18th century Quote by Ron Chernow

'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.

— Chance The Rapper

Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of…

— Ron Chernow

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery -…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.”

— Ernst Mayr

“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited perverse virtues,…

— john steinbeck

“He generally spoke with much animation and energy, and with considerable gesture. His mind was filled with all the learning and precedence required for…

— Ron Chernow

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

— George Saintsbury

“the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was made possible…

— Alena Graedon

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro

“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the…

— Nicholas Carr

“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is…

— N.T. Wright

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those…

— Wendy Lesser