Not only did Landseer rival some of the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century in painting fur and feathers, but he depicted animals with sympathy, as if he believed that "the dumb, driven cattle" possess souls.
The early pictorial art of England has been so neglected or forgotten, that it is commonly said to have commenced with the portrait painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenthday of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
The Roman Catholics, more enthusiastic than discreet, committed wholesale outrages on our harmless ways of faith in the early days of the seventeenth century, which did much to leave in bad repute the creed of Jesus Christ.
This is one of a group of pears which in the seventeenthcentury were designated by various pomologists with names such as Blanquet a longue queue, Blanquet d'hiver, etc.
Mentioned by Charles Estienne in 1540, and other French authorities of the seventeenth century.
An old French pear known in the seventeenth century as the Saffran d'Hyver.
An ancient dessert pear mentioned by Claude Saint-Etienne in theseventeenth century and by Mawe and Abercrombie in their Universal Gardener and Botanist in 1778.
Shown at the seventeenth annual exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in September, 1845, by the President of the Society.
His lordship lived at Newhailes--the property of one of the Dalrymple family, several members of which were eminent judges in the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries--and travelled to town by rail.
These old-time judges with their rugged ferocity, corruption, and occasionally brave words and deeds, in a great measure present to us now a miniature history of Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Already in the early part of the seventeenth century Spain showed signs of decay.
The closing years of the seventeenthcentury witnessed the beginning of the struggle between France and England for empire in North America.
The people of New England were, on the whole, prosperous about the middle of the seventeenth century.
They were also put under the protection of great landholders, who treated them as serfs, although not exacting continuous labor, so that during the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies the condition of the Indians did not greatly improve.
But after the first king of the XVIIIth Dynasty, Aahmes, in the seventeenth century B.
Nor did the seventeenth century produce any marked change in the situation as regards the literature of world history.
In the seventeenth year of the reign of Nabonidus, Cyrus came out of Persia with a great army, and, having conquered all the rest of Asia, advanced hastily into the country of Babylonia.
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they had them in almost all the churches, that the officiating clergyman might be able to measure the length of his sermon.
One mirror was that famous seventeenthcentury possession of Marie de Medici, a looking-glass set in a frame which represented a fortune of over thirty thousand dollars.
They direct their flight northwards to the French settlements (it is late seventeenth or early eighteenth century throughout), and of course fall in love with each other.
It had played, as we saw, a great part in the novels of the seventeenth century; but it had for the most part merely "got in the way" of its companion ingredients and in its own.
As the seventeenth century wore on and we enter upon the early years of the eighteenth century--the days of Queen Anne--the chintz-printers became more prosperous.
Beeching of Ashburnham, in the late seventeenth century.
The typical sideboard of the seventeenth century only varies slightly in form according to the part of the country from which it comes.
There are several vague references to the subject in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but none of them disclose any solid information.
Such a sideboard belongs to the middle period of the seventeenth century, and is representative of a wide class used in farmhouses.
The shifting phases of the restless seventeenth century make it exceedingly difficult, in spite of experts, to decide definitely as to the exact date of furniture.
It appears, however, that in the seventeenth century there was a gradual immigration of foreign workmen of Dutch and French nationalities who were well versed in the art of cotton-printing--then well established upon the Continent.
The love of old country furniture of the seventeenth century is hardly an acquired taste.
It is small in size and belongs to the first half of the seventeenth century.
To the lover of old oak, varied in character and essentially English in its practical realisation of the exact needs of its users, the seventeenth century provides an exceptionally fine field.
Coffee was introduced slightly earlier, and many invectives in broadsides and in poetical satires appear in the late seventeenth century against coffee and coffee-houses.
It is quite possible that in his attempt to invent something more convenient than the heavy square dining-table the progressive cabinet-maker of the middle seventeenth century did strike the half-way form.
Let us start another gas company and tear up all our pavements again to lay its mains.
Take for a third example two railway lines doing business between the same points.
It was on the seventeenth of March of that year that he there formally delivered a sealed document, which he declared to be his signed will, in the presence of a notary, Gaspar Testa, and seven other witnesses.
Its contents were made to serve in the religious and political controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Las Casas was cited as a witness both against his Church and his country.
I have a small cylindrical bottle, white and ultramarine, which illustrates the matter as well as a dearer example, and shews the pains which the Chinese took to prepare their paste and pigments during the best period--the seventeenth century.
I was fortunate enough to enter on the scene, when in numerous respects his shelves were very deficient, and when some of the leading poets of the seventeenth century were conspicuous by their absence.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Albert belonged to Concini, the favourite minister of Marie de Medicis, but after his downfall in 1619 it became the property of Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, who gave it his name.
On the other hand, the seventeenth century, multi-coloured marble reredos of the high and Virgin altars were not severely damaged.
This sumptuous château was built in the seventeenth century by the de Luynes family, for whose benefit Chaulnes was raised to the rank of a duchy-peerage in 1621.
They were old worn coins, most of them, many dating from the seventeenth century, and bearing the effigies of successive kings of Spain.
There is no doubt in my mind that in the great buccaneering days of the seventeenth century, and probably much later, the place was the haunt of pirates.
And in this I find him exercising the same consistent instinct of good sense and sincerity, the same art of development, the same seventeenth and eighteenth century principles of classic rhetoric that he applies to his music.
Footnote 201: We must also note that during the first half of the seventeenth century people of taste objected to the very theatrical declamation of French opera.
I can never play the recitative con espressione e semplice of the seventeenth sonata for the piano (Op.
This society, which the Prince himself conducted in his own house, set itself to perform the vocal works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Alexander Guilmant and André Pirro brought to daylight the works of our seventeenth and eighteenth century organists.
Do not let us seek it anywhere but in the decorative art of the plain-song singers, in the architectural art of the age of Palestrina, and in the expressive art of the great Italians of the seventeenth century.
There are germs of morbidity in Germany to-day, a frenzy of pride, a belief in self, and a scorn for others that recalls France in the seventeenth century.
After singing Palestrinian and Gregorian chants at the Church of Saint-Gervais during Holy Week, they played Carissimi, Schütz, and the Italian and German masters of the seventeenth century.
He only gets out of the difficulty by the most extraordinary compromises, by saying that Ghirlandajo and Filippo Lippi were Gothic, or by stating that the Renaissance in music did not begin till the seventeenth century!
Unquestionably, the real inventor of the mysterious tree was Christopher Pinchbeck, who was England's leading mechanical genius at the close of the seventeenthcentury and the beginning of the eighteenth.
Early in theseventeenth century appeared "Hocus Pocus," the most widely copied book in the literature of magic.
A friendly assistant at the Museum showed us another German sign dating from the end of the seventeenth century, charmingly carved and gilded, representing the workshop of a shoemaker.
A charming little French rhyme from the beginning of the seventeenth century introduces us to such a cage-tavern:-- "Mademoiselle Louizon Demeurant cher Alizon Justement au cinquieme etage Pres du cabaret de la Cage.
In the old times the streets were not yet numbered, as Macaulay tells us, not even at the end of the seventeenth century.
In the seventeenth century England abounded with excellent inns of every rank.
For, shortly after her seventeenth birthday, Maggie Oliphant met a girl whose beauty and brilliance were equal to her own, whose nature was stronger and who had been carefully trained in heart and mind while Maggie had been neglected.
Some time between her sixteenth and seventeenth birthday that awakening came which altered the whole course of her life.
Fenelon, a celebrated French clergyman and writer of theseventeenth century, discouraged the acquisition of knowledge by women.
In England, as late as the seventeenth century, husbands of decent station were not ashamed to beat their wives.
During the middle of the seventeenth century, the famous English corsair, Henry Morgan, afterwards Governor of Jamaica, paid his respects to several Cuban cities, including Puerto Principe.
Back in the seventeenth century French traders and privateers made frequent visits to Cuba, and some of them found Cuban wives, whose descendants afterward became citizens of the country.
By the beginning of the seventeenth century the leading authorities were basing their defence of industrial interest on positive grounds.
Later on, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, risk and scarcity were given considerable prominence as value determinants.
Since the end of the seventeenth century the Church has quite generally permitted interest on one or more extrinsic grounds, or "titles.
Andrews Clark Memorial Library The Society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventeenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
