| On reviewing the epoch-making events of the eighteenth century, we find a condition of affairs startling in its abnormity. |
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| Yet when fox-hunting was considered a sport, from its inception in the eighteenth century, it was far from an amateurish or cost-free pursuit. |
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| Britain in the eighteenth century developed a culture of credit and commerce, based on trust and reputation. |
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| I came in from the sides like a well drilled eighteenth century army attacking some fortified town in the Low Countries. |
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| English creamware, or so-called Queen's China, punch bowls were imported in large numbers during the latter half of the eighteenth century. |
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| If the landscaping of the country house was at the cutting edge of garden design in the eighteenth century, the urban park was its successor. |
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| Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century. |
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| The second was the Cossack period, lasting from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century. |
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| By the early eighteenth century Siberia was conquered thanks to private efforts of merchants, Cossacks and other free people. |
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| In particular he had a fine collection of eighteenth century paintings, and a collection of Chinese porcelain. |
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| In the eighteenth century, most North American consumers purchased French, Flemish, Brussels or English lace imported by local merchants. |
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| The great ironmasters of the eighteenth century controlled integrated companies involving all these industries over widespread areas. |
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| Both forms of contredanse were performed in France until the Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. |
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| In some judicial courts in the early eighteenth century, attorneys had to kneel while university-educated advocates pleaded at the bar. |
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| These accounts are valuable for contemporary historians of those regions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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| During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, consumption was considered incurable by most people, patients and physicians alike. |
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| The audio-track covers the history of Burlington House with interludes of music dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| Americans dreamed of opening the interior of their continent with canals as early as the eighteenth century. |
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| By the eighteenth century, masculine chastity was closely connected with one's respectability and membership among the middling sorts. |
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| Slavery was an institutional given in ancient times, and continued to be that in almost the entire world through the eighteenth century. |
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| It was used as an inn or tavern in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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| As the eighteenth century began to end, however, the sense of inexhaustibility of the forest, at least temperate forests began to disappear. |
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| By the later eighteenth century, Johann Caspar Lavater insisted on profile silhouettes as the most stable means of representing physiognomies. |
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| During the eighteenth century, Command Papers were printed as appendices to the House of Commons Journal. |
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| The privatisation of cultural expressions corresponds to the enclosure of public land in the fifteenth to eighteenth century. |
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| In the early eighteenth century, Ludvig Holberg wrote in a variety of forms, including satire and comedy. |
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| The Jansenist Nouvelles was one of the most remarkable publishing phenomena of the eighteenth century. |
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| The West Riding of Yorkshire in the late eighteenth century was ill-famed for its robust and independent plebeian culture. |
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| Until roughly the beginning of the eighteenth century, the illegitimacy ratio was 4 percent or less. |
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| Unfortunately, pop still lived in the eighteenth century where men still wore penguin suits and women wore corsets. |
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| In the eighteenth century the goal of mission was seen primarily as conversion from idolatry and religious perversion. |
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| During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the most important crops were coffee and cloves and then sugarcane. |
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| Many of those rights found legal expression at the close of the eighteenth century. |
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| In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, English hoys plied a trade between London and the north Kent coast. |
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| The last decades of the eighteenth century saw the establishment in the United States of Swedenborgian congregations. |
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| In the eighteenth century, the Phanariotes were appointed hospodars, or princes, of the Romanian provinces Moldavia and Wallachia. |
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| Even newborn babies were not washed, and until the eighteenth century they were swaddled in bands of cloth that were changed twice a day at most. |
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| In the eighteenth century, wooden barrels were assembled out of individual staves and hoops, with no two barrels being identical. |
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| This portrait of Banks as a policy supremo is an important contribution to our understanding of Britain's later eighteenth century. |
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| Discovered at the end of the eighteenth century, lithography allows artists to make painterly expressive marks. |
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| The first Hondurans came to the USA in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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| Indeed, ranching seemed to have invaded Chickasaw society as the eighteenth century ended. |
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| During the second half of the eighteenth century, the ubiquitous storage trunks began to be replaced by wardrobes and chests of drawers. |
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| The average farm had poultry, pigs, and livestock, used oxen as draught animals, and would, in the eighteenth century, acquire horses. |
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| The concept was originated by William Smith, a surveyor, in the latter part of the eighteenth century. |
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| Yet casuistry was always controversial, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became thoroughly discredited. |
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| In its orthography, German gives an initial capital letter to its nouns, a practice common in English until the mid eighteenth century. |
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| It is known, however, that the carillon of the cathedral was said to have played it in the eighteenth century. |
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| His great international stature remained unchallenged throughout the eighteenth century. |
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| By the end of the eighteenth century the damage was obvious to many observers. |
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| We only stock good, completely original staddle stones from the eighteenth century and earlier. |
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| A cultural revival in the eighteenth century was reinforced by the spread of Nonconformity, which became an integral part of Welsh identity. |
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| The defining dates of the style generally span the last decades of the eighteenth century through the first quarter of the nineteenth century. |
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| Even in the eighteenth century, when he had lost all power, the Mughal emperor was seen as the natural sovereign of Hindustan. |
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| Two contrasting modes and metaphorisations of taste occur in a Songhay village, and in eighteenth century England. |
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| The eighteenth century saw Georgian and neo-Gothic architecture, which continued into the nineteenth century when neo-Classical styles arose. |
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| Of the many forms of needlework practiced in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one firmly rooted here is rug hooking. |
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| The basic game of three card brag was one of the games described by Hoyle, and therefore dates from the late eighteenth century or earlier. |
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| The rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century created a demand for more pictures. |
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| The rue Mouffetard was the main street of the bourg of St. Me dard, which until the eighteenth century lay outside the city of Paris. |
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| Despite a good start to the season, they have slumped to eighteenth in the division with McAllister fully aware he has no money to spend. |
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| Mouchoirs were produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to commemorate notable and royal events. |
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| The Moravians flourished during the eighteenth century, establishing settlements across Europe and the colonies. |
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| Religion was important to German immigrants and the lack of ministers attracted Moravian missionaries in the early eighteenth century. |
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| Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith. |
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| In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was universally believed that rum, gin, and brandy were nutritious and healthful. |
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| As Dickens perceived it, the root cause of the French Revolution lay in an abuse of monarchic and aristocratic power in the eighteenth century. |
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| Much of the fashion is museum quality eighteenth and nineteenth century costumes, including trunkfuls of grand Russian court ball gowns. |
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| The girls' schools which proliferated in the eighteenth century were well attuned to the social needs of the upwardly mobile. |
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| It was Will's eighteenth birthday and he was spending the day with his friends and me. |
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| All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet. |
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| In the eighteenth century the outlook of some groups in the upper and middle classes began to evolve in a new direction. |
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| She said that the canal had to be dug with pick and shovel with hundreds of men employed before its opening in the mid eighteenth century. |
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| Through the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scholars argued relentlessly about the details of Egyptian and Chinese chronology. |
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| A sennight had passed, bringing with it the conclusion of the princess trials and her eighteenth birthday. |
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| The gilding and frills of the eighteenth century were stripped away in favor of the natural beauty of materials and shapes. |
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| In fact, the word ' suicide ' replaced ' self-murder ' only in the eighteenth century. |
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| The society of orders had its defenders throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. |
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| Early eighteenth century baroque composer Vivaldi was a trained priest who had music in his heart. |
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| This is the only publication of Richard Roach's exceptional visionary theosophic work since the rare originals in the eighteenth century. |
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| Sweden was the primary power in the Baltic region for more than a hundred years, until challenged by Russia in the eighteenth century. |
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| The only departure from this order occurs in an appendix on military ballooning during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| The room was decorated with fine eighteenth century art, sculptures and busts of previous political figures. |
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| During the eighteenth century, instability became a feature of government with ministers dismissed by the score. |
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| Here her analysis is most surefooted as she discusses late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, Benedict's professional bailiwick. |
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| In France special prison bagnios were constructed in the eighteenth century at Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, and Lorient. |
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| A period of classicism in the eighteenth century saw the development of political and social satire, comedy, and romanticism. |
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| As was the case with black African slaves, by the end of the eighteenth century wealthy households in Britain employed Indian servants and ayahs. |
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| In the eighteenth century, many Rajput states came under control of Marathas and, by the early nineteenth century, the British. |
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| On one side, next to an eighteenth century Indo-Portuguese tallboy, stood a superb tall Satsuma vase. |
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| With his rouged cheeks and talcumed face, he resembled a genial eighteenth century wind-up doll waving welcome with choppy strokes. |
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| But in the eighteenth century, despite loud protests from the privileged urban guilds, the trickle became a flood. |
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| And taste is now a far weaker, more assailable notion than it was in the late eighteenth century. |
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| By the end of the eighteenth century, a Turkish tribe called the Qajars ruled the area now known as Iran. |
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| In the eighteenth century lorgnettes and quizzing glasses became elegant accessories of upper-class dress and fashion began to influence design. |
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| Certainly, as British imperial influence spread round the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so too did British aesthetics. |
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| As in Europe and the United States, armorial porcelain was commissioned in China for the Mexican market in the late eighteenth century. |
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| When the General Baptist Churches in England became Arian in the eighteenth century it was not long before they began to die. |
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| If we turn to the faithful OED, the word is said to date back to the eighteenth century and was used by the great literates of Swift and Dickens. |
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| Collectors and antiquarians were largely responsible for the vogue for collecting antiquities that took root in the eighteenth century. |
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| Most of Ireland missed out on the first industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century. |
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| In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Latin was still the international language of scholarship. |
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| The Caribbean was a nest of pirates until cleaned up in the eighteenth century. |
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| During the eighteenth century fashionable accessories became an important complement to a lady's attire. |
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| In late eighteenth and nineteenth century Bengal, the worship of Durga acquired meanings other than devotion as well. |
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| By the early eighteenth century, American varieties of English, extraterritorial immigrant koines, began to emerge in several regions. |
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| Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the breeding of livestock was dramatically changed by Robert Bakewell, an English agriculturist. |
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| Despite its wars, Britain prospered mightily during the eighteenth century. |
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| From unassuming beginnings in the 1760s, Wesleyan Methodists had achieved many successes in America by the close of the eighteenth century. |
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| The introduction of the ackee and the mango at the end of the eighteenth century did help to reduce this vitamin A deficiency. |
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| From 1575 to the start of the eighteenth century, mining waxed and waned throughout the Andes. |
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| In the eighteenth century the Protestant Irish relatively easily became acculturated and socially accepted. |
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| Up until the late eighteenth century, washing was usually restricted to the hands and the face. |
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| By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles. |
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| The traditional folk dance, the quadrille, dates back to eighteenth century European settlers. |
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| The discussion that follows will focus on the subsistence economy of the Ijo in the Niger Delta between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries of the common era. |
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| Regardless of whether the scene is set in the seventeenth, eighteenth, or early nineteenth century prosperity and abundance are constants in these images. |
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| Most chemists were not concerned with this detail because during the first half of the eighteenth century chemistry was not concerned with quantitative analysis. |
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| The British in the eighteenth century, moreover, expelled the French Acadians from Nova Scotia, and seeded the area with Loyalists shipped down east from Massachusetts. |
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| The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska. |
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| A deep, fenestrated entryway in the neoclassical style was added at some point in the eighteenth century, and its corners are quoined like the comers of the house. |
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| The judges for the prestigious competition, now in its eighteenth year, also hailed the family's dairy operation as near perfection as you could ever get. |
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| Small A-frame houses, Russian orthodox churches, and many new wooden buildings went up as Russians settled the area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| Afrikaans, the language spoken by Afrikaners, evolved as a dialect of Dutch spoken by settlers on the frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| On the contrary, the best-known stockbreeder of the eighteenth century made a point of obscuring the descent of his prized bulls, rams, boars, and stallions. |
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| By the early eighteenth century, operatic juxtapositions came to be seen as part of a standard order of representation, weakening the original shock-effect of the genre. |
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| Given in Paris the eighteenth day of December in the year of grace one thousand six hundred and three, and of our reign the fifteenth, thus signed Henry. |
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| The words are also haunted by Dickens's fear of a reprise of a violent social revolution akin to that experienced in France in the last decade of the eighteenth century. |
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| I can't rebuild my apartment on the fifth floor while you keep your apartment on the eighteenth floor just as it is. |
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| William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination. |
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| In the eighteenth century madness was seen as either animalism, best controlled by harsh restraint, or as imbalances in bodily humours, treated by bleeding. |
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| The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood. |
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| The ship was named for an infamous pirate from the eighteenth century. |
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| In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac. |
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| Towns were also cultural centres, the largest of which, by the second half of the eighteenth century, possessed theatres, masonic lodges, reading clubs, and newspapers. |
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| Its vast increase in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its routinization in the eighteenth occurred in tandem with the growth of the state and the economy. |
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| Britons, both at home and in the American colonies, enjoyed a newfound way to express themselves with fashionable tableware during the eighteenth century. |
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| If rip-roaring eighteenth century epics are your thing, you will probably love this book, stuffed as it is with salty character and fulsome event. |
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| Of course, much is made of the U.K.'s free press but for much of its life it has been, especially in the eighteenth century, little more than a collection of scandal sheets. |
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| Belief in the truth that the creation is God's handiwork generated the scientific progress that began not in the eighteenth century but in medieval scholasticism. |
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| In the eighteenth century the great naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne, paid a man to shoot blackbirds by the score every spring to protect his fruit trees. |
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| During the eighteenth century, the great French seigneurs also revivified their ancient feudal rights to levy tolls on trade passing through their domains. |
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| By the late eighteenth century, Western Europeans were increasingly emphasizing marriage as a love-match between two self-determining individuals. |
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| For example, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Liverpool area vied with London as the most important production centre for precision timekeepers. |
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| The view that trade was the engine of economic growth was a central tenet of mercantilism, the European economic orthodoxy in the first half of the eighteenth century. |
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| In the eighteenth century, it was inhabited by tinsmiths from the Auvergne, masons from the Limousin, stonecutters from Normandy and woodworkers from Savoy. |
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| Although foreigners frequently denoted many smaller summer palaces as seraglios, in the early eighteenth century the terminology was usually associated with Topkapi Palace. |
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| From the eighteenth century legal doubt existed whether the religion established in England was also legally established in colonies settled by British subjects. |
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| Chester is a town with significant histories stretching from Roman times, through medieval England, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and now these millennial times. |
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| By the end of the eighteenth century, liberal theology transformed traditional doctrines into statements that are metaphors for a general human relation to the transcendent. |
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| It is now a hotel which its owner, Francisco Pons Montanari, a Menorcan of Italian descent, has virtually turned into a shrine to the Royal Navy in the eighteenth century. |
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| Early in the eighteenth century the Tuscarora, another Iroquoian-speaking tribe living in North Carolina, moved into the territory occupied by the Confederacy. |
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| In spite of its arbitrariness, that hypothesis had a singular fortune, for it dominated Western thought in one form or another almost until the eighteenth century. |
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| Ever since the modern study of art history began in the eighteenth century, there has been a variety of more or less unconvincing answers to that question. |
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| Nonetheless, although full-scale popular uprisings ended under Louis XIV, there were important undercurrents of popular protest throughout the eighteenth century. |
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| In the photo, Sherman stands, dressed in an elaborate embroidered velvet frock coat and vest from the late eighteenth century. |
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| Although Bohemian glass decorators were certainly present in London around the dawn of the eighteenth century, the locals were already carving their own path. |
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| Before the Modern Age, the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and the logging of major forests, slash-and-burn cultivation was widely used in Europe. |
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| Through much of the eighteenth century, muntins, the thin bars that divide panes of glass in a window sash, were relatively shallow in proportion to their depth. |
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| Evolutionary and naturalistic theories of the earth's creation based on uniformitarian assumptions and advocating old-earth theories emerged in the late eighteenth century. |
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| If in the early eighteenth century snuffboxes were little known to the Russians, as the century progressed they made and bought them in notably larger numbers. |
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| Usually of a pale green or grey-green nephrite, they are worked to a high standard and are generally dated to the eighteenth century largely on stylistic grounds. |
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| The earliest netsuke were carved in Osaka and Kyoto, but in the late eighteenth century many were made in Edo and in other sophisticated regions of Japan. |
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| The parlor has a modern Brussels carpet, woven in England to a design of the late eighteenth century, while the furniture is of the period but not of the house. |
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| Roy's chief area of expertise remained the eighteenth century, at once the primary focus of his specialist studies and his greatest historical love. |
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| In the second half of the eighteenth century, a significant share of rural households in southern England suffered non-trivial declines in real income. |
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| In the middle decades of the eighteenth century a group of Swiss Jesuits labored in the Southwest of the present United States to promote the northward expansion of New Spain. |
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| By the beginning of the eighteenth century the British and the Dutch East India companies were delivering over a million pieces of Indian calico to Europe. |
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| The latter half of the eighteenth century turns the workman who was once a handicraftsman helped by tools, and next a part of a machine, into a tender of machines. |
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| Five different harpsichords were used, one an original eighteenth century instrument by Pascal Taskin, the others copies constructed specifically for the recordings. |
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| But what most of you may not know is that the mad hatter is based on a true story involving the hat makers in eighteenth century London who went mad from their lead hats. |
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| By the late eighteenth century his sons John and Simeon Jr. were recognized as the preeminent ship, architectural, and figural carvers in the region. |
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| The first instance of steam adapted to propel ships dates to the late eighteenth century in France, where small boats with side-mounted paddle wheels were tested on rivers. |
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| These two palampores with an almost identical central palm tree and bamboo designs have very different borders, and date to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. |
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| In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it provided by far the greatest number of posts open to architects in the form of surveyorships and clerkships of the works. |
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| By the middle of the eighteenth century, though, these long-held beliefs were beginning to be called into question, and the European deists were the primary inquisitors. |
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| There is no doubt that the country house faced a crisis in the twentieth century that has no parallel, at least in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| The syndic of the Estates reported to Versailles in 1783 that parlementaires set a bad example, paying their taxes eighteenth months, and sometimes even two years late. |
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| As a sport, running is the present day version of 'pedestrianism', which originated in eighteenth century Britain and came to Australia in the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| Surface mining began in the United States in the late eighteenth century, when farmers and others dug coal from exposed coal seams on hillsides and stream banks. |
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| Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate. |
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| In the mid eighteenth century a severe illness called the Devonshire colic was traced to lead poisoning from the metal used to seal holes in mills and presses. |
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| The fastigium was altered in the early eighteenth century by the substitution of panels of ornamental motifs for porphyry panels in the smaller squares. |
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| There were no terms in the Renaissance for what, since the eighteenth century, have been construed as essential signs in the body of incommensurable difference. |
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| This stabilized the ownership of communal property, which in the late eighteenth century made up about 10 per cent of all land in northern France. |
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| The cherry chest-on-frame, 1740-1760, comes from Connecticut, while the flanking pair of maple fiddleback chairs was made in the Hudson River valley in the eighteenth century. |
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| The French sugar planters made out so well that their biggest town, Cap Haitien, was reckoned one of the richest places in the world in the eighteenth century. |
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| The Caracas cacao trade to Europe in the early eighteenth century was an Atlantic enterprise, involving a complex web of legal and illegal intercolonial relationships. |
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| It has also been revived in Cornwall as the name for an equivalent assembly there as part of the rediscovery of Cornish, which died out in the eighteenth century. |
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| The display includes waistcoats, bodices, skirts, part of an eighteenth century dress made of beautiful blue silk with posies of flowers woven into it. |
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| In the 1820s Bath, Bristol, Dublin, and Edinburgh, cities which had flourished in the eighteenth century, were all still raising classical squares, streets, and crescents. |
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| Before the eighteenth century, it was thought, in Sweden, that sea levels were falling. |
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| Historically they were very inefficient but major advances were made in the eighteenth century. |
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| Various other attempts were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to add verses to commemorate particular royal or national events. |
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| Most parliaments in the remainder of the eighteenth century did indeed last for six or seven years, with only two lasting for a shorter time. |
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| Interest in Norse mythology was revived in the eighteenth century, and scholars turned their attention to it in the early nineteenth century. |
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| The position and rights of Scottish peers in relation to the House of Lords remained unclear during most of the eighteenth century. |
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| In the early eighteenth century, they managed to take over the office of King, which they held for at least the rest of the century. |
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| German emigration to the Americas totalled 200,000 people during the eighteenth century. |
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| In the eighteenth century only isolated or small groups of German emigrants left for Latin America. |
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| The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a fragmentation of the Church of Scotland that had been created in the Reformation. |
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| I could see that Hemingway, confident that he would be dormy one, was a good deal shaken at coming to the eighteenth all square. |
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| The arrival of Europeans from the late eighteenth century undermined the power of both chief and tohunga. |
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| The ocean was often called the Sea of Magellan in his honor until the eighteenth century. |
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| Sperm whaling in the eighteenth century began with small sloops carrying only one or two whaleboats. |
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| Among the most prominent political theorists of the late eighteenth century were William Blackstone, John Locke, and Montesquieu. |
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| There was a playwright by that name in the early eighteenth century, but there are no ties to piracy found in his works. |
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| In Istanbul he recovered from a spin that left him in eighteenth place to take second position in the final corners. |
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| The earliest depictions of black speech came from works written in the eighteenth century, primarily by white authors. |
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| Prior to the early eighteenth century, hunting was mostly by indigenous Indonesians. |
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| Evidence of its first use as a public bath was in the late eighteenth century. |
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| Pirates of the early eighteenth century and prior wore much the same clothing as any sailors. |
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| Utilitarianism as a distinct ethical position only emerged in the eighteenth century. |
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| Ranks that were found on ordinary vessels of the seventeenth, and eighteenth century were found on pirate ships. |
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| British sensibilities have played an influential role in world clothing since the eighteenth century. |
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| This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century. |
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| Both Manchu and Chinese were the official languages of the Qing court and both continued to be official languages into the eighteenth century. |
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| Wedgewood was known to have used marketing techniques such as direct mail, travelling salesmen and catalogues in the eighteenth century. |
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| The game was very popular in Glamorgan between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before losing in popularity to rugby football. |
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| This outlook needs to be seen within the historical context of eighteenth century Scotland. |
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| Before the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Europeans mostly were interested in expanding trade links. |
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| The pirates of the early eighteenth century, however, were men who acted on their own apart from official political sanction. |
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| From the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, the maritime history of Europe had a profound impact on the rest of the world. |
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| By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Lowlands and four universities. |
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| Tidore long remained an independent state, albeit with growing Dutch interference, until the late eighteenth century. |
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| In the late eighteenth century the crown devoted some resources to the study and remedy the problem of poor roads. |
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| A similar practice in French cathedrals, called machicotage, is documented from 1391 through at least the eighteenth century. |
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| Impromptu performances of song and swimming were given by local celebrity William Cussans in the eighteenth century. |
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| Under these waters and near this stone stood Hafod Fadog, a farmstead where in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Quakers met for worship. |
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| The eighteenth and nineteenth century saw the resurgence of national ideologies. |
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| They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century. |
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| Melton pies became popular among fox hunters in the area in the late eighteenth century. |
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| When war with the Burmese broke out in late eighteenth century, provinces easily abandoned the capital. |
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| The early eighteenth century was also a period of innovation in Gaelic vernacular poetry. |
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| The belief in divine kingship prevailed into the eighteenth century, although by that time its religious implications had limited impact. |
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| In the eighteenth century, Ayutthaya gradually lost control over its provinces. |
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| But the war affected Mauritius much less than the wars of the eighteenth century. |
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| All the colonies along the Guiana coast were converted to profitable sugar plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| These interconnected commercial and diplomatic relations made up the Western Caribbean Zone which was in place in the early eighteenth century. |
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| However, since the eighteenth century there has been a sustained effort to write in Haitian Creole. |
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| Few, if any, instruments by the great violin makers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries survive in anything like their original state. |
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| European colonists often died young due to tropical fevers, as well as from violent slave resistance in the late eighteenth century. |
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| Besides England, the Netherlands were, under Calvinist leadership, the freest country in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| The real engine for the growth of Cuba's commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was the Haitian Revolution. |
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| For much of the eighteenth century, France approached its wars in the same way. |
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| It is interesting to note that a treatise on Astrology was penned in Urdu by Pandit Roop Chand Joshi in the eighteenth century. |
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| I was telling them only the other day about pregnant women avoiding the Drop in the eighteenth century by pleading the belly. |
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| The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical. |
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| Since the mid eighteenth century, Great Britain has gone through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation. |
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| In East Cowes Norris Castle was designed in the Norman style by James Wyatt in the late eighteenth century. |
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| In fact, he did not approach her as a suitor until on or near her eighteenth birthday. |
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| It is only since the late eighteenth century that people have visited the mountain for pleasure or recreation. |
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| During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, narratives of sea captains and pirate adventures took many forms. |
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| Latin was not replaced completely, but remained an international language until the eighteenth century. |
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| They remained an oral tradition until they were collected as folk songs in the eighteenth century. |
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| It had several breweries and a flint glassworks in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| In the eighteenth century Scotland reaped the intellectual benefits of this system. |
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| In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the sailors on slave ships were often badly paid and subject to brutal discipline. |
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| In the eighteenth century, Russia and Prussia became the leading powers over the sea. |
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| The merchants dealing in this lucrative business became the wealthy tobacco lords, who dominated the city for most of the eighteenth century. |
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| From the eighteenth century onwards, the Sovereign made his or her choices upon the advice of the Government. |
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| It appeared, in the eighteenth century, as universal and immutable as human nature. |
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| Logistical organization of eighteenth century armies was chaotic at best, and the British Army was no exception. |
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| But Blumenbach, in the company of many other eighteenth century monogenists, also pointed to the transient and environmentally caused nature of such differences. |
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| The islands of Chagos Archipelago were charted by Vasco da Gama in the early sixteenth century, then claimed in the eighteenth century by France as a possession of Mauritius. |
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| In the first decades of the eighteenth century, many problems concerning the probability of certain events, given specified conditions, were solved. |
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| Here he adopts a broad racial typology that was formulated in the eighteenth century by the eminent Swedish botanist and typologist Carl Linnaeus. |
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| Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| The Ottoman economy greatly expanded during the Early Modern Period, with particularly high growth rates during first half of the eighteenth century. |
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| The empire continued to maintain a flexible and strong economy, society, and military throughout the seventeenth and much of the eighteenth century. |
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| The World Health Organization, in 2000, ranked the provision of healthcare in the United Kingdom as fifteenth best in Europe and eighteenth in the world. |
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| Many of the ideas and phrases that Moore points to as parallels, and therefore as proof of Defoe's continuity in his works, were commonplace in the eighteenth century. |
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| A sailor could make roughly one to one and a half thousand dollars in current pay, which back in the eighteenth century was a fairly large sum of money for a single trip. |
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| Pirates are often equated in the modern mind with privateers and buccaneers, but neither label accurately describes piracy during the early eighteenth century. |
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| The city is situated on the River Great Ouse, which was a significant means of transport until the fens were drained and Ely ceased to be an island in the eighteenth century. |
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| Despite periods of intense hunting during the eighteenth century, wolves never disappeared in the western Balkans, from Albania to the former Yugoslavia. |
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| In the late eighteenth century this was at least 60 feet, but from the 1790s this was decreased to 40 feet, and later 30 feet as the normal maximum width. |
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| Denmark prospered greatly in the last decades of the eighteenth century due to its neutral status allowing it to trade with both sides in the many contemporary wars. |
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| From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold misleadingly under the name tutenag. |
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| It will certainly become a flag under which great victories were won in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but to most minds the sentimental loss will be great. |
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| It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that migration as an explanation for the winter disappearance of birds from northern climes was accepted. |
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| The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry. |
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| The Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a natural development of this earlier engagement and advancement of knowledge. |
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| Fox hunting developed further in the eighteenth century when Hugo Meynell developed breeds of hound and horse to address the new geography of rural England. |
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| A few authors from the eighteenth century are included, but there is no entry for, say, encyclopaedists Denis Diderot and his colleague D'Alembert. |
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| A remote ancestor was a Father Nicholas Sheehy, framed and hanged for whiteboyism in the late eighteenth century in what amounted to an exercise in judicial murder. |
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| It was soon realised that Highlanders made excellent troops and a number of regiments were raised from the Highlands over the second half of the eighteenth century. |
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| From the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, American writers used both spellings interchangeably until the introduction of newspaper style guides. |
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| The end of the early modern period is usually also associated with the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the mid eighteenth century. |
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| Plumb's discussion of toys and the rise of new attitudes toward children in eighteenth century England explicitly confronts the development of such antinomies. |
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| It was still being sold in the early twentieth century and was probably the most widely reprinted book on a medical subject in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. |
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| Weavers were to be envied at the end of the eighteenth century for weaving had developed into Scotland's first industry, the counterpart of the woolen industry in England. |
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| Alterations were made to these in the course of the eighteenth century. |
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| In modern history, the end of the early period falls in the late eighteenth century, as an Age of Revolutions dawns, beginning with those in North America and France. |
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| Among the names which were employed there in the eighteenth century were James Law, Peter Ewart, William Brunton, Isaac Perrins, William Murdoch, and John Southern. |
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| Europe became increasingly protectionist during the eighteenth century. |
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| Ricardians, as the king's latter-day adherents are called, have a long and sometimes distinguished lineage stretching back to Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century. |
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| In the year of the Lord's incarnation 756, king Eadberht in the eighteenth year of his reign, and Unust, king of Picts led armies to the town of Dumbarton. |
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| Campaign furniture specially designed for naval officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is being exhibited at Christopher Clarke Antiques. |
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