 | George Saintsbury - 1896 - 536 pagina’s
...necessities of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might... | |
 | Ralph N. James - 1897 - 568 pagina’s
...Northwick's sale 1859 ... 6 16 6 Myn (Van der).—Of this name there were several Dutch painters who lived at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. The one chiefly worthy of notice was : Van dor Myn's portraits are very smoothly painted and highly... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1897 - 504 pagina’s
...existence of a body of paid soldiers was necessary to the safety of the nation. Englishmen, therefore, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, found themselves placed in this dilemma. With a standing army the country could not, they feared, escape... | |
 | Henry William Carless Davis - 1899 - 286 pagina’s
...resignation. How often detection was escaped it is impossible to tell. Resignations were certainly frequent at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century; and not infrequently they redounded to the advantage of Blundell Scholars. More than this we cannot... | |
 | Ernst Ziegler - 1899 - 668 pagina’s
...bacilli are found in the swollen lymph-glands and in the blood. The bubonic plague, which in Europe at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century still carried off the population in vast numbers (the " Black Death "), has since 1720 almost entirely... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1901 - 472 pagina’s
...But it is remarkable, that since the inevitable and unimportant contempt of the Gallicising period at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, few people who have actually read any considerable part of him fail to speak both with affection and... | |
 | Jessica Blanche Peixotto - 1901 - 438 pagina’s
...the idea of equality seem particularly attractive as a remedial measure. It will be remembered that, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, missionaries began to return to France from the far East and the new West, and that they brought with... | |
 | 1901 - 452 pagina’s
...But it is remarkable, that since the inevitable and unimportant contempt of the Gallicising period at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, few people who have actually read any considerable part of him fail to speak both with affection and... | |
 | Emile Bourry - 1901 - 816 pagina’s
...decorated with blue, violet, or brown enamels. The ornamentation is rich and the forms generally elegant. At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century there also existed at Creussen, not far from Bayreuth, a manufactory of stoneware of a brown body,... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1905 - 1174 pagina’s
...tinged with bile, or with, a very florid tinge of blood. The blood-stained is of all others the worst." At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century Morgagni md Valsalva made many accurate clinical and anatomical observations on the iitttse. Our modern... | |
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old English Preachers, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Indeed, those great masters of the Pulpit were favourite authors with Mr. Aspland. Without being their servile imitator, he improved his own compositions... 
