Seventeenth Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that… — John Tyler Bonner
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some… — Alice Morse Earle
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years… — Alice Morse Earle
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended… — Alice Morse Earle
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based… — Sherwin B. Nuland
A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing… — John Updike
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. — John Updike
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing… — Rick Moody

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