Italian, French or German, conversational or otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 6/14/1889 | See Source »

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