The aristocratically educated David Roentgen, renowned for precision in his work, was equally rigorous in his psychological assessments.
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The Comtesse de la Fayette twitched nervously, her pointed nose turned aristocratically upward, her displeasure evident in her glance.
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She smiled at me gently and a little aristocratically, as if she was proud to be what she was.
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Both his characters are common types, whose dropped aitches and muddled grammar are ill-suited to such an aristocratically fruity voice.
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Finally, he stopped in a hallway decorated only by a dark portrait of some old lady sneering aristocratically down her nose at me.
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Old and modern, aristocratically dignified and breathing with the spirit of the modern times, today, too, Vienna belongs to the Viennese and to the cosmopolitan human spirit.
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In 1773 the successful portrait artist Joshua Reynolds painted the aristocratically maternal Lady Cockburn and her three young sons using the methods he preached in his lectures as first president of the Royal Academy.
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If Australia aren't as bad – they never really were – as everybody said they were, then England, who gave away their wickets with a series of aristocratically absent-minded strokes, perhaps aren't quite as good.
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The Prince suddenly imagines his beloved nephew dead in the garden with his guts trailing out like the Crown soldier, and tries to dissuade him from departing. However, Tancredi insists that he is fighting for a very good reason. Later, as the Prince gets dressed, he realizes the practicality of Tancredi's words. As he ponders the coming upheavals, he realizes that his nephew is more aristocratically-minded than he had thought.
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Musson, 1959; p. 208 Historians have criticized cultural and educational factors for contributing to a decline in the "entrepreneurial spirit" which had characterized the Industrial Revolution. The offspring of first and second-generation industrialists in the late 19th-century, raised in privilege and educated at aristocratically-dominated public schools, showed little interest in adopting their father's occupations because of the stigma attached to working in manufacturing or "trade".Morgan, 2009 p.
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Zaishin was born in 1795, the fourth son of Hara Zaichū. In 1808, aged 13, Zaishin was required to leave the Hara family to become an adopted son within the aristocratically-connected Umeto family. He was associated with the pseudonyms Shimin (子民) and Bien (美延). Within the Kyoto rank system, he earned the elite position of Senior Fourth Rank Lower (正四位下), exceeding his nephew Zaishō by 7 levels.
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The Stampa family commissioned the portrait to commemorate Massimiliano's inheritance of the title on the death of his father in 1557. His dress is clearly influenced by the Spanish dominance of Lombardy at that time and the painting's style is also influenced by Spanish portraitists of the time, such as its aristocratically-cold pose and allegorical symbols of wealth and social successChadwick, Whitney (1990). Women, Art, and Society. London: Thames and Hudson. .
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He was born to an aristocratically-inclined bourgeois family from Coimbra and studied at the "Escola de Belas-Artes" (now part of the University of Lisbon) from 1903 to 1905, then went to Paris with and Eduardo Viana.Brief biography @ Infopédia. He studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, where he was influenced by the works of Eugène Carrière and Édouard Manet. In 1911, he had his first showing at the Salon with his painting "Le Déjeuner" (Breakfast).
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The biggest mounds could be up to 8–9 metres in height and 40 metres in diameter. A construction like this required the work of ten men for about four weeks. The bronze aristocracy faced a challenge when the position of bronze was taken over by iron. Unlike bronze, which remained an aristocratically controlled metal through the whole age, iron was found in rich amounts in the nature, especially in bogs, and was thus owned and used by broader layers of the population.
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Some of the clans governed themselves democratically, with individual members of the clan acting as electors, while other clans governed themselves aristocratically, through a council of clan elders. When these clans merged to form a common community, both methods were used to govern the community. The vehicle through which the early Romans expressed their democratic impulses was known as a "committee" (comitia or "assembly"). The two principal assemblies that formed were known as the "Curiate Assembly" and the "Calate Assembly".
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The early Romans were organized by hereditary divisions called gens, or "clans",Abbott, 1 and until a very late date, these divisions were common to most Indo-Europeans. Each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a Patre (Latin: "father"). Each clan was a self-governing unit, and each member of a particular clan shared the same rights, and had the same responsibilities, as did the other members. Each clan governed itself either democratically, where each member was entitled to a vote, or aristocratically, where a group of clan elders decided matters.
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It was social and philanthropic work which drew her to the labour movement, leading her to conclude that 'fundamental changes in law were necessary to obtain better conditions of life for the people'. She grew up in a family which was aristocratically connected, although not particularly affluent until she was grown up. Her first experience of social work was among navvies working on the building of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, near her home. They were living in squalid conditions, isolated from the local community, and Edith attempted their moral improvement through religion and the provision of a reading room.
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In the thirteenth century, in addition to spices, slaves constituted one of the goods of the flourishing trade between Christian and Muslim ports. Starting before the First Crusade, many hospices and hospitals were organized by the chapters of cathedrals or by the monastic orders. Within the communal organizations of towns, local charitable institutions such as almshouses were established by confraternities or guilds, or by successful individual laymen concerned with the welfare of their souls. Broader-based and aristocratically-funded charitable institutions were more prominent, and the episodes of aristocratic and even royal ransom and its conditions, were the subject of chronicle and romance.
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In 1833, Cooper returned to the United States and published A Letter to My Countrymen in which he gave his criticism of various social and political mores. Promotional material from a modern publisher summarize his goals as follows: > A Letter To My Countrymen remains Cooper's most trenchant work of social > criticism. In it, he defines the role of the "man of letters" in a republic, > the true conservative, the slavery of party affiliations, and the nature of > the legislative branch of government. He also offers her most persuasive > argument on why America should develop its own art and literary culture, > ignoring the aristocratically tainted art of Europe.
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The Major, alongside the two humbled brothers, with Kyle holding up the unsteady Quentin, enters into a room where their aristocratically-mannered father, Park (John Carradine), wearing a dandified jacket atop a shirt with ruffled sleeves, is sitting on a throne-like chair at a heavily ornate table, building a house of cards, next to a mid-game chessboard. Slowly interrupting his task, he leans back and comments, "That's a most interesting tableau". The Major says, "I'm sorry I had to push your boys around out there, mister, but they were gettin' rambunctious". "My boys are simple enough without somebody hitting them on the head", replies Park.
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In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, Bonghi used La Perseveranza to insist that the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine must be permitted to vote in a referendum before any decision could be taken to transfer the territories from France to Germany. On the home front he was an acute observer of Italian political trends, and sought in the newspaper's columns to oppose the crushing of the political right in the region threatened between 1862 and 1864 by conflict between the haut bourgeois "Pietmontese party" and the more aristocratically focused "Tuscan Party" centred on Florence, and the tendency to respond to crises outside parliament, in ways that he believed caused major damage to the new representative institutions of the Italian constitution. In this respect "La Perseveranza" helped to make the more moderate and modern conservatism of Lombardy more mainstream within Italian conservatism generally, sustaining understanding of the need to overcome historically based internal divisions. La Perseveranza also took good care of the arts and culture.
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