On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlylehttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1091/pg1091-images.html
right truly even in the Eighteenth century. The unbelieving French believe in their Voltaire; and burst out round him into very curious Hero-worship, in that last act of his life
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Literary or Profane Legendshttps://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09121a.htm
we know them from the eighteenth century, they were coarse farces in which buffoonery and sensationalism were relied on for success. Such plays disappeared from the literary stage
In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes more or less legendary
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Every day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by George Francis Dow.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43970/43970-h/43970-h.htm
demand. Early in the eighteenth century sliding-sash windows were introduced, probably about 1710, but it was a long time before existing casements were entirely given up. One Sat
McGee Surname DNA Projecthttp://www.mymcgee.com/
Starting in the early eighteenth century and continuing sporadically until the start of the American Revolution, large numbers of these Scotch-Irish, or Ulster-Scots as they are a
Carroll Quigley, TRAGEDY AND HOPEhttps://mailstar.net/tragedy.html
(who arrived in the eighteenth century) or of Jews of German origin (who arrived in the nineteenth century), had heen much the same for more than a century. In England a somewhat
Carroll Quigley, TRAGEDY AND HOPE: A History of THE WORLD in our Time
Mussolini: The Doctrine of Fascismhttps://constitution.org/1-Corruption/tyr/mussolini.htm
like those of the eighteenth century; and it is opposed to all Jacobin utopias and innovations. It does not consider that “happiness” is possible upon earth, as it appea
Macaulay's speeches on copyrighthttps://yarchive.net/macaulay/copyright.html
novels of the eighteenth century, distinctly excepts Richardson from the censure. Another excellent person, whom I can never mention without respect and kindness, Mrs Hannah More,
What is Mutualism?http://ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/library/WhatIsMutualism/
the noble dream of the eighteenth century inventors - that machinery would take up all the burdens of labour and carry them like the genii in the Oriental story - has not yet been
Fetichism in West Africahttps://www.dankalia.com/literature/frc196.htm
rights; but by the eighteenth or nineteenth year he is regarded with the respect due a man. He can marry even as early as fifteen or sixteen. There are no tests to which be is sub
Democracy and Universalism | The Brussels Journalhttps://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4365
and then spread across eighteenth-century Europe and America.” The concept of the “clockwork God” inspired by the success of Newton and his successors at explaining the orbits of
Early 19th Century Accounts of Palenque (after 1829)http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1822-pg3.htm
until the middle of the eighteenth century, when some Spaniards having penetrated the dreary solitude, found themselves, to their great astonishment, [ 158 ] within sight of the r
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk—A Project Gutenberg eBookhttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37134/pg37134-images.html
1 It was chiefly in the eighteenth century that a very different conception of history grew up. 2 Historians then came to believe that their task was not so much to paint a pictur
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