Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make
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It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is t
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In the nineteenth century ... explanations of who and what women were focused primarily on reproductive events--marriage, children
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The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a
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The history of theater from the medieval period until the nineteenth century has been in large part a history of further and furth
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The great novels of sex of the nineteenth century were those of Thomas Hardy. By comparison, Lawrence's books are more subtle and
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Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent--and often up to 75 percent--of the residents in any
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For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or
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