...end of Bow Street, Covent Garden, was a place famous for concerts, balls, and other amusements, in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Prince Eugene once attended a concert at this house. The Two WHITE BALLS, in Marylebone Street, was...

...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...

...Clarke and Woolastou. THE ETHICAL THEORY OF BISHOP BUTLEE.1 THE current of philosophical thought in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century set in the direction of the inquiry, ' What constitutes Morality or Virtue?' — in other words, 'What...

...reasoning disarms modern criticism. A practice more consistent with modern ideas was introduced at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, and completed by the practice of the latter century and eventually by a Statute of 6 and 7 Will. IV,...

...originate, gave, at any rate, an immense impulse to the production and circulation of chap-books. Towards the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the libraries of poor folk consisted of only a Bible, the Confession of Faith, a bunch of ballads,...

...in French. The Bourignonists spread from Holland to Germany, France, Switzerland and England, and at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century held a position not unlike to that of the Swedenborgians in later times. Some still kept up their connection...

...British Flora. By George Bentham, FRS Lond. 1858. Budd. Herb. — Herbarium collected by Adam Buddie at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, pontained in 14 vols. (54 and 114 — 126) of Sir Hans Sloane's Herbarium in the British Museum. CB...

...admission, much primitive simplicity in the " style and manners " of wealthy Manchester. It was not till the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century that " the traders had certainly got money beforehand, and began to build modern brick-houses, in place...

...in the Bastile, all vestiges of his existence being removed. . That this was possible in France at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, is a sad commentary on the character of the French nation. With oppressions of this nature every vestige...

...la porte en entrant au conseiL* To these triflers, however, may be opposed a few higher worthies in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Molidre, Racine, Boileau, and De la Fontaine have left sonnets of unexceptionable form. Voltaire's...