| 1845 - 716 pages
...communicating the court news he is always collecting." The perriwig was not always thus bien poudree. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, it was merely a most exaggerated imitation of the Vandyke style of cavalier curls, made of beautiful... | |
| 1824 - 878 pages
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
| 1824 - 844 pages
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1834 - 748 pages
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1834 - 740 pages
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837 - 656 pages
...England in the sixteenth century : but Scotland was a prey to the same sort of disorders so late as the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In one of the Discourses of the celebrated Scotch patriot, Fletcher of Saltoun, written in 1698, we... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 pages
...England in the sixteenth century : but Scotland was a prey to the same sort of disorders so late as the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In one of the Discourses of the celebrated Scotch patriot, Fletcher of Saltoun, written in 1698, we... | |
| 1840 - 460 pages
...fourth or fifth magnitude, with several others. Similar observations appear to have been made about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, by Cassini and others. Cassini discovered a new star of the fourth, and two of the fifth magnitude... | |
| 1841 - 272 pages
...the guinea; and the whole coin to become more solid and compact. The coin went on improving during the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The artist who ranks next to Simon is Croker, chief engraver at the Mint in the reign of Queen Anne.... | |
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