...justly accused of frequent antitheses, inflated diction, idle conceits, and gigantic thoughts. Towards the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, some great champions, mostly in Tuscany, had waged war against the prevailing bad taste, and they had...

...German literature; but Opitz was a solitary phenomenon, and one to whom no equal afterwards appeared. The close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, were marked by retrogression. Bad taste prevailed, and threatened the literature of Germany with complete...

...German literature; but Opitz was a solitary phenomenon, and one to whom no equal afterwards appeared. The close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, were marked by retrogression. Bad taste prevailed, and threatened the literature of Germany with complete...

...the case, our gratitude would have been unmixed with shame. The naturalists who flourished in Britain at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries studied nature with a philosophical eye, and recorded, as their observations, all that could gratify...

...more than twenty years after the Presbytery had been formed. The case was very different, however, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, when the Presbytery was about being formed. Let us now notice Professor Hodge's statement respecting...

...come. The reasons which hindered our detailing the history of the Irish Pastoral Colleges, through the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, here again obstruct our narrative. The wars and tumults which affected the one, of course affected...

...early period in Massachusetts, those in New York, and those planted in Virginia and South Carolina, in the close of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Will not some descendant of the Huguenots gather up the fragments of documents and traditions, so that...

...by Square in Tom Jones." Permit me to add that it was a cant phrase among the deistical writers of the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. If your correspondent can refer to John Leland's View of Deistical Writers, he will find much on the...

...both extremities of the royal army. War had not assumed the scientific chaVOL. n. B racter with which, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, it was conducted, and the expeditions which arose out of the contest between Charles and his Parliament,...

...and there must be a cause for this effect. That if I was not mistaken in my information, there was, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, seven hundred meetings of Friends in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and now they would scarcely...