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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.