 | George Moore - 1814 - 528 pagina’s
...committed ; justice disarmed of its terrors. Such is the complaint of all travellers who visited Spain at the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries : yet no remedy was applied ; the evil was, on the contrary, increasing. Not only churches were a place... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 842 pagina’s
...illustrative. Tins was Dr. William Derham, a most excellent Christian, philosopher, and divine, who flourished at the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; and having finished his studies, took holy orders,... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1818 - 326 pagina’s
...English literature, with the single exception of romances and plays for daily use. In France, then, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the higher kinds of poetry were cultivated in a manner too regular and precise, and gradually sunk... | |
 | Thomas Edgar (writer of verse.) - 1822 - 274 pagina’s
...judge of mankind, and sound agriculturist, declares in strong terms, that the tenantry of Scotland at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries were so benumbed with oppression or poverty, that the most able instructor in husbandry would have... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - 1826 - 524 pagina’s
...Visitation Charges, p. 275. that marriage was void without it. In the intermediate period, and especially at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many remedial measures for the enforcement of the canon were enacted or proposed. The statutes which... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...not so accessary 330 that marriage was void without it. In the intermediate period, and especially at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many remedial measures for the enforcement of the canon were enacted or proposed. The statutes which... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pagina’s
...inhabitants, not more than fifty head of cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly for subsistence to the north of Ireland ; and the poor were not... | |
 | 1835 - 588 pagina’s
...inhabitants, not more than fifty head o'.¿ cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly fbr subsistence to (lie north of Ireland ; and the poor were not... | |
 | 1835 - 566 pagina’s
...inhabitants, not more than fifty head of cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly for subsistence to the north of Ireland ; and the poor were not... | |
 | John Britton - 1838 - 648 pagina’s
...great perfection. From France it was introduced into England ; the floors of several mansions built at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, being thus constructed. Amongst existing examples are floors in the British museum ; the library at... | |
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The dreadful state of the morals of the poor, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, forms the best criterion of the influence of the latitudinarian bishops appointed at the dictum of freeministers. 
