...records and correspondence, that "the prevailing opinions as to the condition of Wales at this period (the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries) are wholly incorrect," and again that— The theories that the state of religion, morality and literature...

...and versatility of the bold forms and richness of the rhythm that revealed itself in Hungarian music at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Liszt rightly observes, " There is no other music from which European musicians can learn so much rhythmic...

...and versatility of the bold forms and richness of the rhythm that revealed itself in Hungarian music at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Liszt rightly observes, "There is no other music from which European musicians can learn so much rhythmic...

...Mme d'Aulnoy, Mile 1'Heritier, and Mme Le Prince de Beaumont which began to flood French literature at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Perrault's collection stirred up a controversy almost immediately after it was published, not only...

...me, Madam, had you not formerly a more sublime idea of the universe?' Fontenelle, Plurality of Worlds At the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth, centuries the rise of mechanical thinking became evident. This system conceived of man and the universe as a...

...culture frequently presents itself as a species of storytelling. A group of stories that appeared towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries so much summarized the essential story of how an individual tries to understand his own culture that...

...their stocks, and relying on journalists such as Le Clerc and Basnage de Beauval, the Dutch booksellers at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries created and to a great extent manipulated the international market.37 Intellectual and commercial ambitions...

...as an example of such a committee, as it had solved the crisis of the Armenian church in Jerusalem at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries in a similar manner. It is plausible that the Armenian and the Jewish institutions for assisting their...

...process by which it became a necessary complement to these items changed the nature of demand for sugar at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. As Mintz (1985: 78, 108-50) explains, sugar became a "sweetener" more than a medicine, spice, decorative...

...promoted the spread of devotional confraternities like those of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrement. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries marked the culmination of the Catholic Reformation, in which an improved clergy extended its means...