 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.  A Dictionary of Terms in Art - Sida 170redigerad av - 1854 - 474 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1845 - 716 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 844 sidor
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | 1824 - 878 sidor
...in the same immortal work ; a fuller account of which belongs to the history of physical astronomy. The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries were rendered illustrious, as we have already seen, by the mathematical discoveries of two of the greatest... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 740 sidor
...known out 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 sidor
...known out 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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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