...political and moral versatility which forms one of the most disgraceful characteristics of European society during the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries, but which seems in those times to have been little thought of, reverted to the royalist cause, and...

...opposition to that exclusive regard to the forms of artificial and conventional life, of which the poetry of the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century is so deplorably full. Admirable satire was the very highest order of poetry which such materials...

...political and moral versatility which forms one of the most disgraceful characteristics of European society during the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries, but which seems in those times to have been little thought of, reverted to the royalist cause, and...

...described as a " Free Mason," and it may well be assumed that among the members of the Masonic craft in the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries were members of the Royal Society other than those whose names are mentioned above. DUDLEY WBIQHT....

...while five flourishing Oratories attested his benignant influence in Poland. Nearly all this was in the latter half of the seventeenth, and the first half of the eighteenth centuries : and now the middle of the nineteenth finds him trying, after his own fashion, to work his way into...

...a new phase of the same principle — toward the destruction of a churchly cultus. Through the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries run two parallel tendencies : pietism with its unsteady subjective zeal for practical personal religion,...

...energies into that series of ordinances which conferred so great a celebrity on the legislation of the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries, — had not the National Assembly, in the last days of the monarchy, accomplished the overthrow of...

...been forced to wear the garb and mien of a low jester and buffoon. The perverted taste of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries seemed to be unequal to the true appreciation of this grand and gloomy creation of the poet. Yet we...

...History. Vol. I. The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. Vol. II. Ware in Western Europe during the Second Half of the Seventeenth, and the First Half of the Eighteenth Centuries. St. Petersburg 1873. VISCOVATOW. Historical Description of the Clothing and Arming of Russian Troops....

...copyists, and our Banks (Benjamin) 1727—95, тay even be called the English Amati. During the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries the Duke mania in England raged so furiously that hardly a respectable kitchen in the land, not to...