...EAKI.Y PART OK Till'. l8lll CENTURY Undoubtedly the finest specimens of these works of art were made at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and undoubtedly also these specimens are now most difficult to procure. When they are occasionally...

...cause of thankfulness that a dear relation is so eminently useful and has his health so well."1 At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries the commercial expansion of England was beginning. It was an immense national impulse striving for...

...and gayety or a feast of comic humor. 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 Shakespeare were...

...Schlegel made advances 281 DRAMA. in the appreciation of the laws of dramatic composition, yet through the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries the <нттап theatre was little more than a feeble relli x of French influence. Lessing, however,...

...nolles en France, proves the average life of a French noble family to be about three hundred years. At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries the haute noblesse d'dtat frequenting the French Court looked like une societt de malades. The bourgeoisie...

...Boisguillebert, outside of the light which it would throw upon the difference of French and English society at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, would disclose the origin of the national contrast between English and French Political Economy. The...

...Chapter III. This famous chapter is still one of the best accounts of social conditions in England at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, by John Ashton, 1882. This is the best account of dress, manners,...

...internal os — placenta praevia. Our knowledge concerning this abnormality may be said to date from the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Portal, in 1685, and Schacher, in 1709, having accurately described the condition from a clinical and...

...of French-Canadian history, Quebec and Montreal ; to sketch the society of the city of Champlain at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries ; to picture the brilliant Gascon chevalier who laid the foundations of our American city of Detroit,...

...Thus both the spiritual and the evangelical currents of Christian thought took their rise in Russia at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Their teaching, however, did not remain unchanged. Subsequently both currents, about a century later,...