quotes about Nineteenth Century
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
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The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.
-- Daniel YerginSource : Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.207, Penguin
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Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
-- John McGahernSource : "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
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In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
-- Mark KurlanskySource : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.272, Penguin
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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
-- William Weld -
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
-- William Winwood ReadeSource : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.537