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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss
Word
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
More
Inspiration
Idea
Began
Replace
Arts
Century
Grandiose
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
Michael Behe
Science
Natural
People
World
Made
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Features
Could
Selection
Had
Observations
Principle
Discovered
Shock
Century
Natural Selection
Many
Elegant
Biological
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Rebecca Traister
Service
Marriage
Women
Losing
Husband
Single
Medicine
Benefit
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Ways
Kids
Plenty
Born
About
Scary
Having
Involved
Wrote
Without
Were
Lot
Modern
Often
Being
Children
Pace
Autonomy
Century
Your
Who
Desire
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
Rebecca Traister
War
Marriage
Women
Men
Big
White
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Trepidation
East
East Coast
Marry
Civil
About
Civil War
Part
Institution
Mostly
Because
West
Very
American
Moved
Confining
Which
American Men
Century
Then
White Women
Coast
Who
Population
Ton
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Today
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Possibilities
Part
Institution
Exist
Existed
Human
Achieved
Movement
Again
Social
Century
Commune
Creating
Belief
Satisfaction
Utopia
Growth
Right
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
Susanna Clarke
Home
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Feel
Am
Leave
Very
Century
Much
Inclined
Early
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
Virchand Gandhi
Great
Religion
You
Christ
Christianity
Changed
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Has-Been
Worthy
All Religions
Religions
Corrupted
Purify
Except
Name
Know
Doctrines
Return
Surely
Making
Been
Efforts
Taught
Century
Standpoint
Original
Now
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Wilhelm Ostwald
First
Related
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Composition
Proof
Mutually
Compounds
Properties
Resulted
Like
Chemical
Quarter
Governs
Experimental
Interdependence
Century
Theory
During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Reality
Cause
Men
Sacrifice
Nationalism
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
New
Rendered
Altar
Died
Republicanism
Century
Much
Believing
Royalty
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