| Medicine - 1848 - 544 pages
...also shared in the general amendment. In short, the multiplied changes had effected, during the space from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, a very great amendment in the health of the population, reducing the mortality, it is said,... | |
| William Smith - Biography - 1853 - 1136 pages
...Casaub. ad Dioy. Lai : rt. v. 27), the series of philo-logists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle ; and from the beginning of the seven-teenth...school has to boast of, with the exception of Daniel Heinsius, whose desultory la-bours bestowed on the Poetics and Ethics hardly deserve mentioning, not... | |
| Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
...ash-bin and dust-heap. I have about a dozen in my possession, which probably belong to various periods from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. The dearness of tobacco in the early times of its use is evinced by the smallness of the bowls, for... | |
| Greek and Roman biography - Classical biography - 1861 - 1116 pages
...Cnsaub. wi L>mj. ¿«i'ri. v. 27), the series of philologists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle; and from the beginning of the seventeenth...among the large number of eminent scholars which the Ihitch school has to boast of, with the exception of Daniel Ileinsius, whose desultory labours bestowed... | |
| William Smith - Biography - 1867 - 1113 pages
...Casaub. ad Diog. Latrt. v. 27), the series of philologists ends, who paid attention to the writings of Aristotle ; and from the "beginning of the seventeenth...school has to boast of, with the exception of Daniel Heinsius, whose desultory labours bestowed on the Poetics and Ethics hardly deserve mentioning, not... | |
| John Yeats - Commerce - 1871 - 498 pages
...Fabricius Mordent, in 1556; and in 1611 the pantagraph, by the Jesuit, Christopher Schiener. The epoch from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century was noted for the discovery of new facts in science, and for novelties and improvements in mathematical... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 258 pages
...contrast. Suites were the earliest form of instrumental work in detached movements, and continued in favor from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, though sometimes known by other names. They included a great variety of dances, notably the allemande,... | |
| Ferdinand Brunetière - French essays - 1898 - 284 pages
...Wagnerian drama, as in Parsifal or Tristan and Isolde. Much later, in an entirely classical Europe, from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, right on for a hundred and fifty years or even more, French literature held sovereign sway in Italy,... | |
| 1898 - 936 pages
...incidents, epochmaking events, and, above all, in sublime and heroic personages, as is the history of Sweden from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century. That a poor remote country, with a population never exceeding a million and a quarter, should, for... | |
| Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani - History - 1899 - 306 pages
...of the remains of ancient Rome ends with the sixteenth century, but the next period, which extends from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, adds another chapter to the record of loss and disappearance — the destruction of mediaeval buildings.... | |
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