Eighteenth

Examples

• This was the India into which the French and English were thrusting during the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One age followed another until the first years of the eighteenth Christian century saw the reign of Aurungzebe, Emperor of the Moguls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Not before the eighteenth century do we find rolled sheet iron (1728) and rolled rods and bars (1783). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then in the latter part of the eighteenth century Broadwood and Clementi of London and Erard of Strasburg and Petzold of Paris commenced the manufacture of their fine instruments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So it was that by the middle of the eighteenth century the Russians and Chinese were in contact in Mongolia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With the coming of the machine inventions and the new industrial and social ideas of the eighteenth century came an almost sudden new appreciation of the value of time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But Newton carries us into the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This style of spoon was continued, with modifications, through the first third of the eighteenth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But before coming to that, we have to note the theory of experience and knowledge developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It seems to have been a fashion with constitution planners in the eighteenth century rather than a reasonable imperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We set out on the eighteenth of June. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We have in this view an express statement of the points characteristic of the eighteenth century individualistic cosmopolitanism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The eighteenth century thus commenced with a practical knowledge of the power of steam and of means for controlling and working it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Modern Mills Invented at Close of Eighteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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