...Greifcnson, called von Grimmelahausen. Gormanistic studies received a fresh impetus at Straesbnrg about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Raumor says, " it makes a painful impression that Straesbnrg was lost to tho German Empire at the very...

...They were the diplomatists in petticoats, the forerunners of those arrogant mistresses who, toward the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, exercised at almost all courts a decisive influence over the political affairs of the time. These ladies...

...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,...

...They were the diplomatists in petticoats, the forerunners of those arrogant mistresses who, toward the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, exercised at almost all courts 'a decisive influence over the political affairs of the time. These...

...picture of that exterior softening of antagonisms which Latitudinarians had attempted to introduce at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and which also took place in Germany, though only as a transition. The positive Anglican mind, which...

...picture of that exterior softening of antagonisms which Latitudinarians had attempted to introduce at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and which also took place in Germany, though only as a transition. The positive Anglican mind, which...

...moving the affections.' His letters, of which several remain, written to Ken, Lloyd, and Sancroft, about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, give the idea of a man of unaffected humility and simple piety, of a happy, kindly disposition, and...

...Mr. Abbey opens with an introductory sketch of the position and prospects of the English Church at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and Mr. Overton follows with a history of the Church in relation to the Jacobites. The third chapter...

...Clopton, who was instituted in 1616, was the first Rector who signed his name to the Registers. At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, we notice the custom of baptizing infants at a very early age, For instance, in 1699 we have : (1)...

...great cycle of warfare arose out of the general coalition against Louis XIV., and ran its course at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, about fifty years after the leading principles of Grotius had been embodied in the Peace of Westphalia....