 | DeCoursey Fales - Reference - 1919 - 400 pages
...Massachusetts, was probably born in Roxburghshire, one of the extreme southeasterly counties of Scotland, about the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, but came to Boston some time before February 23, 1719/20. On this date he married in the Massachusetts... | |
 | Soviet Union - 1920 - 604 pages
...was the sect " Glookhaia Netovschina " which originated among the peasants in the North of Russia in the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century and did not cease to exist until quite recently. The teachings of that sect were expressed in a hymn :... | |
 | Henry Cecil Wyld - English language - 1920 - 426 pages
...On the above grounds I am therefore inclined to put the late or second shortening of [u] as late as the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Henceforth the chief interest lies in the distribution of the several types of pronunciation among... | |
 | Church history - 1921 - 1056 pages
...general idea of the Congregationalists of America at the period when it was written, that being the close n of Samuel Checkley the younger, mentioned in the Catalogue of the Americ is significant) in the midst of the period that has been called the "Puritan Decline." After stating... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - English poetry - 1924 - 300 pages
...The Athenian Mercury (1690-96) is a true index of the manners and ideas of the English bourgeois at the end of the seventeenth, or the beginning of the eighteenth century, there can be no doubt of the insistent demand of the middle classes for at least an external decency.... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1926 - 510 pages
...the original version, in this MS., which the editor himself describes as a late version belonging to the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, there are lines with less and some with more than the eight (or nine) syllables of that strict line.... | |
 | Science - 1927 - 726 pages
...father or grandfather, we find that this immigration into the Njelele valley must have taken place about the end of the seventeenth, or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Yet Mr. Stubbs, quite correctly on the information given to him by his natives, gives precisely this... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 868 pages
...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 and the ease with which it is kept in glass globes or other... | |
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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. 
