...kiss fair ladies' brows, Being black, pal us in mind, they hide the fair," but also other authors of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, tell as, that especially ladies used to wear such masks, lined with white taffeta, when they went out....

...raise them again, especially with regard to their trade. Now the general conviction in Germany, towards the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, agreed in this, that the German industry, which had already sunk to so low an ebb, must be entirely...

...frontier, which had been considerably harassed by Indian incursions. We may here pause to mention, that at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the American coast, and particularly Carolina, was dreadfully infested by piracy. The long war between...

...kiss fair ladies' brows, Being black, put us in mind, they hide the fair," bat also other authors of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, tell us, that especially ladies used to wear such masks, lined with white taffeta, when they went out....

...condition of the towns, especially as to manufactures. It was the universal conviction in Germany, towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, that the very depressed manufacturing industry of Germany must be utterly destroyed unless some active...

...condition of the towns, especially as to manufactures. It was the universal conviction in Germany, towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, that the very depressed manufacturing industry of Germany must be utterly destroyed unless some active...

...natural and copious applications, they remind me of the sermons of our good old English Preachers, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Indeed, those great masters of the Pulpit were favourite authors with Mr. Aspland. Without being their...

...frontier, which had been considerably harassed by Indian incursions. We may here pause to mention, that at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the American coast, and particularly Carolina, was dreadfully infested by piracy. The long war between...

...the consumption of the colonists ; but the most important mines of Siberia were not discovered until the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the mining operations were carried on with very little success until Eeter the Great, with that...

...that of many other useful human inventions, has been a chequered one. When first brought into use at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century extravagant expectations were formed of its value — expectations which were almost justified by the...