Thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment
Thomas Paine
1737 – 1809
Politicsquotes
Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
William_Herschel
1738 – 1822
Sciencequotes
An object may not only contain stars, but also nebulosity not composed of them.
Ethan Allen
1738 – 1789
Militaryquotes
Ethan Allen was an American farmer, writer, military officer, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and was also the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Fanny Allen.
In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!
Jonathan Boucher
1738 – 1804
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Jacques-Louis Ménétra
1738 – 1812
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Journal of My Life is an autobiography by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, an eighteenth-century master glazier in Paris. Begun in 1764, when Ménétra returned from a journeyman's tour of the French provinces, Ménétra's text intersperses accounts of his life on the road and in Paris with tall tales, braggadocio, jokes, and accounts of his seductions and pranks. In the words of historian Robert Darnton, Ménétra's narrative "restores the human dimension to the study of social conditions and brings flesh and blood to lifeless sociological categories.
George III of the United Kingdom
1738 – 1820
Politicsquotes
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814.
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
Cesare Beccaria
1738 – 1794
Philosophyquotes
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
Cesare Beccaria at McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought.
Henry Temple
1739 – 1802
Politicsquotes
Henry Temple may refer to:Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston, Irish nobleman and British politician Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739–1802), grandson of the above, Irish nobleman and British politician Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), son of the above, prime minister of the United Kingdom Henry W. Temple (1864–1955), Republican politician from Pennsylvania
I will not talk of non-intervention, for it is not an English word.
Words from April 11
"One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."
Thomas Paine
1737
"The Apostle: Thomas Paine and the Making of the Modern World"
Thomas Paine
1737
"An object may not only contain stars, but also nebulosity not composed of them."
William_Herschel
1738
"I have made it a rule never to employ a larger telescope when a smaller will answer the purpose."
William_Herschel
1738
"In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!"
Ethan Allen
1738
"The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it."
Ethan Allen
1738