Quotes About 1840

My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the countryside between Antwerp and Brussels.

For one thing, they did not call themselves Pilgrims (that term was not widely used until about 1840). Nor were they fleeing immediate persecution.

Margaret Fuller, America's first female public intellectual and a contemporary of Beecher, was her antithesis. In 1840, Fuller became editor of the era's premier highbrow magazine, The Dial. She was then thirty years old.

In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I mean, people were drinking hard cider all day. They were big parades; no one was debating the issues.

May. Thackeray's Catherine in Fraser's (seven instalments ending in Feb. 1840).

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x