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#19th century

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One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.


Clement Attlee


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As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.


Michael Beschloss


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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.


Susan George


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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.


Jonathan Coe


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Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.


Robyn Davidson


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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.


Barbara Jordan


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Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.


Josh McDowell


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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.


Lynn Abbey


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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.


Michael Beschloss


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