...sketch of the brightest lights among the remarkable players who acted as a connecting link between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. While they dominate the scene changes are taking place in the drama ; the old order of things is vanishing,...

...of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might...

...Louisiana. The colony included under this designation had been settled originally by the French at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It had led a struggling and feeble existence, and in 1763 it was ceded to Spain to recompense her for...

...summer'sjgolden prophecy. THE OLD WHALING PORT. BY CHARLOTTE MOLYNEUX HOI.I.OWAY. New London's history, in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, was far from a placid and continuous procession to prosperity, though the ambition of its settlers that...

...Christianity 1789-1815 The French Revolution A serious step in the secularization of European thought came at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century — la crise de la conscience europenne. Most of the usual arguments against Christianity were then...

...among historians as to the very pronounced differences between the English and French economies at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. One voice, however, has been raised in opposition to this consensus in recent years, that of Immanuel...

...contrasted markedly with the small burgher gardens around towns and along rivers. But in their turn, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, a new generation of merchants and burghers was to be inspired by the princely tradition in gardening...

...RICHARD TUCK i The context of Grotius' career When the history of recent moral philosophy was written at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, a consistent account was given of the role of Hugo Grotius. In the eyes of men like Samuel Pufendorf,...

...with which we then dealt first. The fact remains that there were some Duteh jurists, in particular at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, who in the first place made essential contributions to historical criticism of the Roman legal sources;...

...its European part, and Siberia were published (Large Atlas, 1 627, Atlas of Siberia by SV Remezov at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, and others). The Siberian territories, from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, were described in the reports...