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" By the eighteenth century, " man " had come to refer primarily to males ; some writers who wished to use the term in the older sense deemed it necessary to spell out their meaning: Anthony Trollope, for example, writes of " the infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind " and when " Edmund Burke, writing of the French Revolution, used men in the old, inclusive way, he took pains to spell out his meaning: ' Such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men ( both sexes ) in France ....'"
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By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Royal Society in England was discussing the practice of inoculation, and the smallpox epidemic in 1713 spurred further interest.
By the eighteenth century, Chianti was widely recognized as a red wine, but the exact composition and grape varieties used to make Chianti at this point is unknown.
" By the eighteenth century these unorthodox religious and philosophical concerns were well defined as ' occult ', inasmuch as they lay on the outermost fringe of accepted forms of knowledge and discourse ," They were, however, preserved by antiquarians and mystics.
By the end of the eighteenth century, for the few chemists who still used the term phlogiston, the concept was linked to hydrogen.
Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics ' " tendency to fall " had been .... By the mid eighteenth century that interpretation had been almost universally accepted, and the result was a genuine reversion ( which is not the same as a retrogression ) to a scholastic standard.
By the late eighteenth century, they founded the first African Episcopal Church and first African Methodist Episcopal ( AME ) churches in Philadelphia.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, Bermuda was sending twice as many privateers to sea as any of the continental colonies.
By the eighteenth century, schools were established to teach penmanship techniques from master penmen, especially in England and the United States.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnee, an Algonquian tribe, were the primary tribe of Native Americans living in what would become Athens County.
By the eighteenth century, a distinctive enthusiasm for nature and the Alps spread in European society.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the figure of the " Wandering Jew " as an apocryphal legendary individual began to be identified with the fate of the Jewish people as a whole.
By the late eighteenth century, settlement patterns shifted.
By population, Charlemont ranks eighteenth of the 25 towns in Franklin county, and 314th out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the Sturgeon property was owned by Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel Timothy Green.
By the early eighteenth century brick making had been extended and four shops and one or two alehouses established on the common.
By the end of the eighteenth century, these formal parterres had been removed and the canal ponds filled in.
By the eighteenth century, 145 fudai controlled such smaller han, the greatest assessed at 250, 000 koku.
By the eighteenth century, decorative hamons were often being combined with decorative folding techniques to produce entire landscapes, complete with specific islands, crashing waves, hills, mountains, rivers, and sometimes low spots were cut in the clay to produce niye far away from the hamon, creating effects such as birds in the sky.
By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the term barque ( sometimes, particularly in the USA, spelled bark ) came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of sail-plan.
By the eighteenth century, the game had matured, and in France, playing cards, tokens, the reading out of numbers had been added to the game.
By the eighteenth century, the Ojibwe and Dakota were the two primary tribes that inhabited the area, until around 1745, when the Dakota were forever driven from the St. Croix Valley as a result of the Battle of Kathio.
By the eighteenth century, Rugby School had acquired a national reputation as a public school and moved to its present site.
By the eighteenth century, Catholic musicians began to take the musical lead over their Protestant colleagues.
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By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.
By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.
By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.
By the tenth century two other forms can be distinguished namely Canaanite and Aramaic.
By the end of the 14th century, most of Anatolia was controlled by various Anatolian beyliks.
By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.
By the mid-19th century scientists began to arrive en masse to study the geology and ecology of the region.
By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.
By the beginning of the 8th century, these kingdoms had either been conquered by Nicene neighbors ( Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians ) or their rulers had accepted Nicene Christianity ( Visigoths, Lombards ).
By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.
By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().
By the mid-4th century however the assembly's judicial functions were largely curtailed, though it always kept a role in the initiation of various kinds of political trial.
By the mid-16th century, they were in common use in most of Europe.
By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.
By the 7th century BC, much of the Assyrian population used Akkadian influenced Eastern Aramaic and not Akkadian itself.
By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well.
By the end of the twentieth century " Negro " had come to be considered inappropriate and was rarely used and perceived as a pejorative.
By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.
By the 1st century BC, Aediles were elected in July, and took office on the first day in January.
By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.
By the 19th century orchestral music in Europe had standardized the string section into the following homogeneous instrumental groups: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.
By the end of the 18th century there were no factories or mills and only a few small cottage industries along the border with Zurich.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, Steiner's interests turned to explicitly spiritual areas of research.
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