| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 752 páginas
...scout.' These enigmatical words may fairly be elucidated by a story which in various forms was current in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Lord Broghiii, a younger son of the first Earl of Cork, and after the Restoration created Earl of Orrery,... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 páginas
...reason to think it was at first a reference to the habits of the "bloods" or aristocratic rowdies of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Bloody drunk must originally have meant as drunk as a blood; thence the adjective was extended to kindred... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 páginas
...reason to think it was at first a reference to the habits of the " bloods" or aristocratic rowdies of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Bloody drunk must originally have meant as drunk as a blood ; thence the adjective was extended to... | |
| John Morgan - 1892 - 224 páginas
...the circumstances and conditions under which he carried it on. It is commonly acknowledged that at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century religion was at a deplorably low ebb throughout the United Kingdom. A large portion of our historical... | |
| Herbert Percy Horne - 1894 - 346 páginas
...speaking, in this place. But I may add, that some charming effects of colour were obtained in France at the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, by a method, which is known as marbling under the gold. The edges of the book are fanned out, right... | |
| Allan McLane Hamilton, Lawrence Godkin - 1894 - 670 páginas
...fostered and encouraged in England by law And custom, the reverse was the case on the Continent. In the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, ordinances forbidding the insurance of lives of persons were issued in the Netherlauds, in Genoa, Amsterdam,... | |
| Allan McLane Hamilton - 1894 - 692 páginas
...fostered and encouraged in England by law and custom, the reverse was the case on the Continent. In the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, ordinances forbidding the insurance of lives of persons were issued in the Netherlands, in Genoa, Amsterdam,... | |
| Sir John Francis Harpin Broadbent (bart.) - 1896 - 136 páginas
...visum est cor cum pericardio connatum post miseras angustias et palpitationes, homines occidisse.' * About the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, Lower, Vieussens, and Lancisi began to investigate the subject from a clinical and diagnostic point... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1895 - 502 páginas
...of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition ; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might... | |
| Edward Robins - 1895 - 390 páginas
...sketch of the brightest lights among the remarkable players who acted as a connecting link between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. While they dominate the scene changes are taking place in the drama ; the old order of things is vanishing,... | |
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