...powers, was transformed by an ordinance of 1840 into the Town Council of Port of Spain. For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the cultivation of cocoa gave some good years to the colony; but about 1725 or 1727 a blight fell on...

...in the merchant service and in the navy. But it was the privateering system in vogue during the wars at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century which, more perhaps than any other cause, encouraged the growth of piracy. "Privateers in time of war,"...

...Pantheism is to be carefully distinguished from that great attempt to paganize Europe, which commenced at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. The new philosophpy springs, in a great degree, from other causes. As far as Pantheism results from...

...existence of a body of paid soldiers was necessary to the safety of the nation. Englishmen, therefore, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, found themselves placed in this dilemma. With a standing army the country could not, they thought,...

...speaking, in this place. But I may add, that some charming effects of colour were obtained in France at the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, by a method, which is known as marbling under the gold. The edges of the book are fanned out, right...

...speaking, in this place. But I may add, that some charming effects of colour were obtained in France at the end of the seventeenth, and the beginning of the eighteenth century, by a method, which is known as marbling under the gold. The edges of the book are fanned out, right...

...necessities of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might...

...necessities of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might...

...necessities of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it might...

...necessities of an agreeable narrative. But the patient industry of the French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, founded this new tradition; the magnificent genius of Gibbon showed how the observance of it ' might...