...England in the sixteenth century : but Scotland was a prey to the same sort of disorders so late as the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In one of the Discourses of the celebrated Scotch patriot, Fletcher of Saltoun, written in 1698, we...

...enamel-painting improved considerably, progressing from MONOCHROME to that of various colours. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the Art arrived at technical perfection, and real pictures were produced with the softest and most...

...odour and the discredit into which his name had fallen. Several tales of this kind accumulated about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. We shall notice but one more, which is remarkable, as being the first in which mention of the deer-stealing...

...heavy artillery on the move, and still less an intimation of a reserve artillery. In the later wars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the conduct of artillery in battle was of the same stamp as that of the Thirty Years' War, though the...

...cockon Militaire. May it be Le cochon Mitre f for which, ami much interesting matter on the libels of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, see Le Noveau Siecle de Louis XIV., Paris, 1857. II. BC UU Club. AN ORDINATION QUERY (21*1 S. iv. 70.)...

...fourth or fifth magnitudes with several others. Similar observations ap» pear to have been made about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, by Cassini and others. Cas« sini discovered a new star of the fourth, and two of the fifth magnitude...

...gaiety, or a feast of comic humour. These attributes had so much effect on the public, that during the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays had possession of the stage, while those of Shakspeare were laid...

...after taught by Calvin, formed the great subject of contention between the Jesuits and the Janséniste in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and which for a time threatened to rend asunder the whole fabric of Romanism. Only in Holland does...

...preconceived opinions. Such a disposition did exist among a considerable class of thinking men about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries : the question with them was, not simply what the Church believed, but how, or wherefore it believed,...

...in the spiritual life. Many parochial societies which had these two objects in view were founded at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, under the name of " Religious Societies," and were sanctioned by Tillotson, Tenison, Beveridge, Stillingfleet,...