...also shared in the general amendment. In short, the multiplied changes had effected, during the space from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, a very great amendment in the health of the population, reducing the mortality, it is said,...

...Lai : rt. v. 27), the series of philo-logists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle ; and from the beginning of the seven-teenth to the...the subject of his labours; and a complaint made by Valckenaer, respecting the neg-lect of the philosopher among the ancients, applied at the same time...

...ash-bin and dust-heap. I have about a dozen in my possession, which probably belong to various periods from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. The dearness of tobacco in the early times of its use is evinced by the smallness of the bowls, for...

...¿«i'ri. v. 27), the series of philologists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle; and from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end...among the large number of eminent scholars which the Ihitch school has to boast of, with the exception of Daniel Ileinsius, whose desultory labours bestowed...

...Diog. Latrt. v. 27), the series of philologists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle ; and from the "beginning of the seventeenth to the...the subject of his labours; and a complaint made by Valckenaer, respecting the neglect of the philosopher among the ancients, applied at the same time...

...Fabricius Mordent, in 1556; and in 1611 the pantagraph, by the Jesuit, Christopher Schiener. The epoch from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century was noted for the discovery of new facts in science, and for novelties and improvements in mathematical...

...contrast. Suites were the earliest form of instrumental work in detached movements, and continued in favor from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, though sometimes known by other names. They included a great variety of dances, notably the allemande,...

...Wagnerian drama, as in Parsifal or Tristan and Isolde. Much later, in an entirely classical Europe, from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, right on for a hundred and fifty years or even more, French literature held sovereign sway in Italy,...

...incidents, epochmaking events, and, above all, in sublime and heroic personages, as is the history of Sweden from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. That a poor remote country, with a population never exceeding a million and a quarter, should, for...

...of the remains of ancient Rome ends with the sixteenth century, but the next period, which extends from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, adds another chapter to the record of loss and disappearance — the destruction of mediaeval buildings....