 | John Whitridge Williams - 1904 - 918 pages
...internal os — placenta praevia. Our knowledge concerning this abnormality may be said to date from the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Portal, in 1685, and Schacher, in 1709, having accurately described the condition from a clinical and... | |
 | Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov - Russia - 1905 - 630 pages
...Thus both the spiritual and the evangelical currents of Christian thought took their rise in Russia at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Their teaching, however, did not remain unchanged. Subsequently both currents, about a century later,... | |
 | Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov - Russia - 1905 - 638 pages
...Thus both the spiritual and the evangelical currents of Christian thought took their rise in Russia at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Their teaching, however, did not remain unchanged. Subsequently both currents, about a century later,... | |
 | Chartered Insurance Institute - Insurance - 1905 - 526 pages
...starting point, and the experience necessary to organise the business was rapidly attained, because the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries witnessed the birth of companies whose prosperity continues at the present day. Before proceeding to... | |
 | Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston - 1906 - 584 pages
...of blue and white. It is possible that no cotton goods were exported from Europe to West Africa till the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Since that time the cotton goods of Lancashire, of Germany, and of Barcelona have almost killed the... | |
 | Harry Johnston - Africa, West - 1906 - 748 pages
...of blue and white. It is possible that no cotton goods were exported from Europe to West Africa till the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Since that time the cotton goods of Lancashire, of Germany, and of Barcelona have almost killed the... | |
 | Maud Cruttwell - Art, Renaissance - 1907 - 410 pages
...alterations were made in all probability by the celebrated goldsmith Bernardo Holzmann, who was employed at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries in restoring the Reliquaries of S. Maria del Fiore and S. Giovanni. The present tabernacle to which... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Music - 1907 - 248 pages
...was accordingly not until then that important pieces for such keyed instruments began to be written. At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, however, we find interesting music for these instruments by composers of several nations. In France... | |
 | Reginald Welbury Jeffery - Canada - 1908 - 378 pages
...from home made the numerically inferior Canada in some respects superior to the Thirteen Colonies. At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, therefore, the French possessed great advantages over their southern rivals ; and the English, disunited... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1908 - 608 pages
...civil power even during a period of military predominance. Part II the nation. Englishmen, therefore, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, found themselves placed in this dilemma. With a standing army the country could not, they feared, escape... | |
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Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations. 
