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The Scottish Songs - Page liv
by Robert Chambers - 1829
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 4

John Aikin - 1803 - 646 pages
...GRANDI, FRANCIS-LEWIS, an Italian ab'bot, philosopher, and mathematician, who flourished in the latter end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, was born at Cremona, in the year 1671. As he early possessed a studious inclination, he determined to embrace...
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A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol ..., Volume 4

Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 552 pages
...to the medical properties of indigo, I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum. There was a time when the...
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Letters from an Absent Brother: Containing Some Account of the ..., Volume 2

Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 pages
...Cevennes Mountains, in the department of the Garde, remarkable as the retreat of the Protestants in the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, during the persecution of Louis XIV. Our host, when he had ended his own prayer, asked his new guest...
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The Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany, Volume 1

1828 - 710 pages
...tongue ; but the influence of the German language was too visible. This influence increased so much at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, that Swedish poets, as Columbus and Lars Johnson, preferred to write their verses in that dialect....
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The Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany, Volume 1

1828 - 706 pages
...tongue; but the influence of the German language was too visible. This influence increased so much at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, that Swedish poets, as Columbus and Lars Johnson, preferred to write their verses in that dialect....
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The Scottish Songs, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1829 - 356 pages
...that age. Sir Robert was obliged at that time to abscond, because he was a loyalist, as all of that and other families of that name have almost always...century, was the proximate cause of this invaluable publi10 cation. The time had now gone past when the modulations of sound and sentiment which nature...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 2

1829 - 514 pages
...knee !" ALLAN RAMSAY'S TEA-TABLE MISCELLAKT. " The impulse which bad been given to the public tarte for Scottish song and music about the end of the seventeenth,...time had now gone past when the modulations of sound anil sentiment which nature dictated to the simple swain, —-re esteemed as only fit to charm the...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 2

1829 - 516 pages
...!" AT.LAN RAMSAY'S TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY. " The impulse which had been given to the public taste fur Scottish song and music about the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, ivas the proximate cause of this invaluable publication. The time had now gone past when the modulations...
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The New Lancashire Gazetteer: Or, Topographical Dictionary, Containing an ...

Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1830 - 216 pages
...few or no capitals of £3000 or £4000, acquired by trade, existed here before 1690. However, towards the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the traders had certainly got money beforehand, and began to build modem brick houses in place of those...
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Lectures on Christian Theology, Volume 1

Georg Christian Knapp - 1831 - 566 pages
...principal cause, these opinions became very prevalent among the Swiss, and even Lutheran theologians, at the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century. In Switzerland, they were regarded as essential points of orthodoxy, and placed as such in the Formula...
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