| Many eighteenth-century manuals on gauging treated barrels as solids generated by rotating conic sections about their axes. |
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| A good example is the typical late eighteenth-century verge watch attached to a nineteenth-century chatelaine. |
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| Additional references, anecdotes and stories about the custom of bundling are drawn from eighteenth-century America. |
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| It depends on, and perpetuates, an eighteenth-century liberal ideal of autonomy, individualism and unencumbered choice. |
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| Bohls's comments on the eighteenth-century georgic are important and provide links to earlier essays in the volume. |
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| In seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe, royalty collected the extremely tall and extremely short in the form of court giants or dwarfs. |
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| Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art. |
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| These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others. |
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| The chart holds the key to the location of the wreck of an eighteenth-century brigantine. |
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| He wore one of those ruffled shirts that Alora associated with artists in eighteenth-century France. |
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| It is elegant in appearance, and exactly designed after early eighteenth-century German models. |
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| If there is one style of furniture that conjures up eighteenth-century Venice it is imitation lacquer. |
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| England's Regency style was a natural outgrowth of the neoclassical style that prevailed in eighteenth-century Europe. |
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| No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations. |
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| Indeed not every eighteenth-century American supported slavery, and some political radicals were extremely critical of the practice. |
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| There was no one cultural system that embraced the kaleidoscopic character of eighteenth-century Britain. |
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| A hallmark of the eighteenth-century is the poet's concern with the affairs of the Gaelic nobility. |
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| In spite of the wealth of monographs on aspects of eighteenth-century Paris, few historians have offered a synthetic treatment of that city. |
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| A reproduction of an eighteenth-century wine press can be seen at Colonial Williamsburg. |
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| The humour may be quintessentially eighteenth-century, but, representationally, these sheets not only look back to Mantegna but forward to Degas. |
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| In addition, forceps delivery was not the preferred method of many male surgeons or men-midwives in eighteenth-century Britain. |
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| The urban laboring man's realistic view of what was possible was shaped by the nature of eighteenth-century America. |
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| The splendid scagliola columns are repaired and polished to their eighteenth-century condition. |
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| All that remains of the eighteenth-century Italian garden are three terraces with geometric topiary shrubs. |
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| Thus, by this time, her taste for the historicism of the beaux arts school and the arts of eighteenth-century France was well established. |
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| Their opposition to slavery is borne out in Richard Popkin's studies of eighteenth-century racism. |
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| Her silk damask off-the-shoulder dress possibly suggests a later eighteenth-century date. |
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| Nevertheless, eighteenth-century writers did not conceptualize human diversity in rigidly hereditarian or strictly physical terms. |
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| An eighteenth-century version of this bun was scented with caraway, a habit that seemed to slip away over the next 100 years or so. |
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| The reform movement that emerged in Canada owed an intellectual debt to the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment. |
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| The authors, breaking with the intuitionism that had dominated eighteenth-century French treatises, updated the logic of geometry manuals. |
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| Such characters emerged in late eighteenth-century plays and sheet music, and became mainstays of nineteenth-century minstrelsy. |
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| I left the Dartmouth archive saturated with a sense of the tenuousness of Mohegan life in eighteenth-century New England. |
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| Nor was eighteenth-century society as lax in its sexual morality as the Victorians often supposed. |
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| There is a wrought-iron ring on the top, so that it could be hung on a wall, and the backboards are held together with eighteenth-century sprigs. |
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| He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic. |
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| Louisbourg women usually contracted their first marriages at less than 20, a couple of years earlier than eighteenth-century Canadian women. |
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| Alexander Geddes was an eighteenth-century Scottish orthoepist and dialectologist. |
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| This housed his Flemish, Dutch and French seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, as well as the major Boucher portraits of his sister. |
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| The lives of many French North American habitants were disrupted by eighteenth-century geopolitical changes, but none more than the Acadians. |
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| Another late eighteenth-century palampore was generously donated recently. |
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| The late eighteenth-century game of high-stakes poker, which the Revolution and Napoleon had turned into Russian roulette, gave way to contract bridge. |
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| Depending on their taste and pocketbooks, eighteenth-century Americans could use punch bowls made in a variety of materials other than ceramics and glass. |
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| When it is revived at the end of the eighteenth-century by the English Della Cruscan poets, the tradition gains a new life in the orbit of the romantic movement. |
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| This ode to education is also reminiscent of the glorification of American education by eighteenth-century male American autobiographers like Benjamin Franklin. |
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| Includes images of Cotton Vitellius A. XV, indispensable eighteenth-century transcriptions, copies of the 1815 first edition, and a comprehensive glossarial index. |
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| Where they did survive, many great eighteenth-century grottoes gradually slid into ruin, like the parks in which they stood or the houses they once served. |
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| On this originally mediaeval country estate there is an eighteenth-century country house, where the lord of the manor stayed. |
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| In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares. |
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| In the far corner of this view of the hall is a rare late eighteenth-century corner table, probably from Rhode Island, inlaid with exuberant bellflowers on the legs. |
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| A few Chinese may have visited Vancouver Island during the late eighteenth-century trans-Pacific fur trade but the first Chinese to stay were lured by the Fraser River gold rush. |
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| I still fail to grasp how the sight of ancient Cretans dressed as bewigged eighteenth-century courtiers brings us closer to Mozart's noble opera seria, but never mind. |
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| Andreas Gestrich and Carola Wessel detail the variant experiences of Herrnhuters in eighteenth-century Russia and the upper Ohio Valley, respectively. |
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| Seen from the standpoint of ordinary people, the essential theme of the the eighteenth-century experience was not so much achievement as the fragility and chanciness of life. |
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| Perhaps the most diagnostic type is the clasp knife that is frequently found on eighteenth-century French sites throughout interior North America. |
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| Their language contrasted with that of the eighteenth-century reformers who had entrusted the mission of modernity and progress to enlightened rulers. |
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| One is an eighteenth-century hornbook, a common device for teaching the alphabet and numbers, but exceptional in this case because it is made of silver. |
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| I'm sure that two slightly dodgy copies of eighteenth-century portraits and casts of busts of Sir Walter and Napoleon would be quite safe in my keeping. |
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| However, I have since found two eighteenth-century accounts of traveling between Aleppo and Damascus by English travelers, who both report staying at a khan in Qutaifah. |
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| Chemical fertilizers were unavailable, for eighteenth-century scientists knew too little about plant physiology to devise the right chemical composition. |
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| Because of their lowly social status and outspoken behavior, the reputation of laundresses in late eighteenth-century Spain was problematic at best. |
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| In fact, some artists and designers in eighteenth-century Rome not only imitated the ancients but actually incorporated antique elements into their own works. |
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| The eighteenth-century wrought-iron andirons are from New England. |
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| He sought out rare and out-of-print books from antiquarian booksellers, including a set of delightful eighteenth-century guidebooks by the York publisher Thomas Gent. |
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| Particularly notable are an early nineteenth-century Windsor armchair with an elaborate fretwork back and a rare early eighteenth-century silver tankard. |
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| Italian, and specifically Venetian, eighteenth-century decorative arts were increasingly popular at this time, advocated by Wharton and other tastemakers. |
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| This project has provided an insight into the history and construction of the secretaire and the working practices of a top eighteenth-century craftsman. |
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| The standards of the eighteenth-century clockmaker were no longer an expensive skill, but part of the conventional wisdom of mechanical engineering. |
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| On the contrary much of what is taken to be so distinctive about the Victorians can be traced back to eighteenth-century developments that have featured in this volume. |
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| Classicism was, after all, based on a historic culture, and late eighteenth-century radicals were to find sustenance in the myths of Saxon freedom and the Norman yoke. |
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| The sweet sound of the Northumbrian pipes, playing folk tunes which would have been familiar to eighteenth-century audiences, greeted us as we climbed the stairs. |
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| Those eighteenth-century women were our mothers. |
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| Cappers suggests that such concerns were similar to the more general eighteenth-century fear of being buried alive. |
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| This precisionist criticism is, however, typical, and the eighteenth-century archives are full of similar scolding. |
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| In eighteenth-century japan, writers scolded wives for adopting the fashions and manners of prostitutes, and young men for carelessly dissipating all the wealth their fathers had slaved to earn. |
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| Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse. |
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| Stahl argued that phlogiston could explain combustion, a central concern of eighteenth-century chemistry. |
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| The Old Port, where is the Fort of Santa Tecla, eighteenth-century work of Genoa, leading to the tourist port sun, on whose beach Morgana Victory Baths are an example of rationalist architecture. |
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| The immense room was carpeted, the walls were covered with eighteenth-century panelling, and three electric lustres hung from the ceiling. |
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| His fantasy-like Contradanza is based on the eighteenth-century Cuban collective dance of the same name whose ancestor was the populist English country dance. |
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| The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing. |
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| Entranced, at one point, by the charmingly simple lyrics of eighteenth-century operas, he wrote a number of poems so delicately attenuated, so stripped of descriptiveness, that they seem to have no referent at all. |
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| In 1963, the main theme of Salgueiro was Chica da Silva, the eighteenth-century freedwoman from Minas Gerais. |
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| The show at MOMA features two huge, beautiful, wallpaperish forest landscapes in white ink on black, which suggest negative offprints of eighteenth-century rococo designs. |
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| Murcia Cathedral and the church of Santiago de Jumilla are examples of Gothic buildings were incorporated throughout the centuries changes in different styles to the eighteenth-century neoclassicism. |
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| But the definitive eighteenth-century novels all absolutize the move of inclusion and so declare themselves able to include any actual or conceivable textual type. |
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| And the thin muslin that made up his angarkha came all the way from Dacca in Bengal, which was the most famous centre of muslin weaving in the eighteenth-century world. |
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| Alemah in Arabic means a learned woman. It was the name given to women in conservative eighteenth-century Egyptian society who were accomplished reciters of poetry. |
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| We can see such ideas as having root in eighteenth-century notions of the noble, self-sufficient peasant, in Romanticism, and in English radical agrarianism. |
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| The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker. |
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| One may wish to examine the lives of women in patriarchal eighteenth-century society compared to the role of women in matrilineal Mohawk Societies. |
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