Слова, характерные для 1790‑х годов
В последнем десятилетии XVIII века в английском языке активно использовались такие термины:
- Aesthetics
- Democratical
- Enthusiasm
- Federalist
- Fraternization
- Gallant
- Inimical
- Malign
- Philanthropy
- Quixotic
- Sublime
- Terpsichorean
- Tyrannical
- Verisimilitude
- Zealous
Фразы, популярные в 1790‑х годах
Среди распространённых выражений того времени были:
- Age of Reason
- Blue laws
- By hook or by crook
- Common sense
- Cut to the quick
- Fair play
- For fear that
- Gentlemen's agreement
- Go the whole hog
- Hail Columbia
- In full force
- Know thyself
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- Mind your own business
- Neither fish nor fowl
- Off with his head
- Public good
- Ship of state
- The better angels of our nature
- The best of all possible worlds
- The powers that be
- Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
- United we stand, divided we fall
- Vox populi, vox Dei
