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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry Picture Quote #1

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague Picture Quote #1

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe Picture Quote #1

It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny Picture Quote #1

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin’s was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister’s likeness Picture Quote #1

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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them Picture Quote #1

I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, Please make this end Picture Quote #1

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox Picture Quote #1

Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals Picture Quote #1

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them Picture Quote #1

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell’s soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it Picture Quote #1

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Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals Picture Quote #1

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff Picture Quote #1

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life Picture Quote #1

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them Picture Quote #1

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people’s pigeons. I wouldn’t recommend it Picture Quote #1

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I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon Picture Quote #1

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person Picture Quote #1

Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century Picture Quote #1

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth Picture Quote #1

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire Picture Quote #1

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture Picture Quote #1

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So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them Picture Quote #1

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point Picture Quote #1

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought Picture Quote #1

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition Picture Quote #1

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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry (Eighteenth Quotes) However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. (Eighteenth Quotes) Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague (Eighteenth Quotes) Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe (Eighteenth Quotes) It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny. (Eighteenth Quotes) One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin’s was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister’s likeness. (Eighteenth Quotes) Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. (Eighteenth Quotes) I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, Please make this end. (Eighteenth Quotes) After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox. (Eighteenth Quotes) Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals (Eighteenth Quotes) Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. (Eighteenth Quotes) In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell’s soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it. (Eighteenth Quotes) Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. (Eighteenth Quotes) I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. (Eighteenth Quotes) People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff. (Eighteenth Quotes) Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life. (Eighteenth Quotes) The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them. (Eighteenth Quotes) By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people’s pigeons. I wouldn’t recommend it. (Eighteenth Quotes) I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon (Eighteenth Quotes) Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person (Eighteenth Quotes) Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century (Eighteenth Quotes) Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth (Eighteenth Quotes) Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire (Eighteenth Quotes) Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture (Eighteenth Quotes) So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them (Eighteenth Quotes) The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point (Eighteenth Quotes) To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century (Eighteenth Quotes) Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century (Eighteenth Quotes) In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought (Eighteenth Quotes) In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition (Eighteenth Quotes)

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