In the final decade of his life, he also wrote conduct manuals, including Religious Courtship ( 1722 ), The Complete English Tradesman ( 1726 ) and The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ).

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins ; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti, and the Mendelssohn 1731 Stradivari violas ; the Piatti 1700 Goffriller, the Stanlein 1707 Stradivari, and the Ladenburg 1736 Stradivari cellos ; and the Grobert of Mirecourt 1820 ( guitar ).

However, Britain and Spain were often at war during this period, fighting one another in the War of the Quadruple Alliance ( 1718 – 20 ), the Blockade of Porto Bello ( 1726 ) and the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1727 – 1729 ).

The town was once part of Mendon, from 1667 to 1726, and part of Uxbridge, from 1727 to 1772.

Rameau's three collections appeared in 1706, 1724 and 1726 or 1727, respectively.

James Peter Wolfe was born in the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 ( New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style ) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel ( later Lieutenant General ) Edward Wolfe, a veteran soldier of Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.

On the first occasion which offered itself, that of Pulteney's rupture with Walpole in 1726, he endeavoured to organize an opposition in conjunction with the former and Wyndham ; and in 1727, began his celebrated series of letters to the Craftsman, attacking the Walpoles, signed " an Occasional Writer ".

Pennies were minted in 1716, 1718, 1720, 1723, 1725, 1726, and 1727.

George I's guinea coins were struck in all years between 1714 and 1727, with the elephant and castle sometimes appearing in 1721, 1722, and 1726.

Since Pithou's edition in 1596 Phaedrus has been often edited and translated ; among the editions may be mentioned those of Burmann ( 1718 and 1727 ), Richard Bentley ( 1726 ), Schwabe ( 1806 ), Berger de Xivrey ( 1830 ), Johann Caspar von Orelli ( 1832 ), Franz Eyssenhardt ( 1867 ), L. Müller ( 1877 ), Rica ( 1885 ), and above all that of Louis Havet ( Paris, 1895 ).

), Marie de Lesseps ( 1717 – 1722 ), Arnaud de Lesseps ( 1719 – 1726 ), Jean-Barthélémy de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1795 ), Marcel de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1730 ), Jean-Pierre de Lesseps ( 1721 – 1721 ), Catherine de Lesseps, Gracy de Lesseps ( 1725 – 1791 ), Plaisance de Lesseps ( 1727 – 1735 ), Michel de Lesseps ( 1729 – 1801 ), married in 1769 to Florence Verdier ( 1739 – 1822 ) ( parents of Louise Thérèse de Lesseps ( 1770 – 1866 ), married in 1788 to Mathieu Belland ( 1764 – 1817 )), Martin de Lesseps ( 1730 – 1807 ), married to Anna Caysergues ( 1730 – 1823 ) and had issue, Jeanne de Lesseps ( 1733 –?

Between 1727 and 1749, he sat in the Irish House of Commons for Armagh Borough, was secretary to the lord chancellor in 1726, and in 1733 became a judge of the prerogative court.

Martyn gave some botanical lectures in London in 1721 and 1726, and in 1727 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

In 1726 – 1727 he taught classical studies at a secondary school in Buda in Hungary.

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Chambers worked on translating other works in French on perspective and chemistry from 1726 to 1727, including the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil.

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.

Theophilus married actress Jane Johnson and they had four children: Colley George in 1726, Catherine in 1727, Jane in 1729, and Elizabeth in 1732.

Pepperrell served in the Massachusetts General Court ( 1726 – 1727 ), as its provincial legislature was known, and in the Governor's Council ( 1727 – 1759 ), over which he presided for eighteen years as president.

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Next come the theatres: a Dr. Faustus was the toast of the 1726 – 1727 season, with both Lincoln's Inn Fields and Drury Lane competing for more and more lavish stage effects to get the audiences in:

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

* Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift

* In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ( 1726 ), the country of Lilliput is described as being “ to the north-west of Van Dieman's Land ”.

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift.

* 1726: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

* Jonathan Swift stayed at Loughry Manor as a guest of the Lindsay family while writing Gulliver's Travels ( published in 1726 ).

Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.

Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

Portrait of Anne Hatton by Jonathan Richardson ( painter ) | Jonathan Richardson, circa 1726

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.

Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels.

* Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 )

In Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) Jonathan Swift ridiculed the Royal Society, the oldest scientific society in Britain, and both Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson extolled the virtue of unaltered nature.

First edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ( 1726 )

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

* Sir Alexander Erskine ( 1677 – 1726 )

* Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport ( 1726 – 1814 )

* Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1st Baron Bridport ( 1726 – 1814 )

* William " Lord Stirling " Alexander ( 1726 – 1783 ), Revolutionary War Continental Army Major General

* William Alexander ( 1726 – 1783 ), served at the Battle of Long Island as a Continental Army General

* William Alexander, Lord Stirling ( 1726 – 1783 ), American Revolutionary War soldier

For his engineering and military-engineering achievements he was promoted to the rank of the General-in-Chief in 1726 by Catherine I, and awarded the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky.

* Alexander Cumming ( 1726 – 1763 ), minister 1761 – 1763

This appears in Alexander Gordon's Itinerarium Septentrionale of 1726 and is thought to have been ancient then, derived from folklore and the more learned histories of John of Fordun, Hector Boece and George Buchanan.

* Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport ( 1726 – 1814 )

Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB ( 2 December 1726 – 2 May 1814 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

* Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport ( 1726 – 1814 )

* His cousin once removed, Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport ( 1726 – 1814 ).

Alessandro ( Alexander the Great, HWV 21 ) is an opera written for the Royal Academy of Music ( 1719 ) composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726.