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" Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries : that people are the riches of a nation. The passage in which this... "
A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature tr. [from Ueber ... - Page 313
by August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840
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The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 11

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 11

1838 - 542 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous dunng the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 11-12

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...been the theatre of great events. Such historical^ travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical...
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The penny cyclopędia [ed. by G. Long]., Volume 11

Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, Volume 2

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1840 - 424 pages
...In short the views and demands with which poets are often oppressed by a prosaical 314 LECTURES ON public are personified in the most ingenious and amusing...the first period of the English theatre is the only cue of importance. The plays of the least known writers of that time, (I venture to affirm this, though...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 74

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...exclusive regard to the forms of artificial and conventional life, of which the poetry of the latter half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century is so deplorably full. Admirable satire was the very highest order of poetry which such materials could...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1846 - 554 pages
...perceive between them something about the same relation as between the paintings of the school of Michel Angelo and those of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth THE PURITANS TOE STAGE CLOSED. 4?S century. Both are tainted with manner; but the manner of the former...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...asks, 1 Whether Roaer may come and milk my cows. Mum ! ' " There are several other fashionable words of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century to be found in these glossaries, and some expletives which are happily modified now, in sound as well...
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Tercentenary Monument: In Commemoration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary ...

Reformed Church in the United States. General Convention - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1863 - 670 pages
...rather from a new phase of the same principle — toward the destruction of a churchly cultus. Through the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries run two parallel tendencies : pietism with its unsteady subjective zeal for practical personal...
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Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 104 pages
...conception, and he had been forced to wear the garb and mien of a low jester and buffoon. The perverted taste of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries seemed to be unequal to the true appreciation of this grand and gloomy creation of the poet....
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