...encountered by a power of an entirely new kind. The prosperity of the colonies of the New World had, about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, caused an alteration in the condition of those states from which they had proceeded. Navigation was...

...encountered by a power of an entirely new kind. The prosperity of the colonies of the New World had, about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, caused an alteration in the condition of those states from which they had proceeded. Navigation was...

...enamel-painting improved considerably, progressing from MONOCHROME to that of various colours. Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the Art arrived at technical perfection, and real pictures were produced with the softest and most...

...England in the sixteenth century : but Scotland was a prey to the same sort of disorders so late as the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In one of the Discourses of the celebrated Scotch patriot, Fletcher of Saltoun, written in 1698, we...

...heavy artillery on the move, and still less an intimation of a reserve artillery. In the later wars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the conduct of artillery in battle was of the same stamp as that of the Thirty Years' War, though the...

...fourth or fifth magnitudes with several others. Similar observations ap» pear to have been made about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, by Cassini and others. Cas« sini discovered a new star of the fourth, and two of the fifth magnitude...

...gaiety, or a feast of comic humour. These attributes had so much effect on the public, that during the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, many of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays had possession of the stage, while those of Shakspeare were laid...

...powerful Electorates in the German Empire, and one of the most polished and gay courts of Europe during the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. As the capital of one of Napoleon's most devoted allies, it witnessed the highest splendour of that...

...taught by Calvin, formed the great subject of contention between the Jesuits and the Janséniste in pper end of the hall and which for a time threatened to rend asunder the whole fabric of Romanism. Only in Holland does...

...preconceived opinions. Such a disposition did exist among a considerable class of thinking men about the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries : the question with them was, not simply what the Church believed, but how, or wherefore it believed,...