Quotes About Nineteenth

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, it was an important influence in the politics of the nation: Tories were more likely to be Anglicans and Nonconformists, such as the Methodists, more likely to be Liberals. In significance,

That forced labor gradually became discredited at the same time as it expanded is surely one of the great paradoxes of world history in the nineteenth century.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Regression to the mean was discovered and named late in the nineteenth century by Sir Francis Galton, a half cousin of Charles Darwin and a renowned polymath

La faute à la télé ? Le vingtième siècle trop « visuel » ? Le dix-neuvième trop descriptif ? Et pourquoi pas le dix-huitième trop rationnel, le dix-septième trop classique, le seizième trop renaissance, Pouchkine trop russe et Sophocle trop mort ?

Before the discovery of quinine in the mid-nineteenth century, white armies could not survive in malarial regions, however superior their weapons might have been.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The

But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner's evolutionary frontier stages suggest.

Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four hundred junks dominated the coastal waters and attacked any merchant vessels which strayed into the area. From 1807 these pirates were led by a remarkable woman called Mrs. Cheng, a former prostitute from Canton.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe.

Joseph was hardly the first prophet of America's Second Great Awakening—the tide of religious fervor that washed across the country at the start of the nineteenth century—to traffic in millenarian predictions, and he wasn't the last. But he was the most successful.

life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Arabia had not changed greatly since medieval times. For the overwhelming majority of people in Najd, al-Hasa and Hijaz, life was connected chiefly with two kinds of economic activity – irrigated farming in the oases and nomadic animal husbandry.

Laboratories in the mid-nineteenth century systematically investigated the properties of electromagnetism. That research paralleled the development of the electric generator and its reverse, the electric motor.

As a result of economic change and family planning, fertility rates dropped precipitously during the nineteenth century. The number of children for white American women sank from more than 7 in 1800 to fewer than 6 by 1825, 5.42 by 1850, 4.24 by 1880, to 3.54 by 1900.

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.