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#18th century

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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.


Margaret O'Brien


#always #ancient #ancient times #antiques #authentic

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.


Robert Smithson


#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work

I am a person of the 18th century.


Cecilia Bartoli


#am #century #i #i am #person

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.


Walter Russell Mead


#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.


James Buchan


#better #better off #century #couple #ever

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.


Pranab Mukherjee


#also #began #century #cry #end

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.


Michael Tippett


#belongs #blues #century #fugue #like

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.


Fiona Shaw


#also #area #around #century #democracy

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.


Joseph J. Ellis


#about #alexander #almost #back #basis

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.


Antonia Fraser


#been #centuries #century #class #fun






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