“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
Lord Illingworth, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
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“All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.”
Source: Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 7, "The Manse of Iucounu"
Defending the film Life of Brian on BBC chat show Friday Night Saturday Morning (9 November 1979)
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Attila the Hun
Vision for Scotland in the European Union (December 12, 2007)
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity—the thought of a musical concert in which a class of "experts" performed for an appreciative audience was virtually unkown throughout our history as a species. And it has only been in the last hundred years or so that the ties between musical sound and human movement have been minimized.
Major Richard Sharpe and Major General Nairn
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Regiment (1986)
“What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.”
Collected Works, Vol. 30, p. 502–15, Third All-Russia Trade Union Congress http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/apr/07.htm
Collected Works
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Two