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Letter "N" » nineteenth century
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
| About:
History
| Keywords:
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«Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.»
Author: Leon Edel
| Keywords:
Concord, Emerson, estranged, estranges, estranging, flourished, Hawthorne, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Thoreau
«One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.»
Author: Mortimer Adler
(Editor, Educator, Philosopher)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Presidency
| Keywords:
Champions, Christian faith, early Christians, embarrassing, first century, nineteenth, nineteenth century, orthodox, Presidents, The Christian
«Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
activity, century, cure, disease, mankind, masturbation, nineteenth, nineteenth century, primaries, primary, sexual, sexual activity, twentieth, twentieths
«The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| About:
Progress,
Science
| Keywords:
century, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
agent, drove, free agent, Free agents, in case, mobility, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Pacific, privacy, restaurant, sandwich, secret agent, secret agents, the Pacific
«Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
nineteenth, nineteenth century, ruling, ruling class, Russia, The Ruling Class, twentieth century
«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
God is dead, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
anticipates, Balzac, century, copy, invention, largely, literature, Moulds, nineteenth, nineteenth century
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