History quiz

What are some words or phrases used in the 1790s?

Here are some words and phrases frequently used in the 1790s, the last decade of the 18th century:

Words:

* Aesthetics

* Democratical

* Enthusiasm

* Federalist

* Fraternization

* Gallant

* Inimical

* Malign

* Philanthropy

* Quixotic

* Sublime

* Terpsichorean

* Tyrannical

* Verisimilitude

* Zealous

Phrases:

* 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