...general progress of civilization. What times past had left of most barbarous and absurd, sbe^ in rtiany' instances, preserved with religious tenderness. This...complaint of all travellers who visited Spain at the e»d of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries : yet no remedy was applied ; the...

...illustrative. Tins was Dr. William Derham, a most excellent Christian, philosopher, and divine, who flourished at the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; and having finished his studies, took holy orders,...

...English literature, with the single exception of romances and plays for daily use. In France, then, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the higher kinds of poetry were cultivated in a manner too regular and precise, and gradually sunk...

...judge of mankind, and sound agriculturist, declares in strong terms, that the tenantry of Scotland at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries were so benumbed with oppression or poverty, that the most able instructor in husbandry would have...

...Visitation Charges, p. 275. that marriage was void without it. In the intermediate period, and especially at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many remedial measures for the enforcement of the canon were enacted or proposed. The statutes which...

...not so accessary 330 that marriage was void without it. In the intermediate period, and especially at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many remedial measures for the enforcement of the canon were enacted or proposed. The statutes which...

...inhabitants, not more than fifty head o'.¿ cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly fbr subsistence to (lie north of Ireland ; and the poor were not...

...inhabitants, not more than fifty head of cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly for subsistence to the north of Ireland ; and the poor were not...

...inhabitants, not more than fifty head of cattle were slaughtered annually. A succession of bad seasons, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, obliged hundreds of families to fly for subsistence to the north of Ireland ; and the poor were not...

...great perfection. From France it was introduced into England ; the floors of several mansions built at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, being thus constructed. Amongst existing examples are floors in the British museum ; the library at...