 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1823 - 288 halaman
...highest state of territorial authority, was little known till the time of Peter the Great. This monarch, at the close of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth century, performed more -diatB any other monarch for the civilization, prosperity and happiness of his country.... | |
 | Johann Christian Stahlschmidt - 1837 - 396 halaman
...continued his acquaintance with her till her death. Her numerous writings caused an astonishing sensation at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, throughout Europe, but particularly in Germany. The purest and fairest mystic divinity which breathes... | |
 | John Richard Darley (bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.) - 1839 - 176 halaman
...the Wolfian theory ? Francis Hedelin, better known as the Abbé d' Aubignac, and Charles Perrault, at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. Dean Prideaux ninted, in his life of Mahomet, that Homer's Rhapsodies were compiled out of his loose... | |
 | 1842 - 540 halaman
...with a haziness of atmosphere which caused great consternation. Churches were crowded with suppliants. At the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, those lights were not seen for a long period, and when they re-appeared, about the year 1817, our ancestors,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1843 - 394 halaman
...so far South as to illuminate the sky in our latitude. Sometimes the; do not appear for many yeats. At the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the "eighteenth century those lights were not seen for a long period, and when they re-appeared, about the year 1717, our ancestors,... | |
 | 1845 - 1270 halaman
...claim at least to local celebrity. James Menteith was minister of Borgue for upwards of forty years at the close of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth century. He was called from Kilmarnock, whither he had come from Ireland a few years before, by the heritors... | |
 | 1846 - 810 halaman
...been such proper times." " Ac' cordingly, as far back as we have any clear and au' thentic evidence, at the close of the seventeenth and ' beginning of the eighteenth century, we find, that, in ' and about London, where it may be supposed the con' gregation was found sufficient,... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 halaman
...existence of freedom, and seem to have transmitted the same feeling to their posterity. Accordingly, at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, the legislative assemblies of Massachusetts and New York enacted, that no taxation could be imposed... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 530 halaman
...Salisbury, and of Durham. The Earl of Shrewsbury, the early friend of Lord Somers, — head of the house at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century,— who took a leading part in two revolutions, — in bringing in King William, and bringing in King George,... | |
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The letters contain amusing descriptions of life at Oxford and in the country at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. 
