...supplied the funds for the erection of Meeting Houses in every part of the country. And to this period — the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century — may be traced almost all those religious foundations which were established for protestant dissenting...

...mystics Jacob Bohme, Arndt, and others. This mystical tendency acquired an immense importance about the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century. A parallel betwixt this period and that of the fourteenth century is obvious. In the fourteenth century,...

...of ancient or modern learning, which interested and divided almost all the learned men of Europe in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, and which still interests, and sometimes divides, learned men, appears a pertinent illustration. It...

...established a trade with Amoy and the Island of Formosa and in 1684 with Canton, where they set up a factory. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the English opened up a trade with the town of Nin-Bo and with the Island of Chusan where they built...

...movements, must carry his researches «till further, and consult the numerous controversial publications of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, to Hoffmann and Alby's histories, and to Bungener's admirable tales ; for the revocation of the Edict...

...that brilliant constellation, whose genius and piety had shed so splendid and beneficent a light over the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century. The principal leaders of this great revival succeeded each other as follows : — The death of Jansenius...

...work. Hesse, Dr. FH : The Terministic Controversy. A Picture of Theological Life in the Period about the End of the Seventeenth and the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. (Der terministische Streit. Ein Bild thcolog. Lebens aus den Granjahren d. 17 u. 18 Jahrh.). By Prof....

...what, on other subjects, we should deem the most extraordinary rashness." Yet the belief of it sunk towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, rapidly, irretrievably. Xo accumulation of evidence, no cleverness or strength of argument, were of...

...distinction was indicated in the Port-Royal Logic, and was enunciated in several logical works published in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. 1 It has been elaborated with great 1 In particular, I have found it in a Compend of Logic, prepared...

...considerable trade in the Netherlands. The taste for Tulip in England was at its greatest height about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It afterwards declined, and gave way to a taste for rare plants from foreign countries. " Then comes...