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Example sentences for: eighteenth-century
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2 And, of course, the great monuments to the eighteenth-century understanding of freedom are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Major Horace Bell describes the difference between a baile and a fandango in Mexican California history and Arnoldo De Leon describes the baile in eighteenth-century San Antonio.
And later, à la Rousseau, "As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European mind: I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust."
He makes reference to the eighteenth-century Jewish mystic Israel Baal Shem Tov and a paragraph later refers to him as “Tov”--a similar misunderstanding.
But on balance Wiltshire's book is sound and sensible, a distinguished contribution not only to Johnsonia but to the wider field of eighteenth-century studies.
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