| Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth - Ireland - 1911 - 232 pages
...manufacture of linen. The industry was firmly established by the introduction of Dutch Huguenot workers at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. One of these, Louis Crommelin, established factories at Lisburn and Hilden, where the industry still... | |
| John George Robertson - German literature - 1911 - 338 pages
...philosophic movement contributed in no small degree towards bringing England and Germany closer together at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. And it was not unnatural that the first avenue by which English influence found its way to the continent... | |
| James George Frazer - Magic - 1912 - 332 pages
...singing of a song, which begins, " Now we carry Death out of the village and Spring into the village." * At the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century the custom was observed in Thuringen as follows. The boys and girls made an effigy of straw or the... | |
| George Morey Miller - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 176 pages
...continuity of natural law. Even the movement toward plainness, simplicity and truth in literary style at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century had a helpful reaction on the tone and spirit of historical writing. By the middle of the eighteenth... | |
| Samuel Butler - Monasteries - 1913 - 356 pages
...some standard Hebrew writer. The statues are the work of a local sculptor, named Aureggio, who lived at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. The highest chapel must be a couple of hundred feet above the main buildings, and from near it there... | |
| William Cunningham - 1917 - 70 pages
...bring religious truth into line with the intellectual habits of the day. This standpoint was adopted at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century by the English Deists, and it lies at the root of the great development of scientific theology in Germany... | |
| William Cunningham - Religion - 1917 - 68 pages
...bring religious truth into line with the intellectual habits of the day. This standpoint was adopted at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century by the English Deists, and it lies at the root of the great development of scientific theology in Germany... | |
| Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães - Africa, East - 1918 - 466 pages
...Gazetteer, xiv, 28 ff. It was for long a most important and prosperous place, but showed signs of decay at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, and finally, after a heroic resistance, was taken by the Marathas in 1739, and was ultimately annexed... | |
| Africa, East - 1918 - 378 pages
...Gazetteer, xiv, 28 ff. It was for long a most important and prosperous place, but showed signs of decay at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, and finally, after a heroic resistance, was taken by the Marathas in 1739, and was ultimately annexed... | |
| Peter Hampson Ditchfield - England - 1920 - 306 pages
...love-making and marrying, and earning a living. This making a living was a mighty difficult thing. At the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, it seemed that the nation was on the road to ruin, a road that is somewhat familiar to us modern folk.... | |
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