| Lady Maria Callcott - 1821 - 356 pages
...the deposit from the water which dripped from a reservoir above. Being accidentally re-discovered, at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, Cardinal Antonio Barberini removed it to his palace, where it still remains. The first drawings from... | |
| 1834 - 358 pages
...her: she is equal to what is much better,—pathos, expression. The fine madrigal of Ward, composed at the end of the sixteenth, or beginning of the seventeenth century, wanted firmness, and a greater equality of voices; the trebles were too powerful, rather shrill; aud... | |
| 1855 - 280 pages
...contributed to the advancement of the science of chemistry, might be added. He was born in Germany at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, and died at Amsterdam in 1668. His works, which are well worth a minute examination, from the mixture... | |
| Shuttleworth family - 1858 - 440 pages
...But the ribbon-loom is a much later invention, having its rise probably in the Netherlands or Germany at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century. Lancellotti, in a work published in Venice in 1636 (but written in 1629), says that Anthony Moller... | |
| 1860 - 844 pages
...church, and in its subsequent pages nearly a hundred well-executed coats of arms, apparently painted at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century. The first coat is, Quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a cross or, 2 and 3, sable, three escallops argent, which... | |
| John Payne Collier - 1865 - 628 pages
...title-page was the same author who wrote " The Adventures of Lady Egeria," printed by R. Waldegrave,. at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, although no edition of the romance before us is known until that of 1656, followed by the present of... | |
| Josiah Gilbert - 1869 - 438 pages
...handsome present of pictures. He died in 1600 at an advanced age. Four other painters, all flourishing at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, bore the charmed name of Vecelli. Marco and Tizianello were father and son. The first, a son of Titian's... | |
| 1871 - 542 pages
...distinction were always in future adhere;! to.* The Cornish historian, Carew, visited these stones at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, and thus describes them : — " There are two moor stones, pitched in the ground, very near together,... | |
| 1871 - 546 pages
...this distinction were always in future adhered to.* The Cornish historian, Carew, visited these stones at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, and thus describes them : — " There are t\vo moor stones, pitched in the ground, very near together,... | |
| 1871 - 546 pages
...distinction were always in future adhered to.» The Cornish historian, Carew, visited these stones at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, and thus describes them :—• " There are two moor stones, pitched in the ground, very near together,... | |
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