It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered from observations science had made that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at least since the early nineteenth century when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Well well Henry James is pretty good though he is of the nineteenth century and that glaringly.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence and fighting for its own freedom fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

I've never mentioned this but when I was at Parsons teaching the other design disciplines they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.