Example sentences of "of the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay had taken her camera to photo the leather-bound treasures of the seventeenth century , where even the language was rounded in sepia sworls , respectful of rhythm , season , nature and wholeness . |
| 2 | From the point of view of those who have a high doctrine of the mind , the Cartesian developments of the seventeenth century were ambiguous . |
| 3 | Remembering that philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century had already assimilated thought to perception , this is not surprising . |
| 4 | In most of the seventeenth century Archbishops of Canterbury were ex-heads of Cambridge and Oxford colleges . |
| 5 | For example , the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was constituted not only by the new theories of Descartes , Galileo and Newton but also by new ways of experiencing the world , interacting with it and thinking about it . |
| 6 | A related point on which most ( but not all ) physical scientists ( or , more appropriately , natural philosophers ) of the seventeenth century would have agreed , was the primacy of mathematics in analysing the physical universe . |
| 7 | While the example of Kepler illustrates the influence of artistic practice on a ‘ scientist ’ ( which is not Kemp 's primary concern ) , discussion of this instance would have enhanced considerably the author 's argument that both the theory and practice of perspective were significant resources for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | However , it was obviously not deemed grand enough by the Moon of the manor at the beginning of the seventeenth century who built on the exquisite Renaissance porch in Purbeck limestone . |
| 9 | Although remote rural areas remained unaffected , by the middle of the seventeenth century the rebirth of classicism had begun to transform the face of England . |
| 10 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 11 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |
| 12 | The end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century was a tip-top time for English domestic architecture on this small scale . |
| 13 | It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | The works of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of the seventeenth century give the impression of confident invulnerability . |
| 15 | Moreover the effect of the statute , in preventing the separation between legal and equitable estates in the cases to which it applied , was nullified in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the decision of the Chancery to protect trusts declared upon the uses which the statute had turned into legal estates . |
| 16 | In the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth , fraud and accident — especially the accidental loss of a document — are regarded as matters peculiarly appropriate for relief in a Court of Equity — matters which a Common Law Court can not sufficiently deal with . |
| 17 | The Master of the Rolls , who is originally a very subordinate officer , with charge of the documents of the court , comes to be at the end of the seventeenth century a judge who can hear Equity cases , though there is an appeal from him to the Chancellor . |
| 18 | The equitable rules about penalties were , however , to a large extent already introduced into the Common Law Courts by statutes passed at the end of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | But then about the end of the seventeenth century Equity invented the separate use for married women . |
| 20 | In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Law Merchant , apart from maritime law and prize law ( see p. 40 ) , was absorbed into the Common Law ; thus the law of such matters as Bills of Exchange came to be part of the law of the land , and came to have a specially English character . |
| 21 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 22 | Now , in the words of the seventeenth century horticulturalist , John Parkinson , I leave it in corners ‘ so no place be unfurnished . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Orange songs ’ , a body of fine traditional music ignored by left-wing folklorists , usually celebrate Protestant victories of the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Up in the north , there was the occasional extreme Protestant rumble about the evils of that character ; but in general , the Britain of the seventeenth century was absorbed by more immediate concerns . |
| 25 | The end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century saw the publication of Buchanan 's works ( just after one of them , his treatise on Scottish political theory , De Iure Regni apud Scotos , had enjoyed the distinction of being burned , with Hobbes ' Leviathan , by the University of Oxford in 1683 ) ; to begin with , it was works particularly dealing with Mary , the Detectioun and the History of Scotland , which were published , and then in 1715 came Thomas Ruddiman 's Opera Omnia Georgii Buchanani . |
| 26 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | From my earliest days , my interest in the Old Masters has frequently led me to consult Hofstede de Groot 's A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century which includes the work of such household names as Rembrandt and Frans Hals , Johannes Vermeer and Jacob van Ruisdael among some 40 major Dutch artists . |
| 28 | It is certainly not the original Chiswick House , as a late Elizabethan , or Jacobean Mansion , with cultivated parkland , existed on the site since the early part of the seventeenth century , and possibly earlier . |
| 29 | Bad harvests between 1593 and 1597 were the prelude to the great fen drainage projects of the seventeenth century , at a time when England 's growing population was increasingly concentrated in urban or rural industrial centres which were not self-sufficient . |
| 30 | This cat-and-mouse game between engineers and the elements was to become a major theme in the next great age of wetland reclamation , which began under the Tudors and reached its climax in the middle of the seventeenth century . |