The native dynasty of the Mings which attempted re-nationalisation in the middle of the fifteenth century was harassed by internal troubles, and China again fell under the alien rule of the Manchus in the seventeenth century.
The use of the steeped tea of the later China is comparatively recent among us, being only known since the middle of the seventeenth century.
The adoration of the flower for its own sake begins with the rise of "Flower-Masters," toward the middle of the seventeenth century.
In the seventeenth century, after the strict formalism of the Tokugawa rule had been developed, it offered the only opportunity possible for the free communion of artistic spirits.
To the Whigs of the seventeenth century we owe it that we have a House of Commons.
Consequently, through the whole ofthe seventeenth century, the freedom of Ireland and the slavery of England meant the same thing.
On the seventeenth of April, 1833, the House of Commons resolved itself into a Committee to consider of the civil disabilities of the Jews.
Thus Plutarch tells us that Osiris was murdered on the seventeenthof the month Athyr, and that the Egyptians accordingly observed mournful rites for four days from the seventeenth of Athyr.
This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr, when the sun is in the sign of the Scorpion, and in the eight-and-twentieth year of the reign or the life of Osiris.
In the Erzgebirge the following custom was annually observed at Shrovetide about the beginning of the seventeenth century.
In the seventeenth century a succession of bad seasons excited a revolt among the Esthonian peasantry, who traced the origin of the evil to a watermill, which put a stream to some inconvenience by checking its flow.
When some Virginians at the end of the seventeenth century, petitioned the government to build a college for the training of ministers, they were told to forget about the cure of souls and instead to cure tobacco.
In the seventeenth century, while the British colonies were being established in North America and their slave system was being created, the English Crown underwent a series of severe shocks including two revolutions.
About nine hundred thousand were brought in the sixteenth century, three million in the seventeenth century, seven million in the eighteenth century, and another four million in the nineteenth century.
The other was the Tarikh al-Sudan, the chronicle of the Western Sudan, written by Abd al-Rahman as-Sadi about the beginning of the seventeenth century.
If it had any existence before it appeared in the Earl of Cromartie's manuscript of the seventeenth century, it must have been written during the lives of the witnesses whose names attest it.
The first notice of the reputed charter to Colin Fitzgerald is in the manuscript history of the Mackenzies, by George, first Earl of Cromartie, already quoted, written about the middle of the seventeenth century.
On the evening of the seventeenth of December the Earl was called into the royal closet.
The power of those bodies has during many ages been great; but it was at the height during the latter part of the seventeenth century.
But, even before the middle of the seventeenth century, the Society, proud of its services and confident in its strength, had become impatient of the yoke.
Every man who now enters Parliament possesses what, in the seventeenth century, would have been called a great stock of parliamentary knowledge.
A friar, returning from the East, brought the recipe to Europe somewhat before the middle of the seventeenth century.
Delilah took the wisdom of the seventeenth century in her arms, and departed on her errand.
A murdered heretic at the beginning of the seventeenth century, a hero of knowledge in the nineteenth,--I drink to the memory of the roasted crank, Giordano Bruno!
So I will proceed at once to the real point at issue, the value of the late eighteenth-century costume over that worn in the second quarter of the seventeenth: the relative merits, that is, of the principles contained in each.
Whom now it seems good that we should get transferred to our new Paris Court of the Seventeenth; which proceeds far quicker.
One would hope, this Tribunal of the Seventeenth is swifter than most.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
He was totally unconnected with the Roman Catholic party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient to mark him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the seventeenth century.
Historians will tell you how, as early as the beginning of the seventeenth century, Henry IV.
It will be seen, from what I have said, that I consider the Ancien Regime to begin inthe seventeenth century.
It is worth notice, that not only are the majority of these names English, but that they belong not to the latter but to the former half of the eighteenth century; and indeed, to the latter half of the seventeenth.
Our work here, at the end of the nineteenth century, is the direct result of his, at the beginning of the seventeenth.
The "House in the Wood" was built early in the seventeenth century by a princess of the house of Orange, the grandmother of William III of England.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the seventeenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
