 | 1845 - 716 էջ
...communicating the court news he is always collecting." The perriwig was not always thus bien poudree. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, it was merely a most exaggerated imitation of the Vandyke style of cavalier curls, made of beautiful... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 էջ
...the distance from that point; the proportionality of the areas described about the centre of force, to the times of their description ; the equality of...theory of mechanics owes to Newton has been just given ; those which it owes to Leibnitz, though not equally important, nor equally numerous, are far too... | |
 | 1824 - 878 էջ
...the distance from that point ; the proportionality of the areas described about the centre of force, to the times of their description ; the equality of...theory of mechanics owes to Newton has been just given; those which it owes to Leibnitz, though not equally important nor equally numerous, are far too conspicuous... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 740 էջ
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 748 էջ
...of the country, the Swedish literati have frequently employed Latin in their writings ; and towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Swedish poets preferred to their own language, the German, the Italian, and the French. When Gustavus... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837 - 656 էջ
...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... | |
 | William Dauney, Finlay Dun - 1838 - 436 էջ
...other printed collections. In Tom D'Urfey's " Pills to purge Melancholy,"b originally published at the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and of which an " Dr Burney (Hist. vol. iv. p. 647) says, " In February (1722) there was a benefit... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 460 էջ
...fourth or fifth magnitude, with several others. Similar observations appear to have been made about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, by Cassini and others. Cassini discovered a new star of the fourth, and two of the fifth magnitude... | |
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Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations. 
