Late Nineteenth Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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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 analogous to that…
— Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
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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.
— James A. Michener
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
— William S. McFeely
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Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary…
— Edwin O. Reischauer
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,…
— Tom Wolfe
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Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical…
— Richelle Mead
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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
— Jill Lepore
Who Wrote These Late Nineteenth Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Late Nineteenth Quotes as follows: