...— a book invaluable to one who wishes to study the manners and the ideas of bourgeois England at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century." Mr. Besant says that he found the book of use in writing " Dorothy Forster " and " For Faith and Freedom."...

...composer, he was chiefly occupied with church music, no cello pieces are known by him. i Born towards the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, in Milan; died after 1770, in which year Burney found him still living. Of MORIA, the fact only is...

...halflength portrait of a young Divine, dark and ovalfaced and with thick dark hair. He apparently belongs to the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, and is in all probability Dr. Edmund Meyricke, who was Probationer Fellow in 1662, but resigned before...

...things ; a book invaluable to one who wishes to study the manners and ideas of the English bourgeois at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Their language, their opinions, and their points of view; their science and their formalities, their...

...equally in the dark as to the pottery made by Mr. Place, of the Manor House at York, some time towards the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. This ware has often been referred to as a kind of porcelain, but the treasured specimen, formerly in...

...author of the Archceologia Britannica, rescued some of the manuscripts from probable destruction at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, and that he told the Royal Society that he had consulted the best Irish scholars of the time as to these...

...for some time the main export, but mahogany, which came into use in England for making furniture at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, gradually rivalled and till lately superseded it in importance. Even in spite of the fall in value...

...world. It has been long common in many of the fresh waters of China, and was introduced into England about the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. On account of the brilliancy of its colors nnd the case with which it is kept in glass globes or other...

...vicar of Rotherham, who once happened to be preaching at a place called Cartmel in Lancashire, 1 toward the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. "The churches," says he, " were so thronged at nine in the morning, that I had much ado to get to the...

...excavation have in the past century gathered and stored. Several of the academies had been founded at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in France, the Royal Academy at Berlin, and the Imperial...