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Sidelights on the Crisis in India: Being the Letters of an Indian Civilian ... - Page 26
by Henry Harcourt - 1924 - 117 pages
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New Method of Studying History: Recommending More Easy and Complete ...

Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy - 1728 - 742 pages
...the Empire, they deftroyed all Sciences and good Tafte, which began not to be re-eftabliftied till towards the End of the Fifteenth, or the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Had we but the Hiftory of Erafmus wrote by Jolt, Praecentor of the Cathedral of Paris, that would be...
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Letters on the Study and Use of Ancient and Modern History: Containing ...

John Bigland - 1806 - 548 pages
...that invention, and its various applications, were the work of a later period ; and it was not until the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century that fire-arms, of different sorts, were brought to what the moderns would call a tolerable degree...
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Sketches, Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford ...

1825 - 454 pages
...Sleaford has been annexed, if not regularly and legally united, for a very long period,—perhaps about the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, soon after Lord Hussey's attainder. The church is a small but neat structure, partly of Early English...
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Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of new and old Sleaford

James Creasey - 1825 - 452 pages
...Sleaford has been annexed, if not regularly and legally united, for a very long period, — perhaps about the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, soon after Lord Hussey's attainder. The church is a small but neat structure, partly of Early English...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...the death of Chaucer and the time of Surrey is the dramatic ballad of the NUTBHOWN MAID. Its date is the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century, — its author is unknown. This lovely and unclaimed story possesses a refinement and tenderness of...
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An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Astronomy: With Plates ...

John Narrien - 1833 - 548 pages
...about v, so as to produce the observed first and second inequalities of the motion in longitude. At the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century, the system of homocentric spheres ascribed to Eudoxus and Calippus was revived by Fra Castorius, with...
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An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians ..., Volume 2

Edward William Lane - 1836 - 450 pages
...become common in the Yem'en. It was imported into Egypt between the years 900 and 910 of the Flight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century of our era, or a little more than a century before the introduction of tobacco into the East), and...
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An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients; with a ...

John Hannett - 1837 - 254 pages
...to be stamped, but we shall not be far wrong in fixing the introduction of this embellishment about the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is evident the art was known in 1467, as David Casley, before referred to., describes the binding...
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A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages (etc.)

John Britton - 1838 - 456 pages
...the roof in an ornamental turret, supported by flying buttresses. It is supposed to have been built towards the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century. Leland, who was at Malmsbury, in the time of Henry VIII., says, " there is a right, faire, and costely...
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A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the ..., Volume 2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1838 - 742 pages
...flattened arch is of very uncommon occurrence, but I cannot assign to it a much earlier period than the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth, century — and that the subject sculptured, so far from being (as Pennant intimates) the interment of our...
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