...the merchant service and in the navy. But it was the privateering system in vogue during the wars at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century which, more perhaps than any other cause, encouraged the growth of piracy. "Privateers in time of war,"...

...a century after the death of the Reformer, the high position in which he had left them. But towards the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, a lamentable change took place. Benedict Pictet, whose " Theologie Christienne" is well known in this...

...(published in 1798), i. 22.) JTS ATWOOD, WILLIAM, a constitutional writer and political controversialist of the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. He had been chief justice of New York, but at what time is not distinctly known. The first work attributed...

...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...

...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...

...grand sense — painting in its alliance with architecture — was much in fashion in England towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century j but though practised on a large scale, it was anything but a grand scale. How much more of real taste...

...As 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...

...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 * The Rev. George Smith. See his Funeral Sermon, by Dr. S. Chandler. In many striking...

...THIS name, or that of Richard Burton, appears in the title-pages of several curious volumes published about the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century by a bookseller of the name of Nathaniel Crouch. In the Bodleian Catalogue they are marked as being...

...penalty attached to sacrilege.* But very small traces of the edifice remain. GAP RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. AT the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century a variety of private associations were formed among the more earnest members of the Church, with the...