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• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  ...galegroup.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/itweb/sewa21847?db=ECCO ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]'''''
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• Accessible Archives
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states American] newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several important African American newspapers are
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• Aesthetics
  ...fine arts (Beaux-Arts) originated in all [[probability]] in the eighteenth century. ...recent [[origin]] and did not assume definite shape before the eighteenth century, although it has many ingredients that go back to classical, medieval, and
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• Bibliography of American Literature
  ...d, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• Modern Philosophy
  ...history of philosophy beginning from Descartes through the early twentieth century ending in Ludwig Wittgenstein. ...[[mind]], [[epistemology]], and [[metaphysics]] during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are roughly divided into two main groups. The "Rationalists," mos
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• Gourmet
  ...d, "mais s'il n'a pas bonne mine, il me semble mauvais". In the eighteenth century, gourmet and gourmand carried disreputable connotations of [[gluttony]], wh
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• Grammar
  ...contrasted with the grammatical [[analysis]] that began in the nineteenth century but came to fruition in the twentieth, which depends on [[linguistic]] [[re
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• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  ...galegroup.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/itweb/sewa21847?db=ECCO ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]'''''
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• The Enlightenment
  ...in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which [[reason]] was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for ...ication), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectivel
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• Absolutism
  ...e [[influenced]] by [[the Enlightenment]] (eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe)
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• Topography
  ...ki/Ordnance_Survey Ordnance Surveys], and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps. The earliest [[scientific]] su In the 20th century, the term topography started to be used to describe [[surface]] description
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• Occident
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War] in the mid to late 20th Century. In the contemporary political and cultural context, the Western World gene ...stern European empires, and particularly the globe-spanning empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_D
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• Eroticism
  ...]". This theme of intrusion or transgression was taken up in the twentieth century by the French philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille G
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• Electricity
  ...be until the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century] that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The
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• Public domain
  The term ''public domain'' did not come into use until the mid-17th century, although as a [[concept]] "it can be traced back to the [https://en.wikipe ...aw. The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet [https://en.w
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• Shepherd
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] .../wiki/Common_land common lands] in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century moved shepherding from independent [[nomads]] to employees of massive estat
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• Great Awakening
  ...ious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals ...the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially str
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• Childhood
  ...tones, furniture, and school records. He found that before the seventeenth century, children were represented as mini-adults. Since then historians have incre *Müller, Anja, ed. Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age and Identity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.
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• Cosmotheology
  '''Cosmotheology''' is to be distinguished from Derham's eighteenth-century [[astrotheology]] in that the main thrust of the former is not to offer pro ...the [[Milky Way galaxy]]. Although we have known this now for most of the century, and although it gives urgency to the religious questions (especially the [
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• Sacrilege
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...varied considerably. Most [[English]] dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries appealed to the primary sense of stealing objects from a [[church
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• Slavery
  ...in its modern form, for two hundred years. It appeared, in the eighteenth century, as universal and immutable as human nature. [5]</blockquote>
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• Christmas
  ...hology]], and his modern appearance is believed to have originated in 19th century media. ...n letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century.[8] Hence, Xmas is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.
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• Catastrophism
  Until the 19th century the dominant scientific [[beliefs]] in Europe were founded on the [[Bible|b The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. His motivation
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• Intellectual
  ===Nineteenth-century English usage=== ...tellectual", which first came into common use at the end of the nineteenth century, when it was used as a term for the defenders of [[Dreyfus]], see below. T
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• Tarot
  ...he Tarot deck was probably invented in northern [[Italy]] in the fifteenth century. Other scholars who disagree with that theory point to a medieval origin of ...ille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived.
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...gical evolutionary ideas began to appear towards the end of the eighteenth century. A prominent exponent in England was the physician and naturalist Erasmus D ...ovidence, where all depends on God's grace. Although by the mid nineteenth century religious worries were still much in evidence, Charles Darwin met this chal
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• Novel
  ...[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and int During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major l
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• Social movement
  ...d mobility of labour due to the industrialisation and urbanisation of 19th century societies. It is sometimes argued that the freedom of expression, education ...ed in England and North America during the first decades of the nineteenth century and has since then spread across the globe.[Tilly, 2004]
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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Western Philosophy
  ...otle]], for example, wrote on all of these topics; and as late as the 17th century, these fields were still referred to as branches of "natural philosophy"). ...d cosmology, alongside his metaphysics and ethics. Even in the eighteenth century physics and chemistry were still classified as "natural philosophy", that i
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• Occult
  ...mph of empirical sciences and the Age of Enlightenment. "By the eighteenth century these unorthodox religious and philosophical concerns were well defined as ...aspects of its philosophy to most Christian-based occultism since the 17th century.
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...been primarily reserved for God and it was not until the later eighteenth century that the notion of creativity was reformulated and the term ‘creative’ ...nly nature and community, but from his inner self. In the later eighteenth century a cultural and philosophical movement emerged in Germany for which the mean
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 13
  ...). Innumerable dualities of this type were kept bubbling for century after century like a good stew on the fire of mythic unity. Then the bourgeoisie took the By the close of the eighteenth century the fabric was rending in all directions as the process of decomposition be
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• Chosen People
  ...[[Deuteronomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Gene ...l be punished by God for their transgressions. Nevertheless, as the eighth-century prophet [[Hosea]] insists, punishment does not negate their election. Compa
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• 2007-10-22-Positive Conditioning
  ...remaining tribes of earth and not rushing in like eighteenth or nineteenth century missionaries to convert native cultures without any real grasp of what they
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• Information science
  ...Press, 1901</ref> Institutionally, information science emerged in the 19th Century along with many other social science disciplines. As a science, however, i ...experiments.<ref>Korty, Margaret Barton. “Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth Century American Libraries.” ‘‘Transactions of the American Philosophical Soc
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• Many Worlds: The New Universe and Its Theological Implications
  Cosmotheology is to be distinguished from Derham's eighteenth-century astrotheology in that the main thrust of the former is not to offer proof o ...the [[Milky Way]] galaxy. Although we have known this now for most of the century, and although it gives urgency to the religious questions (especially the I
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• Metaphysics
  ...l activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century, it had begun to be called "science" in order to distinguish it from [[phil ...us dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387.[https://dictionary.reference.com/
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• Satan
  For the Chasidic Jews of the eighteenth century, Ha-satan was ''Baal Davar''. ...who is able to provoke [[David]] to destroy Israel. The Chronicler (third century B.C.) regards Satan as an independent agent, a view which is the more strik
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• Languages and Literature
  ...] begins in Northern [[History of India|India]] with [[Pāṇini]], the [[5th century BC]] grammarian who formulated 3,959 rules of [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit] ...of [[science]], [[mathematics]], and other [[formal system]]s in the 20th century led many to attempt a formalization of the study of language as a "semantic
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• Conservatism
  ...ed the critique of [[modernism]], a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative [[Abraham Kuyper]]. Burke was troubled ...clared…this law ... encroached upon property rights... . To the eighteenth century Whig, nothing was more sacred than the rights of property, ... the protest
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• Johann Georg Hamann
  ...a major influence on [[Kierkegaard]]. His influence continued on twentieth century German thinkers, particularly those interested in language. His popularity ...mes (ed.). What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
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• States of Consciousness
  ...h they maintain begins only with Franz Anton Mesmer in the late eighteenth century. Another figure in the late nineteenth century associated with the so-called French, Swiss, English, and American psychoth
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• Samuel Johnson
  ...sh Poets]'', a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. ...umous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition unknown in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses he died on the evening of 13, December 1784, a
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• Harmony
  ...ce to three notes, sounded simultaneously. An anonymous writer of the 13th century (CoussemakerS, i, 297) defined the concordantia (the simultaneity employed ...d imperfect consonances as ‘harmony’ (CoussemakerS, iii, 197); in the 17th century, among other prerequisites for the composition of contrappunto moderno, Chr
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