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The difference is you never see their first draft, you see their eighteenth.

An eighteenth century person couldn't have understood computers, so clockwork is the closest analogy.

I think he was a mathematician, although such distinctions were not so clear in the eighteenth century.

Nope, laughing gas from the Eighteenth Century; hardly our oldest.

Not to mention the humoural theory of medicine was still prevalent into the eighteenth and nineteenth century in some parts (in particular the antipodes and Canada).

I got laid off about two weeks after my eighteenth birthday and the shop suddenly hired a bunch of new 16-17 year old kids...

Invented twice in the mid-eighteenth century.

But though doctors in the American South routinely abused the bodies of slaves for dissection, by the late eighteenth century Europe had emerged as the premiere place to attend and participate in dissection.

My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient.

Authors in the eighteenth century, even if they had obtained copyright protection in their own countries, would often suffer scandalous losses as their works were ripped off and reprinted without any form of compensation given to them.

For example: > The computer can tell you that titles have shrunk (and you hardly need a computer to tell you that: the bulky eighteenth-century title is commonplace and a target of jokes even today Now of course it's a really god hypothesis that book titles have got shorter.

The site of Babylon has physically sunk over the years so that now the palace and archives of Hammurabi are below the water table and, presumably, reduced to mud > As in the case of Ebla, the vast archive of thousands of documents from eighteenth-century [BC] Mari is preserved because the palace burned down.

Samuel Johnson defined bankers in the eighteenth century as "One that trafficks in money".

The "promenade" (a town or two would meet up, single boys circled clockwise around a circle of anti-clockwise girls) was commonplace in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe.

For something completely different, Amelia Rauser, "The Butcher-Kissing Dutchess of Devonshire: Between Caricature and Allegory in 1784." Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 (Fall 2002): 23-47.

Then suddenly, usually by law on his eighteenth birthday, this so-called 'juvenile delinquent' becomes an adult criminal -- and sometimes wound up in only weeks or months in a death cell awaiting execution for murder." He had singled me out again.

Example: Eighteenth-century Parisians overstated the extent of surveillance, perhaps because they did not really understand its purpose.

Eighteenth century Europe brought a kind of reform to business, the new discipline of economics started to hold politicians at least somewhat accountable for forwarding the cause of trade for its own sake.