Eighteenth
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Ever since (at least) the
eighteenth
century, with its cult of the "noble savage", tropical islands have frequently been seen in Western culture as the nearest that it is possible to come to Paradise on earth.
More example sentences with word eighteenth
It's actually a nickname given to priests in the
eighteenth
century."
The first person to do this systematically was Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, a Swedish botanist, who in the
eighteenth
century took it upon himself to categorize every living organism on the planet.
It's easy to dismiss this as the perhaps well-intentioned but ultimately benighted musings of an
eighteenth
century scientist working in the pre-Darwinian era.
A bit of a late bloomer, it is not until her
eighteenth
year that she finally begins to make the transition from awkward adolescent to self-possessed young woman.
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