...other subjects, we should deem the most extraordinary rashness." Yet the belief of it sunk towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, rapidly, irretrievably. Xo accumulation of evidence, no cleverness or strength of argument, were of...

...considerable trade in the Netherlands. The taste for Tulip in England was at its greatest height about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It afterwards declined, and gave way to a taste for rare plants from foreign countries. " Then comes...

...end of Bow Street, Covent Garden, was a place famous for concerts, balls, and other amusements, in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Prince Eugene once attended a concert at this house. The Two WHITE BALLS, in Marylebone Street, was...

...Clarke and Woolastou. THE ETHICAL THEORY OF BISHOP BUTLEE.1 THE current of philosophical thought in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century set in the direction of the inquiry, ' What constitutes Morality or Virtue?' — in other words, 'What...

...this reasoning disarms modern criticism. A practice more consistent with modern ideas was introduced at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, and completed by the practice of the latter century and eventually by a Statute of 6 and 7 Will. IV,...

...originate, gave, at any rate, an immense impulse to the production and circulation of chap-books. Towards the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the libraries of poor folk consisted of only a Bible, the Confession of Faith, a bunch of ballads,...

...British Flora. By George Bentham, FRS Lond. 1858. Budd. Herb. — Herbarium collected by Adam Buddie at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, contained in 14 vols. (54 and 114 — 126) of Sir Hans Sloane's Herbarium in the British Museum. CB...

...in French. 77 The Bourignonists spread from Holland to Germany, France, Switzerland and England, and at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century held a position not unlike to that of the Swedenborgians in later times. Some still kept up their connection...

...admission, much primitive simplicity in the " style and manners " of wealthy Manchester. It was not till the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century that " the traders had certainly got money beforehand, and began to build modern brick-houses, in place...

...buried in the Bastile, all vestiges of his existence being removed. . That this was possible in France at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, is a sad commentary on the character of the French nation. With oppressions of this nature every vestige...