Sentences with 'eighteenth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word eighteenth and other words derived from it.
• « Also, the eighteenth century saw the emergence of new forms of media and new forums for debate that created a larger and better-informed public than ever before in European history. »
• « From the time of the Renaissance, the elites increasingly acquired basic skills, but in the eighteenth century even artisans and small merchants in the cities of central and western Europe sent their children (especially boys) to schools for at least a few years. »
• « Cheap newspapers, magazines and books became commonplace during the eighteenth century, which in turn aided the steady growth of literacy rates. »
• « With the exception of the constitutional monarchy and the strong parliament of Britain, the monarchs of the major states of Europe managed in the eighteenth century to control governments that were at least "absolutist" in their pretensions, although the nobility and local assemblies had much real power almost everywhere. »