Gypsy life must have been in England during the latter part of the seventeenth, and the whole of the eighteenth century, which were likewise the happy days for Englishmen in general ; there was peace and plenty in the land, a contented population, and... The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. - Page 140by Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840Full view - About this book
| 1840 - 526 pages
...colour often hold the place of higher qualities. . Pietro Berettini daCortona(b. 1596, d. 16C9)laid the foundation of that empty mannerism in Italian...eighteenth century. Opposed to the Eclectic schools wore those masters who seem to have imagined that a true imitation of nature consisted in appropriating... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 566 pages
...arguments and authority. Aristotle s philosophy accordingly fell into undeserved neglect during tho latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century : of buyears, however, the true worth of his writings has Ь"-а more fully appreciated, and the study... | |
| 1840 - 540 pages
...cold colour often hold the place of higher qualities. Pietro BeicttinidaCortonatb. IJ9G, d. IG6U)laid the foundation of that empty mannerism in Italian...those masters who seem to have imagined that a true initiation of nature consisted in appropriating to every and any subject the first forms which came... | |
| George Borrow - Romani language - 1843 - 386 pages
...scarcely conceive any human condition more enviable than Gypsy life must have been in England during the latter part of the seventeenth, and the whole of the eighteenth century, which were likewise the happy days for Englishmen in general; there was peace and plenty in the land,... | |
| Scotland - 1845 - 846 pages
...the 6th November 1711; and died on the 7th August 1733 in the seventy-third year of his age.* During the latter part of the seventeenth, and the whole of the eighteenth centuries, the Grammar School of Dalkeith attained very high celebrity. It was numerously attended... | |
| Church architecture - 1845 - 354 pages
...nature very strong ; that it was so, this paper will attempt to prove. In those truly dark centuries, the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth, this love was all but extinct. Witness the taste which laid out the gardens, and formed the plantations,... | |
| J. D. Morell - Philosophy, Modern - 1847 - 632 pages
...successors, to the latter belong all the philosophers of the rationalistic school, who flourished during the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth centuries. It is, then, with Cartesianism as a whole, not simply as a method, that we have now to do... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...collected into one volume by Touson in 1719. His reputation as a poet, great in his own day, low during Signs centuries, has latterly in some degree revived. In its days of abasement, critics spoke of his harsh... | |
| Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 584 pages
...school of individual consciousness arose the pantheistical, sceptical, and material speculators of the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century. These displayed themselves both on the Continent and in Great Britain. Their disquisitions were generally... | |
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