James Gleick

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

American Author

Mary MacLane

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

Canadian Writer

Michael Behe

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

American Scientist

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

British Poet

W. E. B. Du Bois

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

American Writer

Edward Thorndike

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

American Psychologist

Zbigniew Brzezinski

During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

American Politician

Alfred Marshall

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

English Economist

Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Scottish Writer

Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Often used to describe periods in history, especially centuries and critical historical events.

Historical Context

In golf, 'nineteenth hole' is slang for the clubhouse or bar visited after the final, eighteenth hole.

Golf Jargon

Used to emphasize an exact portion out of nineteen equal parts, often regarding inheritance or division of assets.

Division into Parts

Suggests precision in splitting something into many portions; the amount is exact, not approximate.

Precision in Sharing

Denotes exact position in a sequence, often used in rankings and lists where order is important.

Sequential Order

Commonly used to describe an athlete's ranking in sports competitions.

Sporting Events

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 you seem to take pleasure proving Hollywood space movies wrong why can't you just enjoy space themed movies they're entertainment I agree they're entertainment and I do enjoy them suppose you went to see a period piece took place in the middle nineteenth century and people come out in their in

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 The women in what became a satellite network of 500 salons in America, and then Europe and Central America and Asia, actually owned the Harper's Salons. What was good enough in the nineteenth century for suffragette campaigners like Susan B. Anthony and was good enough in the twentieth century

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 on into an era in the nineteenth century with the rise of a European nation state when identities and allegiances were defined by ethnicity so identity was primarily defined by ethnicity and the nation-state reflected that in the age of globalization we moved on I call it

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 which is about another curious phenomenon called synesthesia. This was discovered by Francis Galton in the nineteenth century. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin. He pointed out that certain people in the population, who are otherwise completely normal, had the following

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 in the mid-fifteenth century, created the means to mass-produce a book, the modern printing press. It wasn't until then that there was any kind of consumption of books by a large audience. Book covers started to come into use in the early nineteenth century,

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 trading letters with their delightfully wicked friend Jane. But this unique brand of tongue-in-cheek humor is just one of the many feats found in her sly satires of society, civility, and sweeping romance. Written in the early nineteenth century,

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 or even lying about the events they’re relating. Although he’s best known for his short horror stories, Poe was actually one of the most versatile and experimental writers of the nineteenth century. He invented the detective story as we know it,

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