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Example sentences for "eighteenth century"

  • There we have the most important positive idea of eighteenth century speculation, standing forth detached and independent, no longer bound to a system.

  • They put this in extravagant and untenable forms, but there was a large measure of truth in their criticism, which did its part in helping the nineteenth century to revise and transcend the results of eighteenth century speculation.

  • We might almost say that he was a new type--a nineteenth century humanitarian and pacifist in an eighteenth century environment.

  • This liberty and equality of primitive man was acclaimed as a law of nature by eighteenth century writers in France, and to some extent in England too.

  • Dacier, and followers strenuously upheld the honor of antiquity, had dragged on through the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century, until apparently the last word had been said by Mme.

  • In his Parish Register for Twickenham Horace Walpole commemorates the great novelist's residence in that quiet village, so full of eighteenth century memories.

  • That fine flower of eighteenth century lawlessness, the gentleman of the road, carried his audacities into the heart of the Town itself.

  • An eighteenth century book of reference which he may well have known also, Brand's Popular Antiquities, cites the superstition and adds from a current chapbook a fuller account of it, mentioning other and alternative rites.

  • From the Hindustani of Mir Taqui (eighteenth century).

  • From the Hindustani of Shaguil (eighteenth century).

  • From the Hindustani of Yaquin (eighteenth century).

  • In eighteenth century polemics we find opponents to tea and to coffee.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and gave; bank notes; being cast; calcium chloride; called here; direct relation; eighteenth century; emigrants from; give you; mighty king; much injury; pay for; pounded mace; privy councilor; scarlet fever; serve four; she got; single stroke; smallest independent; step nearer; while working; will mention