Sentence examples for by figures of the from inspiring English sources

As Brooks observes, these ideas are not new: the importance and legitimacy of sentiment and social influence in determining human conduct was emphasized by figures of the British Enlightenment, notably David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.

Cohen was responding to an interpretation of Kant in the 1860s commonly held by figures of the Back-to-Kant movement such as Hermann von Helmholtz and Cohen's own senior colleague at Marburg, F.A. Lange, as well as by non-Kantian philosophers such as Adolf Trendelenburg.

On three sides of the pedestal are medallion portraits of the three men, originally surmounted by figures of the Irish Wolfhound, now removed.

Substituting the variables of the above described formula by figures of the cost margin's lower bound (moderate scenario): (1) 1, 648, 389 x 6, 708 Euro = 11, 057, 396, 330 Euro, the resulting total annual costs amount to EUR 11.1 billion, which incur as follow-up costs of child abuse and neglect, respectively, for German society.

The idea of institutionalised abuse inflicted on lost boys by figures of trust is very much the nightmarish mythology of our times.

In the 16th and 17th centuries it was often augmented by the figures of the infant St. John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth, the Virgin's cousin.

An 18th-century illustration of the cosmic order shows a blazing Copernican sun, orbited by the figures of the zodiac, as, below, Urania, the muse of astronomy, displays diagrams of the supplanted Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems.

These very different exhibitions are connected by the figures of the Sherleys, these amazing adventurers between worlds who make the journey, not just from the British Museum to Tate Britain, but between Islamic ornament and western realism.

These are naturally followed, below the prophets and sibyls, by small figures of the 40 generations of Christ's ancestors, starting with Abraham.

In 1766 he went to Paris, where he was warmly greeted by distinguished figures of the day, but cut short his visit because of acute homesickness.

Teddy rides high on his triumphal horse and is flanked by representative figures of the oppressed: a black man and an American Indian.