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" Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations. "
The Scottish Historical Review - Page 415
1909
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 74

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...
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Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions

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...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...

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...
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Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern ... with a Brief Notice of ...

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...
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A dictionary of geography, ancient and modern

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...
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A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent ..., Volume 1

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...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 23

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1839 - 948 pages
...into other printed collections. In Tom D'Urfey's ' Pills to purge Melancholy,' originally published at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and of which an enlarged edition appeared in 17 1!), there are some Scottish airs ; and among these...
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A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 99

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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 18

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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