 | 1919 - 424 pàgines
...single truncated foot or base, -sometimes called a tazza, was made in large •quantities in England during the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth, until it was •ousted from favour by the more popular three-legged waiter or salver. An exactly similar... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 pàgines
...culture of the earth into disrepute with (he nobility and gentry." An insight into the conditions of the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of ' the eighteenth is given us by Lisle, who wrote the [ introduction to his "Observations on Husbandry" in ¡ 1713. He... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 788 pàgines
...culture of the earth into disrepute with the nobility and gentry." An insight into the conditions of the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of i the eighteenth is given us by Lisle, who wrote the j introduction to his "Observations on Husbandry"... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 pàgines
...may find some traces of a more active religious life. They were, however, chiefly in the last years of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The Society for f the Promotion of Christian Knowledge was founded by a fe» private gentlemen in 1696.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1882 - 44 pàgines
...book from which more is to be learned than from any other of the life of Boston and its neighborhood during the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth, — it would appear that Mr. Norton had grave doubts as to coming into the Church. "Satterday, Mar.... | |
 | Hingham (Mass.) - 1882 - 204 pàgines
...book from which more is to be learned than from any other of the life of Boston and its neighborhood during the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth, — it would appear that Mr. Norton had grave doubts as to coming into the Church. "Satterday, Mar.... | |
 | 1885 - 502 pàgines
...582.] WP 0. ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722), an eminent. Scottish surveyor and map maker, lived during the close of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The earliest known mention of his name is by Sir Robert Sibbald, his patron, from whom Adair received... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1898 - 1098 pàgines
...Deventer, and was a professor at Franeker and Utrecht. His opponent was the famous Vitringa. It may be said that during the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first of the eighteenth philosophy, rather than pure Christian theology, ruled in the pulpits of the Reformed... | |
 | Lewis Flint Anderson - 1909 - 370 pàgines
...which may be considered the first normal school.) Indeed " during the last quarter of the seventeenth and the first quarter of the eighteenth century there...activity in relation to the education of the poor which . . . may be regarded as little else than extraordinary." In 1699 the English Society for Promoting... | |
 | Johnson Brigham - 1910 - 354 pàgines
...his themes touching "all that is most interesting and instructive in the history of British commerce during the last quarter of the seventeenth century, and the first quarter of the eighteenth." William Paterson was hardly a merchant prince, for in his time he met with severe reverses; and, too,... | |
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Gresham Colledge," sending home observations, both serious and satiric, upon collections and experiments. It has indeed been suggested that the "early development of Anglomania... 
