 | Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...those mysterious assemblies. If the order of Freemasons did not then receive its birth, that is to say about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century, it received at that time new modifications at least, and became more extensive. No documents have yet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...be produced to prove, that one Shakspeare, a player, resided in St. Saviour's parish, Southwark, at the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth, century ; this evidence will not be conclusive proof of the settled residence of Shakspeare : For it is a fact... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 570 pages
...it appears much more probable that this invention had its rise in the Netherlands or Germany, either about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century. The oldestaccount with which I am acquainted, seems to be in favour of Germany, and the sixteenth century.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...be produced to prove that one Shakspeare, a player, resided in St. Saviour's parish, Southwark, at the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth, century; this evidence will not be conclusive proof of the settled residence of Shakspeare : For it is a fact... | |
 | James Henderson - Brazil - 1821 - 608 pages
...and St. Pedro, are supposed to hate been given when it was first annexed to the crown lands. ^''" "' About the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth cefatiiry, some Vincentistas removed their establishments to the vicinity of la'ke Dos Patos, and their... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Argentina - 1825 - 374 pages
...II. granted extensive lands in the territory denominated St. Gabriel, adjacent to the Plata. Towards the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, some Vincentistas (inhabitants of St. Vincente) first removed to the vicinity of the Lagoa dos Patos... | |
 | 1825 - 382 pages
...II. granted extensive lands in the territory denominated St. Gabriel, adjacent to the Plata. Towards the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, some Vincentistas (inhabitants of St. Vincente) first removed to the vicinity of the Lagoa dos Patos... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Astronomy - 1831 - 710 pages
...plants, in metals, even in woods, that to seek alarms the feeble, but to possess constitutes the mighty.' About the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, Tycho Brahe made a series of correct and numerous observations on the motion of the planets, which... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Scotland - 1833 - 392 pages
...possession of the family of its present owner in the reign of Charles II,* and appears to be of the latter end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is obviously the work of an ignorant, and often careless transcriber ; whose frequent mistakes, in... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 1833 - 378 pages
...possession of the family of its present owner in the reign of Charles II,* and appears to be of the latter end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is obviously the work of an ignorant, and often careless transcriber ; whose frequent mistakes, in... | |
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Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the... 
