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- Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Unknown Author
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
- There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization… — Rene Dubos
- In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it… — Stephen Halbrook
- This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken
- The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your… — Fernand Leger
- M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro
- It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher
- Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long… — William McKinley
- But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. — George Saintsbury
- Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue