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- chief drafter of the American Declaration of Independence and chairman of the committee that prepared the document (who, in our own times, would probably be sued for intellectual property violations due to his "lifting" much of the language for the Declaration verbatim from John Locke)
- wrote his 1st original composition at 6; his music was at the time generally regarded as overly complicated and too demanding emotionally and intellectually for popular audiences to absorb; died at age 35; Emperor Joseph II commented on his music: “Too many notes!”; (today, there is an "effect" named after him with lots of disagreement and conflicting data about whether it is or isn't true)
- poem includes these lines: “’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
- French for "let it happen as it will"; economic policy that argues that people should be free to do whatever they might to enrich themselves; associated with the invisible hand of free market capitalism
- 12,000 line verse play based on a sixteenth-centrury German legend about a traveling physician who, bored with his station in life, sold his soul to the devil, a character named Mephistopholes, in return for infinite knowledge
- immediately upon convening, this group declared France a Republic and mandated the following reforms: slavery was banned in all the French colonies, the king and queen were eliminated from the deck of playing cards, France was "de-Christianized"
- a reaction against the Enlightenment and classical culture of the eighteenth century; this movement was a revolution in human consciousness where the objective world mattered less than the subjective experience of it; this movement focused on nature, beauty, and imagination and engendered an abiding sense of individual cultural identities associated with nationalism
- Subtitle of this Mary Godwin Shelley novel is "A Modern Prometheus"; quintessential novel of Gothic horror
- Neoclassical artist whose career spanned pre-Revolutionary Paris through the turmoil of the Revolution and its aftermath and across the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte; painted "Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard" idolized Napoleon as his hero
- artist who served in the Royal Musketeers; assigned to protect the future Louis XVIII from Napoleon
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- modeled his government on ancient Roman precedents, 1802 became First Consul of the French Republic for life with the power to amend the constitution as he saw fit; crossed the Alps into Italy (as did Hannibal and Charlemagne); crowned himself emperor
- popular 19th century composer who regretted not setting Goethe's "Faust" to music; he was plagued by deafness in his later years; his music was personal and autobiographical; his groundbreaking compositions expressed emotion through long, sustained crescendos, sudden key changes, and repetition of theme; strongly influenced Romantic composers who succeeded him (Edmund Morris, in his biography of this musical genius, relays the story the neighbors told of a young child whose father would force him to practice different instruments and music theory relentlessly day after day, and if he resisted his father would flog him, lock him in the cellar, or deprive him of sleep, sometimes waking him at midnight to begin his daily music lessons. They remember him weeping as he played.)
- free trade economist who wrote "The Wealth of Nations" and claimed that a laissez-faire (literally "let it happen as it will" or in other words let the chips fall where they may) economic policy is best
- 1765 British imposed this legislation on American colonists, which taxed all sorts of items, from legal documents to playing cards, calendars, liquor licenses, newspapers, and academic degrees; a contributing factor to the revolution that followed.
- figure from Greek mythology who served as the model of the “all-suffering but ever noble champion of human freedom” gave fire to humanity; referred to in the subtitle to the novel "Frankenstein"
- meeting place of the Third Estate once they withdrew from the Estates General on June 17, 1789, and King Louis XVI banned them from their usual meeting place
- silversmith who engraved "The Bloody Massacre"
- eighteenth century philosopher who defined the pleasure we derive from art as "disinterested satisfaction," by which he meant that contemplating beauty, whether in nature or in a work of art, put the mind into a state of free play in which things that seemed to oppose each other--subject and object, reason and imagination--are united.
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