...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...

...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,...

...remain, to us of blind musicians of the past, are few and scanty. Among the crowd of names that greet us at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, is that of Carolan, the Irish harper. He was one of the last and most famous of the Irish bards, and...

...from the Pietistic controversy which was carried on in the Protestant Churches of Germany and Holland at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Persecution drove the members of this sect from their "fatherland." The great body of them took refuge...

...practical knowledge in the potteries of Holland. These are but instances out of many; yet prior to the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the gaudy-coloured plaques, huge dishes, quaint mugs, and tygs of Staffordshire ware, were in many...

...not able to penetrate beyond Tenda, which continued for years to be the limit of discovery. Between the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries much information respecting the country on the Senegal was due to the activity of Brue, who had a large...

...of our neighbours across the Channel led to the fearful wars and desolation which overspread Europe at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and finally brought the most humiliating reverses upon themselves. It would be unworthy prejudice to...

...previously discovered islands. This supposed continent is still represented in the old maps published at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, by a mass of ill-defined contours, with this indication : Terra Australia incognita. The succeeding...

...founded, as one might suspect from the name, by a colony of Swiss. During the religious persecutions of the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, England gave harborage to many thousand Swiss and Germans. These homeless men afforded excellent material...

...application of coloured reliefs to the sides of vessels in clay was a usual method of ornamentation. At the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries embossment and reliefs were brought again into use. The brothers Elers made many of their fine red...