...thorough-bred the pedigree, where deficient, is lost in the obscurity which veils the racing annals of the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries ; but the presumption fairly is, that as horses of foreign blood had shewn an immense superiority it...

...been superseded by that of Alberti. From the dates of his publications, it appears that he lived in the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. VENETIAN SCHOOL. (See Italian Art, and Painting.) VENEZUELA; a republic of South America, bounded north...

...held them in the highest estimation ; and in all works which treat of the history of Europe during the latter part of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, constant * The Memoirs terminate with the death of the Regent Orleans, in 1720; the tuthor lived thirty-four...

...of his death can be ascertained ; but from the dates of his publications it appears that he lived in the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. — Biog. Univ. VENEZ! A NO. The name of two eminent artists, assigned to them on account of the country...

...held them in the highest estimation ; and in all works which treat of the history of Europe during the latter part of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, constant * The Memoirs terminate with the death of the Regent Orleans, in 1720 ; the author lived thirty-four...

...been superseded by that of Alberti. From the dates of his publications, it appears that he lived in the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. VENEREAL DISEASE. (See Syphilis.) VENEZUELA ; a republic of South America, bounded north and east by...

...effectually repaired by a series of arches ; a work the just admiration of travellers. ' Here, during the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, numerous accidents happened, some of which, in his pleasant way, he relates : — ' I have often heard,'...

...ВПЭ отзк "-i blNtí' |3)> a native of Pomisla, a small town near Prague in Bohemia, lived during the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. He was chief of the synagogue of Nicholasburg, then of Prague, and finally of Frankfort on the Main,...

...small accession by occasional emigrants from Holland. The Huguenot and German Palatine emigrants, in the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, were greatly assimilated to the Dutch residents, by their common religious faith and the sympathy derived...

...sectarian.' The sectarian controversies which agitated the Province in the times of the Mathers, during the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and which reached the Corporation and the College, left the latter on the liberal side, notwithstanding...