...ordinariness of a career in the Church, and the rewards which such a career might offer, stern moralists at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were inclined to reject 'attraction ' as a dangerous concept. M. Olier (in a treatise posthumously...

...unclear.6 The timing of this shift, clearly traced in the Chadwyck-Healey corpus, seems to coincide with the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries when this blessing falls out of use. From this point on, the usage of Good-bye quickly supersedes that...

...long-distance trade continued in the next two centuries, albeit in a diminished form. A new impetus came at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries with the arrival in the port cities of the Levant of Francos, Sephardim from the city of Livorno. The...

...others put up desperate resistance, as if being led off to execution. This is how things appeared at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, when Peter I decided to "open a window onto Europe" and to build his state after the example of England...

...research into the nature of the economic and colonial competition with France and the Netherlands from the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, with research into the unprecedented rise of London as an imperial metropolis at the core of a world-wide...

...giving rise to a lively and exuberant culture that reached its finest flowering in the Genroku epoch at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The mainstays of Genroku culture were the theatre, painting (chiefly in the form of the woodblock print),...

...court was developed. Torv and Puritan. Betwiat and between Harvard ever was. If Harvard College at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries was deliberately reinforcing its openness to the larger New England community both in terms of government...

...artist's training, however informally, since the Renaissance, yet the early academies in England at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and later the Royal Academy, had tended to neglect the study of anatomy in favour of the study of the...

...into alignment, some extra notes were added, and the disposition altered to two 8's and a 4'. Around the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries the construction of French harpsichords changed from relatively thin-cased instruments in which the...

...in the government's legislative activity in religious matters in the hereditary lands and Bohemia at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries resulted from the need to concentrate forces on the military defence and subsequent campaign against...