 | 1845 - 716 páginas
...communicating the court news he is always collecting." The perriwig was not always thus bien poudree. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, it was merely a most exaggerated imitation of the Vandyke style of cavalier curls, made of beautiful... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 462 páginas
...in the same immortal work; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 462 páginas
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | 1824 - 844 páginas
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | 1824 - 878 páginas
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1824 - 846 páginas
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belonge to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were Ф rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the... | |
 | Amable Guillaume P. baron Brugière de Barante - 1833 - 254 páginas
...began also to stagger and become matters of doubt. Such altogether is the picture presented to us of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Authority had lost its respectability and a part of its power ; religion had ceased to be a universal... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 748 páginas
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 740 páginas
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1837 - 366 páginas
...oratorio is the highest walk of the art. This epic branch seems to have arrived at perfection about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Previous to that era it was not sufficiently dramatic, and subsequent to it became too secular. In... | |
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Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations. 
