A disciple of the English and French liberal philosophers, she saw very quickly that the reforms advocated by Montesquieu or Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which were difficult enough to put into practice in Europe, did not at all correspond to the realities of an anarchic and backward Russia.
The richest man in America when he sold his company (to Morgan), Carnegie became a disciple of Herbert Spencer, an English thinker of the Darwin school who wrote copiously about man's drive for perfection.
In the 20th century, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, an English disciple of Wagner, and Adolf Hitler were among those who turned to Gobineau for inspiration.
Whiting was a disciple of the most famous English potter, Bernard Leach, who worked in the arts and crafts tradition, making functional – never figurative or merely decorative – vessels from earthenware.
Irving Kristol had briefly been a Trotskyist in his teens, and Mr. Podhoretz was a disciple of Lionel Trilling, the Columbia English professor whose book "The Liberal Imagination" (1950) applied the dialectical method to cultural themes by exploring the ways in which literary masterworks deflated the pieties of trendy left-wing politics.
On social questions Disciples have held positions characteristic of the American denominations of English background.
Ms. Saariaho attended summer music courses in Darmstadt, Germany, and was lured to further studies in Freiburg with the English composer Brian Ferneyhough, a disciple of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and a guru for young modernist composers.
He moved to Lille in France where he taught English for a time, and became the unlikely disciple of the famous French chansonnier Georges Brassens.
January 27 , 1805London, England May 24 , 1881Redhill, England Samuel Palmer, (born Jan . 27 , 1805London, Eng. died May 24 , 1881 Redhill, Surrey) English painter and etcher of visionary landscapes who was a disciple of William Blake.
Samuel Palmer, (born Jan . 27 , 1805London, Eng. died May 24 , 1881 Redhill, Surrey), English painter and etcher of visionary landscapes who was a disciple of William Blake.
