 Fontenelle was their precursor, whose long life, extending from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, rendered him the connecting link between the literature of the two periods.  Modern Europe - Page 310by Thomas Henry Dyer - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...accompanied each other : but poetry and elocution have never manifested any symptoms of sympathy with either. From the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, the fashions in dress were carried to the utmost extreme of absurdity ; and imitative art sunk to its... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...This licentiousness seems to have infected the English nation, and, consequently, the English writers, from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, more than any other country in Europe. The prostitution of ge» nius was no where more evident than... | |
 | John Adams Dix - New York (N.Y.) - 1827 - 130 pages
...obtained by deducting from the amount of this difference the amount of the diminished value of money from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century.* The following changes by acts of the state legislature and by the constitution of 1821, are modifications... | |
 | Mary Berry - England - 1828 - 486 pages
...accompa" nied each other ; but that literature never mani" fested any symptoms of sympathy with either. " From the middle of the seventeenth to the " middle of the eighteenth century the fashions " in dress were carried to the utmost extreme *' of deformity ; and imitative art sunk... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Religion - 1839 - 266 pages
...prevent his father's school from training gracious men for the ministry." Minutes, vol. iii. p. 17. the middle of the seventeenth, to the middle of the eighteenth century, presbyterians were the most numerous class of emigrants to this country, and probably more numerous... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1839 - 268 pages
...prevent his father's school from training gracious men for the ministry." Minutes, vol. iii. p. 17. the middle of the seventeenth, to the middle of the eighteenth century, presbyterians were the most numerous class of emigrants to this country, and probably more numerous... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...properly did not commence till after the date to which our present survey is limited. Anatomical science from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century was principally advanced by Malpighi, Stcno, Ruysch, Duvemey, Morgagni, Albinus, Haller, and other... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1843 - 442 pages
...publications certainly many more copies were thrown off than would now find a sale. The fact is, that from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century was the age of pamphlets ; the century that has since elapsed has been the age of periodical publications... | |
 | James Reddie - Maritime law - 1845 - 602 pages
...by a variety of the European nations, at different times ; they increased in number and frequency, from the middle of the seventeenth, to the middle of the eighteenth century; and a custom has thus grown up. Towards the end of the eighteenth, or last century, such an agreement... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...diseases, till the era of Cullen and Brown in the middle of the succeeding century. Anatomical science from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century was principally advanced by Malpighi, Steno, Ruysch, Duverney, Morgagni, Albinus, Hallcr, and other... | |
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