In the eighteenth century a member of the Irish Parliament published a book called The Case of Ireland Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated.
Before the eighteenth century was over the Presbyterian population of Ireland was reduced by at least a half; [Footnote: Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, II.
The justices of the peace were fair representatives of that great class of rural gentry which exercised so strong an influence over the destinies of England in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
With many Illustrations In this important work an attempt is made to trace the origin and development of all the chief phases of English Costume from prehistoric times down to the end of the eighteenth century.
In Massachusetts even during the eighteenth century the right of free political discussion was denied by the House of Representatives as well as by the royal governor, though often unsuccessfully.
The House of Commons was not, however, a popular body in the eighteenth century.
Our Constitution embodies the political philosophy of the eighteenth century, not that of to-day.
Individualism as an economic doctrine was advocated in the eighteenth century by those who believed in a larger measure of freedom for the industrial classes.
Tyranny in the eighteenth century was associated in the minds of the people with an undue extension or abuse of the powers exercised by the undemocratic central government.
A hundred years, it is true, have scarcely passed since the eighteenth century came to its end, but no hundred years in the history of the world has ever before hurried it along so far over new paths and into unknown fields.
The seventeenth and eighteenth century demand was not for the abolition, but for the limitation of irresponsible authority.
But back to this eighteenth century must we go to learn the forces, the national ideas, the political theories, under the domination of which the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
In the eighteenth century the majority was outside of the pale of political rights.
If the House of Commons had been a truly popular body in the eighteenth century, that fact would not of itself have made the English government as a whole popular in form.
This is the reason why conservative statesmen of the eighteenth century regarded the tendency towards party government as the greatest political evil of the time.
In the eighteenth century, after every great war a group of colonies fell into the hands of the victorious power.
Learn to be silent and obey, and not to discuss politics," ran the proclamation of a Mexican viceroy, near the end of the eighteenth century.
Here is a picture of terror from the middle of the eighteenth century.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, many exceptionally gifted foreigners drifted to Chile.
Besides, he knew the eighteenth century writers, Walpole, Junius, and even Voltaire being included by the catholic minded father.
There is much in this thoroughly original and delightful book which reminds us of the essays of the eighteenth century.
Those later days of the eighteenth century were the days of Dublin's glory, for then she was really, as well as sentimentally, the capital of Ireland.
That was the eighteenth day of April, 1689, and for fifteen weeks the town held out against a strict siege, which nothing could break.
Between these two abysses we seem to see Louis XVIII reckoning up the felicities of the eighteenth century, and the unhappiness of the nineteenth.
Here they are; but the last two maxims have been given us by an eclectic philosopher of the eighteenth century.
The writers of the eighteenth century have doubtless rendered immense services to society; but their philosophy, based as it is upon sensualism, has never penetrated any deeper than the human epidermis.
The older bridge of Queen Mary's time was angular, with square arches, as may be seen from a print of the early part of the eighteenth century.
The greater part of the original house was pulled down in the eighteenth century.
Though the house belongs to the Tudor period, many alterations were made early in the eighteenth century, but the little interior quadrangle remains much in its original condition.
The architects of the middle of the eighteenth century had no partiality for nooks and corners in the mansions they designed.
The ancient family of Bland have been seated here since the time of Elizabeth, the direct male line, however, dying out in the middle of the eighteenth century.
These were done away with towards the end of the eighteenth century, when a great part of the original building was demolished and the interior entirely reconstructed.
At the end of the eighteenth century France, wearied with privileges, desired at any price to shake off the torpor of her corporations, and restore the dignity of the laborer by conferring liberty upon him.
There is, indeed, after the middle of the eighteenth century, even an appearance of retrogression in the attention devoted to learned pursuits for women.
But the phrase "learned women" as used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had no such specialized application.
Such studies would be invaluable as a contribution to the history of the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century.
There were few more popular works in the eighteenth century than this translation.
And chief among her fopperies was her preciosity, a characteristic marked in most of the learned ladies represented in seventeenth and eighteenth century comedy.
The history of the part women took on the seventeenth and eighteenthcentury stage would make a volume of itself.
The play ran several nights and was seen occasionally on the stage until far down in the eighteenth century.
The use of "Mrs." for all reputable persons of the female sex, even children, prevailed during the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century.
In the eighteenth century embroidery and tapestry are still an occupation, but other and less tedious works partially supplant them.
Schools for young ladies increased in number during theeighteenth century, especially near London.
That Lucy Hutchinson had written a life of her husband was known by many people and there were frequent requests in the eighteenth century that so valuable a historical document should be made accessible to the public.
She was then in her eighteenth year, and had one child, a son, Josiah, who was three years old.
His history covers practically the whole of the eighteenth century, of which he was one of the most typical personalities, as he was certainly the most strenuous figure.
The expression "history of civilisation" appears before the end of the eighteenth century.
And there are still scholars who, like the Benedictines of the eighteenth century, look in the chancery-formulæ of a prince for information as to his piety or his liberality.
This is how the Protestant rationalists of the eighteenthcentury treated biblical narratives.
Of the palaces that are situated on the right bank of the Vltava, the most interesting is the Kinsky Palace, which was built in the eighteenth century according to the plans of the architect Luragho.
The only other palace on the right bank of the Vltava which I shall mention is that of the Count Clam-Gallas, a handsome building that also dates from the eighteenth century.
Rudolph erected statues of the Madonna and of St. John, and the others were gradually added, principally during the period of Catholic re-action in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Footnote 232: A freethinker and Freemason, in the latter half of the eighteenth century imprisoned, for a certain comedy, in Magdeburg fortress.
We are living now in the dark middle-ages of this Biography, and reading on toward the enlightened eighteenth century or Dog's-day.
In the eighteenth century people discussed diffusely the question whether Thales was an atheist (of course in the sense in which the word was taken at that time); comp.
On the mythological theories of the eighteenth century, comp.
Most of the mythology of the eighteenth century is like this.
From the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, on the other hand, the material is extraordinarily plentiful, though but slightly investigated.
At any rate Banier, who, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, treated ancient mythology from a Euhemeristic point of view, gave some consideration to it.
He observes that while English literature had declined towards the close of the eighteenth century, it rose again rapidly with the opening of the nineteenth century.
We can understand without difficulty why the eighteenth century was a period favourable to the growth of excellent letter-writing.
I think avenues were planted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A very similar process of agriculture existed until the eighteenthcentury in Scotland.
The present staves date from the eighteenth century, while the old ones[19] rest in honourable retirement at the University Galleries.
In the eighteenth century, when all old uses were upset, the Divinity School was even lent to the City as a law court, and it was here the unfortunate Miss Blandy was condemned to death.
Towards the beginning of the eighteenth century there stood on a rock in the sea, near a fishing village on the coast of Brittany, a ruined Tower with a very bad reputation.
Like all the educated writing of the eighteenth century, too, it is phrased with a rhythmical balance and urbane polish which give it claim to literary distinction.
In the eighteenth century the names of Derome, Roger Payne, and others are prominent as masters of the craft, and the Harleian style was introduced.
We must now |xviii| pass on to Roger Payne, that unfortunate and erring man but clever workman, who lived during the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Grant by headright continued immediately to account for the great majority of land patents issued, but after the first quarter of the eighteenth century it gradually fell into disuse.
Rather the distribution of land by the "treasury right" was employed in the seventeenth as well as the eighteenth century.
It was not until the eighteenth century that public antipathy toward the proprietors was for the most part dispelled and that demands on the Northern Neck land offices increased to equal other areas in Virginia.
But beginning with the grant for Brent Town in 1687, the seating requirement was omitted and this precedent was followed for all subsequent proprietary grants in the Northern Neck in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Thus during the terminal year of this study, we find the significant reappearance of sale of land by "treasury right" which increased in importance as the eighteenthcentury progressed.
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