 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 376 strani
...as by the zeal and ardour with which the science has been constantly promoted by them. Towards the latter part of the seventeenth century, and the beginning of the eighteenth, practical astronomy seems rather to have languished; but, at the same time, the theoretical part was... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 370 strani
...as by the zeal and ardour with which the science has been constantly promoted by them. Towards the latter part of the seventeenth century, and the beginning of the eighteenth, practical astronomy seems rather to have languished; but, at the same time, the theoretical part was... | |
 | 1842 - 604 strani
...strange and anomalous state of our foreign relations, especially with Spain and Portugal, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, and the beginning of the eighteenth. But of all the exploits of mingled valour and wickedness which at once illustrated and disgraced the... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 590 strani
...from £2,022,812, in 1662, (and they were about the same in 1668,) to £6,788,166, in 1699 * In the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, such considerable importations of Indian calicoes, muslins, and chintzes were made, as to excite the... | |
 | 1838 - 406 strani
...been always well received." These * No. LI. A paper full of witty censures upon the comedies of the latter part of the seventeenth century, and the beginning of the eighteenth century. VOL. m. N observations are strictly true in reference to the comedy under consideration ;... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 456 strani
...Haye, 1734.) WW AA, PIETER VAN DER, a learned and enterprising bookseller of Leyden, who lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, the golden age of bookselling in Holland. He carried on business, with the assistance of two brothers,... | |
 | 1881 - 670 strani
...collection of political and theological tracts, of sermons, miscellanies, and ballads bearing on the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. Lord Berkeley de Stratton presented several Aldines, one of them the fine editio princeps of Aristotle,... | |
 | 1861 - 922 strani
...and life, with a view to the reformation of manners. But how much of the English literature of the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth must now be expurgated, not only because bald and coarse in manner, but also, as Macaulay characterizes... | |
 | 1861 - 924 strani
...and life, with a view to the reformation of manners. But how much of the English literature of the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth must now be expurgated, not only because bald and coarse in manner, but also, as Macaulay characterizes... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1871 - 242 strani
...beginning." The faith of man in purgatives seems to have been always great. The medical men of the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth used them, as we have seen, quite as freely as the most reckless quack herbalist of our day ; and at... | |
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Spoerer developed that demonstration further, that in the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth the northern hemisphere of the sun failed for many years to produce a single recorded spot. 
