Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

The 17th-century cleric and philosopher Richard Cumberland wrote that promoting the well-being of our fellow humans is essential to the " pursuit of our own happiness.

A 17th-century Polish poet, Wespazjan Kochowski, wrote in 1674: " O good bread, when it is given to guests with salt and good will!

Praetorius wrote in a florid style, replete with long asides, polemics, and word-puzzles – all typical of 17th-century scholarly prose.

Within the Protestant tradition in England, Jane Leade, 17th-century Christian mystic, Universalist, and founder of the Philadelphian Society, wrote copious descriptions of her visions and dialogues with the " Virgin Sophia " who, she said, revealed to her the spiritual workings of the Universe.

An outstanding example of this literary form is the 17th-century Seyahâtnâme of Evliya Çelebi, the Turkish traveller who wrote in ten volumes, his travels starting in native city of Constantinople and covering Anatolia, Persia, Ottoman Europe, North Africa, Austria and Cairo.

One has to consider the fact, however, that Kotoshikhin wrote his work at the request of the Swedish government and that some of his opinions on Russian 17th-century realities are biased.

The derivation of the name of Twenty has been much speculated about but it seems fairly clear that it arose from its position where, in the mid-19th century, the North Fen Drove crossed the 17th-century Twenty Foot Drain.

The village is situated on Dowlish Brook, which is crossed by a 17th-century packhorse bridge ( widened in the 1990s ) and a road bridge dating from the 18th century.

It has a large church dating from the 15th century, an impressive City Hall ( built as such ) from the 16th century, several large 17th-century palaces, a 17th-century Protestant church built in what was then a modern style, and many important 18th-century buildings.

That configuration then became a standard feature of what we today call the “ classic ” 17th-century pattern.

His mother was descended from 17th-century Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam ( today New York City ) and had moved to Long Island and then to New Jersey.

Missouri French was spoken by the descendants of 17th-century French settlers in east central Missouri, then called Haute-Lousiane ( Upper Louisiana ), especially in the area of Ste.

As Deborah Harkness put it, " Others thought Flamel was the creation of 17th-century editors and publishers desperate to produce modern printed editions of supposedly ancient alchemical treatises then circulating in manuscript for an avid reading public.

The Puritan community in 17th-century North America looked down upon art, because they believed it drew the faithful away from God, and if away from God, then it could only lead to the devil.

Included in this 17th-century painting is a depiction of a dubious pregnancy test: a ribbon dipped in the patient's urine and then burned.

Merkuriusz Polski Ordynaryjny ( in the original 17th-century Polish spelling, Merkuryusz Polski Ordynaryiny ; full title: Merkuriusz Polski dzieje wszystkiego świata w sobie zamykający, dla informacji pospolitej ; " The Polish Mercury Ordinary ") was the first Polish newspaper, published in 1661, first in Kraków, then in Warsaw.

According to a 17th-century writer, James V had noticed the attractions of Mary when he went to France to meet Madeleine and Mary of Bourbon, and she was next in his affections.

Undeterred, according to the curious 17th-century antiquary John Aubrey ( author of the Brief Lives ), " in those days, when they went to bed they did rake up the fire, and make a X on the ashes, and pray to God and Saint Sythe to deliver them from fire, and from water, and from all misadventure.

Some scholars claim that the phrase originated in 17th-century slang, where a " dead horse " was work that was paid for in advance, e. g. " His land ' twas sold to pay his debts ; All went that way, for a dead horse, as one would say.

In 1863, he went to Germany and, in 1864, to Holland, studying works by 16th-and 17th-century painters in both places.

A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.

In 16th-and 17th-century Wales, an expansion in population as well as taxation policy led to a move of people into the Welsh countryside, where they squatted on common land.

The problem of discipline was made more difficult by the ad hoc nature of 17th-century military financing ; armies were expected to be largely self-funding, by means of loot taken or tribute extorted from the settlements where they operated.

In 1663, he became director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, where he laid the basis of academicism and became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.

As originally inspired in France at the Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte by the cook of the 17th-century sugar industrialist Marshal du Plessis-Praslin ( 1598 – 1675 ), early pralines were whole almonds individually coated in caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many nuts.

Louis le Nain was an important exponent of genre painting in 17th-century France, where the 18th century would bring a heightened interest in the depiction of everyday life, whether through the romanticized paintings of Watteau and Fragonard, or the careful realism of Chardin.

The graveyard is also where Roger Crab the 17th-century hermit is buried after living on a diet solely of herbs, roots, leaves, grass and water.

Written reports of rough fishways date to 17th-century France, where bundles of branches were used to create steps in steep channels to bypass obstructions.

The oldest visible parts of the building are the southernmost bay, where there is 17th-century brickwork and timber, and the chimney from the same period.

St Oswald's church lies close to the river a little North of the village, and the road up the dale crosses the river past Bridge End where Charles Kingsley stayed, and Old Cotes, built in 1650, whose gabled porch has a 3-light window somewhat characteristic of late 17th-century houses in this area of the dales.

The original 17th-century schoolroom where Penn was taught still stands, and is now the school library.

Finally a third, more plausible explanation claims that the tortellini reproduce the shape of a turtle in an effort to replicate the famous architectural features of Modena, where many 17th-century buildings allude to the turtle motif.

The glass most likely originated in 17th-century England where the glass was known also as a " Long Glass ", a " Cambridge Yard ( Glass )" and an " Ell Glass ".

The glass most likely originated in 17th-century England where the glass was known also as a " Long Glass ", a " Cambridge Yard ( Glass )" and an " Ell Glass ".

This culminates in a passage bringing together Laurence Binyon's dictum slowness is beauty, the San Ku, or three sages, figures from the Chou King who are responsible for the balance between heaven and earth, Jacques de Molay, the golden section, a room in the church of St. Hilaire, Poitiers built to that rule where one can stand without throwing a shadow, Mencius on natural phenomena, the 17th-century English mystic John Heydon ( who Pound remembered from his days working with Yeats ) and other images relating to the worship of light including "' MontSegur, sacred to Helios ".

The German Caspar David Friedrich had a distinctive style, influenced by his Danish training, where a distinct national style, drawing on the Dutch 17th-century example, had developed.

The term handicap derives from hand-in-cap, a popular 17th-century lottery game, where players placed their bets in a cap.

Gyldenløve took part in the 17th-century Dano-Swedish wars where he was particularly successful at the Battle of Nyborg on 14 November 1659.

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.

* Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Carmelo ( near the Courthouse ) built in 1931, which contains a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary.

Mexico City's 17th-century Basilica of Guadalupe -- built in honor of the Virgin and perhaps Mexico's most important religious building — was constructed at the base of the hill of Tepeyac, believed to be a site used for pre-Columbian worship of Tonantzin.

A well-preserved example of this is the Spitalbastei in Rothenburg or the bastions built as part of the 17th-century walls surrounding Derry, a city in Ulster in the north of Ireland ; however, at this stage the cities were still only protected by relatively thin walls which could offer little resistance to the cannons of the time.

Next on the left, is Tong Hall, a 17th-century manor house built in the late 17th century, and is part of the historic part of the area, replacing a much older building ( A capital messuage ( manor house ) is recorded in 1343 as part of the holdings of the Tong family, but destroyed by fire around 1700 )

Something of its 17th-century origins can be seen today in an inscription at the entrance gate to Bunhill Fields: This church-yard was inclosed with a brick wall at the sole charges of the City of London, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, Knt., Anno Domini 1665 ; and afterwards the gates thereof were built and finished in the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Knt., Anno Domini, 1666.

The Old Town Hall ( left ), built in 1877 and a 17th-century building ( right )

Until the end of the 19th century Bellingdon consisted of a number of scattered farms including Bank, Peppetts, Bellingdon End, Bloomfield, Huge, Hazeldean and Vale Farms which were built in late 16th or early 17th-century.

This was built around the core of an early 17th-century timber-framed building, and opened in 1770.

This 17th-century unfortified house was built about 1680 and was originally surrounded by a defensive bawn.

William Fulton Love, writer and bank agent in Beith, built Geilsland House and developed this small estate near Gateside in the 19th-century although the deeds go back to the 17th-century.

One of France's first examples of urban planning, it was mapped and built from end to end during the 17th-century reigns of Henri IV and Louis XIII.

Other 17th-century structures include the monks ' cells, a hospital topped with a tented church, and a chapel built over a holy well discovered in 1644.

Its exterior was inspired by the Renaissance-revival style Hôtel Pourtalès in Paris and its interior was modeled after the 17th-century Collegio dei Gesuiti ( now the Palazzo dell ’ Università ) built by the Balbi family for the Jesuits in Genoa.

The first Radisson Hotel was built in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1909, and was named after the 17th-century French explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson.

The 17th-century houses in Wing were built from stone quarried at nearby Barnack and Clipsham.

It also contains a plaque commemorating Jean Descaris, a 17th-century pioneer, and his descendant Alphonse Décarie, on whose land Vendôme and Villa-Maria metro stations were built.

Monuments include the Transfiguration Monastery, which includes a cathedral built in seventy days in 1198 and partly rebuilt in the 15th century, and several 17th-century buildings and churches.