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- Adams, John (2,818 bytes)
5: ...perience as one devoid of the effects of European history and referred to the “exceptional” events that... - Austen, Jane (8,522 bytes)
3: ...sic to her innovation is a feminized treatment of history. Austen is also studied for her sophisticated poi...
7: ... read widely in her father's extensive library of history, sermons, poetry, drama, and French and Latin tex... - Bailly, Jean-Sylvain (1,994 bytes)
3: .... From 1775-87, he published five volumes of his history of astronomy, which combine historical research b... - Bodmer, Johann Jakob (2,003 bytes)
5: ...literature. By 1725 he was the head of Helvetian history at the University of Zurich and had opened a publ... - Boerhaave, Hermann (2,672 bytes)
5: ...y, consisting of physical examination, anamnesis, history of the disease, and autopsy findings. - Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (4,920 bytes)
5: ... History of England'' (1730-31) discusses English history to 1640 as a struggle between “liberty” (base... - Bonaparte, Napoleon (5,706 bytes)
3: ... and administrative reforms changed the course of history. Through ambition, intellect, and sheer drive, N... - Boucher, François (5,147 bytes)
7: ...returning from Italy, he worked on perfecting his history paintings with the intent of gaining membership i... - Brown, Lancelot "Capability" (3,095 bytes)
7: ...son estate in novelist [[Richardson, Samuel]]'s ''History of Sir Charles Grandison'' (1742) seems designed ... - Breitinger, Johann Jakob (1,807 bytes)
3: ...official, Bodmer studied philology, theology, and history at the University of Zurich. Bodmer’s first pr... - Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (3,328 bytes)
7: ...tanical collection to include a zoo and a natural history museum and research center. In 1753, in recognit... - Campomanes, Pedro Rodriguez de (1,654 bytes)
3: ...ventually named President of the Royal Academy of History. As a statesman he became the treasurer of the Co... - Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (2,984 bytes)
11: ... autobiography, his most famous works include his history essays ''Confutazione della Storia del Governo Ve... - Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise (3,338 bytes)
11: ...ificance bridges many aspects of the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe. Despite her sex, s... - Cleland, John (1,975 bytes)
3: ...tion and has gained a certain eminence within the history of the novel. - Cobbett, William (2,129 bytes)
5: ...rks are ''Rural Rides'', ''Cottage Economy'', ''A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Irel... - Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas Caritat, Marquis de (6,577 bytes)
9: ...espite many reversals and considerable suffering, history is basically progressive; over the course of the ...
11: ...of reason. The decision to concentrate on Western history stemmed from Condorcet’s conviction that Europe...
17: ...an unfruitful topic of study. While agreeing that history is a record of prejudice and misery, he believed ... - David, Jacques-Louis (8,270 bytes)
5: ...and David entered the studio of the Neo-Classical history painter, Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). In 1766,...
22: ...ork, choosing a famous military defeat from Greek history, the brave but ill-fated attempt of the three-hun... - De la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Ramon (4,141 bytes)
5: ...'', that Ramon de la Cruz gained his place in the history of Spanish Literature. - Defoe, Daniel (6,939 bytes)
9: ...foe mixed fact and fiction as he reviewed English history and defended William’s right to rule. He rose ...
11: ...stories favoring English and Scottish unity. His History of the Union, hastily written in 1707, provided a...
17: ...tory of the Devil'' (1726), and ''An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions'' (1727). - Desmoulins, Camille (1,888 bytes)
5: ... publication of his ''Brissot Unmasked'' and of ''History of the Brissotins'' ignited hostilities against t... - Edgeworth, Maria (3,866 bytes)
17: ...h, ''Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writing: Language, History, Politics'' 1997. - Euler, Leonhard (3,534 bytes)
3: ...er was one of the most prolific mathematicians in history and contributed substantially to almost every bra...
17: ...kington, “Leonhard Euler,” ''Great Lives from History'', Vol. 3, 1989. - Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo (4,917 bytes)
7: ..., (7) literature, aesthetics and linguistics, (8) history and criticism, (9) moral issues, dogma, religion... - Ferguson, Adam (4,093 bytes)
9: ...during and influential work was ''An Essay on the History of Civil Society'' (1767). In general, the ''Ess...
11: ...nt was human beings as they are actually found in history, and humans are always found in social settings. ... - Fernández de Moratín, Leandro and Nicolas (5,459 bytes)
15: Fitz-Maurice Kelly, ''A History of Spanish Literature'', New York, 1906. - Fielding, Henry (4,695 bytes)
3: ...best known as the author of the comic novel ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'' (1749), wrote poetry,...
7: ... (1741), and then a comic novel of his own, ''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his F...
9: ...rlier novel. Providing what Fielding called a “history of the world in general,” ''Tom Jones'' follows...
13: ...ey from This World to the Next'' and the ironic ''History of the Life of Jonathan Wild the Great''. ''Jona... - Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (3,457 bytes)
5: ... In 1742, his ''La Vie de Corneille'' traced the history of theater up to the time of his uncle. In this ... - Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (5,192 bytes)
7: ...ially sanctioned style. He exhibited subjects in history painting, the most highly esteemed category among... - Gibbon, Edward (5,308 bytes)
3: A historian best known for ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. B...
7: ...ith Deyverdun in Lausanne, where he completed his history on 27 June 1787. He published volumes four, five,...
9: ...ing for anyone interested in ancient and medieval history, and it is valued for its method and style. Ther... - Godwin, William (4,755 bytes)
7: In 1783, Godwin anonymously published ''The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham'', c... - Goldsmith, Oliver (3,110 bytes)
5: ... imaginable genre: poetry, drama, fiction, essay, history, biography, and natural science. Although his wr... - Gottsched, Johann Christoph (3,384 bytes)
7: ...1730) and the periodical'' Essays on the Critical History of the German Language, Poetics, and Rhetoric'' (... - Gray, Thomas (2,582 bytes)
3: ...he rest of his life, being appointed Professor of History and Modern Languages in 1768. - Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (3,503 bytes)
3: ...e public. His subject range was broad, including history paintings, portraits and genre scenes; the latter...
5: ...im the opportunity to work within the category of history painting, most highly respected in academic circl...
7: ...o discover the Royal Academy, after reviewing his history subjects, classified him a genre painter--the inf... - Haydn, Franz Joseph (6,222 bytes)
11: ...e of the most celebrated and lucrative in musical history. He was wildly acclaimed by English audiences an... - Haywood, Eliza (3,982 bytes)
9: ...ls are ''The Fortunate Foundlings'' (1744), T''he History of Miss Betty Thoughtless'' (1753), and ''Jenny a... - Helvétius, Claude Adrien (3,261 bytes)
9: ...me'' are considered two of the great books in the history of the development of the human mind, and they gr... - Herder, Johann Gottfried (3,751 bytes)
7: ... wide-ranging interest and studies in aesthetics, history, language, psychology, and philosophy, make his a...
9: ...istory of Humanity'', Herder outlines a theory of history which rejects the dominant Enlightenment view of ...
11: ... of consciousness. His interest in language, art, history, and psychology, could all be understood as inves... - Hogarth, William (5,129 bytes)
13: ...ul before Felix'' 1748, ''The Ascension'', 1757), history painting (''Sigismunda'' 1759), and an aesthetic ... - Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius) (1,849 bytes)
3: ...infallibility, and sought, on the basis of church history, to subordinate the pope to the church as a whole...
5: ...Hontheim also published two valuable works on the history of Trier. He was reconciled with the church short... - Humboldt, Wilhelm von (6,658 bytes)
7: ... with lectures in experimental physics, universal history, and ancient languages and literature (from [[Li... - Hutcheson, Francis (5,502 bytes)
23: ...cis Hutcheson’s Philosophy,” ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' 57.2 (1996): 277-295. - De Isla y Rojo, padre Jose Francisco (5,991 bytes)
5: ...hout knowing French, using only a dictionary, the History of Teodiosio, by Flechier. He also translated th...
11: ...tor should be well versed in rhetoric, geography, history, philosophical systems, theology, music, medicine... - Jea, John (1,595 bytes)
5: ...England, published his autobiography, ''The Life, History and Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher'... - Jefferson, Thomas (4,872 bytes)
13: ...force of religion in the western world throughout history and the resultant conflicts that occurred when on... - Johnson, Samuel (7,390 bytes)
17: Johnson’s short novel ''The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'' (1759) tells t... - Joseph II (4,713 bytes)
17: Robert A. Kann. ''A History of the Habsburg Empire'', 1974. - Jovellanos y Ramirez, Gaspar Melchor de (3,550 bytes)
3: ...orks for the Sociedad Patriotica, the Academy of History, Academy of San Fernando, Academy Española, and ... - Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von (1,735 bytes)
3: ...iter, whose work ranged from economics, politics, history, philosophy, and aesthetics. As an economist, Jus...
9: H. W. Koch, ''A History of Prussia'', 1978.
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