| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 470 páginas
...eighteenth century. This condition could not fail to be reflected, after a time, in the colonies; and the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries mark the centre of a period of intellectual coma almost as profound as that existing in the mother... | |
| Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1899 - 364 páginas
...the " Cameralistic" writers, is found in the controversialists on the scheme for the general excise at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. 2 In Italy the number of authors was perhaps more numerous, but their influence was small. 8 In our... | |
| Frederic Morell Holmes - 1899 - 200 páginas
...later, the Westminster in 1717, the London in 1720, and the Royal Exchange in the same year. Therefore, the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries saw the practice of fire insurance well established in Britain as an organized system. Now, these offices... | |
| James Mackinnon - 1902 - 876 páginas
...of another contemporary Scotsman, who played a great role in English and Scottish financial circles at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. William Paterson founded the Bank of England on the principle that paper could only be safely issued,... | |
| Huguenot Society of London - 1905 - 420 páginas
...class of men, and it was exceedingly fortunate for England that their services were available when at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries she began to change her insular position for one of Continental and Imperial importance. If my present... | |
| 1905 - 412 páginas
...memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value." +... | |
| Vernon Staley - 1907 - 248 páginas
...sceptical person of the fact that a wide divergence in ceremonial existed in the churches of France at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Le Brun Desmarettes, the author, wrote as an eye-witness, describing what he saw during an ecclesiological... | |
| Werrett Wallace Charters - 1923 - 498 páginas
...by the doctrine of formal discipline. The doctrine of formal discipline met with general acceptance at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. At this time the course of study was encountering severe criticism on the ground that the narrow humanitarian... | |
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