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" Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 373
edited by - 1829
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Lives of Indian Officers: Illustrative of the History of the Civil ..., Volume 1

Sir John William Kaye - British - 1867 - 516 pages
...say, almost as long as the Company itself. A clear idea of one of the Company's establishments, at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, may be derived from a little volume of travels written by one Charles Lockyer, and published in 1711....
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Beeton's Dictionary of natural history

Samuel Orchart Beeton - Zoology - 1871 - 622 pages
...pftlapteryx and the aptornis, are also spoken of by them. It would appear that the diuornis became extinct at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. According to the traditions of the natives, these birds must have had brilliantly coloured plumnge,...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 352 pages
...married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her life was a sad career of dissipation, and as licentious as her books. But she was much to be pitied....
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century

William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her life was a sad career of dissipation, and as licentious as her books. But she was much to be pitied....
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 388 pages
...married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis/ a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her life was a sad career of dissipation, and as licentious as her books. But she was much to be pitied....
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 366 pages
...married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her life was a sad career of dissipation, and as licentious as her books. But she was much to be pitied....
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The Wealth of Nature. Our Food Supplies from the Vegetable Kingdom

Rev. John Montgomery - 1875 - 466 pages
...longcontinued disregard of this most valuable plant. In Scotland the potato began to be cultivated about the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, but only to a very small extent. About the year 1728, Thomas Prentice, a labourer at Kilsyth, devoted...
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The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History ..., Volume 11

Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1888 - 440 pages
...of laud " at y" brook at y' head of Jonathan Woodman's land." TORR GARRISON. A garrison was built at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century by Benedictus Torr,1 but was burned down by the Indians soon after. Another was then erected, which...
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Lectures on Poetry: Delivered at Oxford

Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - English poetry - 1877 - 326 pages
...well-known metre of 'Theodore and Honoria,' ' Palamon and Arcite,' and other such poems, belonging to the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Mr. Morris's rhymed decasyllables may be just as good, may be better, if you will, for a narrative...
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Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, 1868. (Lectures on poetry).

sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 pages
...well-known metre of 'Theodore and Honoria,' 'Palamon and Arcite,' and other such poems, belonging to the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Mr. Morris's rhymed decasyllabics may be just as good, may be better, if you will, for a narrative...
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