Late Seventeenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words seventeenth century, late, seventeenth and/or century:

    It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.
    Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
    And now their hour is come.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the seventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne’s observation, “I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow.”
    Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)