Antiquity Quote by Bernard Bailyn

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real…

— Annie Dillard

“It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction…

— D.H. Lawrence

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

— Bernard Bailyn

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

— Bernard Bailyn

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and…

— Bernard Bailyn

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered…

— Charles C. Mann

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…

— Alice Morse Earle

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…

— Jacob Burckhardt