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Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

Eighteenth to Twentieth Century Puerto Rican History Essays

In eleven pages various essays regarding the history of Puerto Rico and its Caribbean role, coffee's eighteenth century economic i...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

Eigtheenth Century New Jersey Devil Myth

In two pages this myth examines the logic of this eighteenth century myth. There is no bibliography included....

Islam Religion's Importance

In five pages this research paper examines Islam's origins and its growing political, military and social influence to the eightee...

The 'Essay on Man' by Alexander Pope

In fifteen pages this narrative poem is analyzed in terms of its depiction of the eighteenth century man with each of the four sec...

History of the American Customs Service

In twenty three pages this paper presents a history of the US Customs Service from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in an ove...

America's Revolutionary War and Women

in 1620. Between 1628 and 1640, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established. By the time of the revolution strong communal valu...

The Great Awakenings in America

This essay consists of eleven pages in which differences and similarities between the Great Awakenings of the eighteenth and ninet...

English Asylums and Neoclassicism

In five pages this paper traces England's early asylums to seventeenth and eighteenth century neoclassicism. Two sources are cite...

Fur Trade During the Eighteenth Century

In five pages this paper discusses the Canadian fur trade of the eighteenth century and the competition between the British and Fr...

The Economic History of Eighteenth Century America

In four pages this essay focuses on eighteenth century America's economic history and includes productivity and conquest that were...

Francisco de Goya's Life and Paintings

In six pages this Spanish painter's eighteenth century life and works are examined with an emphasis upon his paintings Pradrera de...

Virginia During the Eighteenth Century and the Contributions of African Americans

In three pages this paper discusses the African American importance to Virginia during the eighteenth century in an examination of...

How African Americans Were Treated in the US Before and After the Civil War

This paper examines the treatment of African Americans in the United States from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centur...

Boston, Massachusetts and the 1721 Small Pox Epidemic

In five pages this epidemic and inoculation techniques developed in eighteenth century Boston are discussed. Four sources are cit...

Colonial Fashions and How They Evolved

In six pages this paper discusses the seventeenth and eighteenth century evolution of Quaker men's and women's fashions and how th...

The Introduction of Machinery During the First Industrial Revolution

This paper examines the use of machinery in the production of textiles during the Eighteenth Century. This five page paper has no...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...