In 1747 he wrote the Promenade du sceptique, an allegory pointing first at the extravagances of Catholicism ; second, at the vanity of the pleasures of the world which is the rival of the church ; and third, at the desperate and unfathomable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world.

He wrote letters, had two ordinary sermons published ( in 1747 and 1750 ), and tried his hand at satire.

While some people consider the inclusion of jelly to be a recent variation, the earliest known recipe to include jelly dates from 1747, and the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861.

A frustrated Richardson wrote to Edward Young in November 1747:

The best known is the hymn entitled “ Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur .” Gellert wrote a few sentimental comedies: Die Betschwester ( The Praying Sister, 1745 ), Die kranke Frau ( The Sick Woman, 1747 ), Das Los in der Lotterie ( 1748 ), and Die zärtlichen Schwestern ( The Affectionate Sisters, 1747 ), the last of which was much admired.

" In a letter to Johann Georg Gmelin dated 25 February 1747, Linnaeus wrote:

He wrote two other romances which were favorably received: The Baroness de Luz ( 1741 ) and Confessions of Count de *** ( 1747 ).

She wrote Six Town Eclogues, with some other Poems ( 1747 ).

In 1788 Jan Baptist Chrysostomus Verlooy ( 1747 – 1797 ), a jurist and politician from the Southern Netherlands, wrote an essay on d ' onacht der moederlycke tael, the first sign of life of the Flemish movement: a plea for the native language, but also for freedom and democracy.

The novel was sufficiently popular that Sarah wrote Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple as an epistolary furtherance to the novel in 1747.

Then on January 15, 1747 Le Sage wrote to his father:

The daughter of Thomas Mulso ( 1695 – 1763 ), a gentleman farmer, and his wife ( d. 1747 / 8 ), a daughter of Colonel Thomas, Hester wrote a romance at the age of nine, ' The Loves of Amoret and Melissa ', which earned her mother's disapproval.

* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier wrote a Daphnis et Chloé pastorale in 3 acts in 1747.

While in garrison at Bordeaux Mirabeau had made the acquaintance of Montesquieu, and after retiring from the army he wrote his first work, his Testament Politique ( 1747 ), which demanded for the prosperity of France a return of the French noblesse to their old position in the Middle Ages.

The style became even more popular thanks to William Chambers ( 1723 – 1796 ), who lived in China from 1745 to 1747, and wrote a book, The Drawings, buildings, furniture, habits, machines and untensils of the Chinese, published in 1757.

In 1747 he was appointed bishop at Bergen, where he introduced many educational reforms, and wrote Glossarium Norvagicum ( 1749 ) and Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte Norwegens ( Copenhagen, 1752 – 53 ), while his pastoral letters formed in part the basis of his later Collegium pastorale practicum ( 1757 ).

The style became even more popular thanks to William Chambers ( 1723 – 1796 ), who lived in China from 1745 to 1747, and wrote a book, The Drawings, buildings, furniture, habits, machines and untensils of the Chinese, published in 1757.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

In 1747, while serving as surgeon on HMS Salisbury, James Lind carried out a controlled experiment to develop a cure for scurvy.

Johann Elert Bode ( 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826 ) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law.

Although Lind was not the first to suggest citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy, he was the first to study their effect by a systematic experiment in 1747.

Until 1747, he travelled to Venice to paint for Sigismund Streit, for the Casa Savoia and other buildings of the city.

By the mid-18th century there was an increasing number of proposals to create a public gallery, with the art critic La Font de Saint-Yenne publishing, in 1747, a call for a display of the royal collection '.

The other name " wolfram " ( or " volfram "), used for example in most European ( especially Germanic and Slavic ) languages, is derived from the mineral wolframite, and this is also the origin of its chemical symbol, W. The name " wolframite " is derived from German " wolf rahm " (" wolf soot " or " wolf cream "), the name given to tungsten by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747.

He had sat for Seaford since 1747.

Begun in 1747, the members looked to women for leadership.

The methodical use of sugar beets for the extraction of sugar dates to 1747, when Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, professor of physics in the Academy of Science of Berlin, discovered the existence of a sugar in beets similar in its properties to that obtained from sugar cane.

The first organised hunt for the benefit of a group ( rather than a single patron ) was started by Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax in 1747.

Ten years later there were several Jewish families in the town ; on Feb. 3, 1747, there was recorded a deed to Isaac Nunus Ricus ( Henriques ) and Joseph Simon, conveying of land " in trust for the society of Jews settled in and about Lancaster ," to be used as a place of burial.

Following the creation of the Corps of Bridges and Roads in 1716, the King's Council decided in 1747 to found a specific training course for the state's engineers, as École royale des ponts et chaussées.

Philidor visited England in 1747 and decisively beat the Syrian Phillip Stamma in a match + 8 = 1 − 1, despite the fact Philidor let Stamma have White in every game, and scored all draws as wins for Stamma.

In one of these, San Joaquin ( 1747 ), Martin Dobrizhoffer ministered for eight years.

Within thirteen months, in August 1747, Gua de Malves was fired for being an ineffective leader.

Near the end of that war in 1747 an Orangist revolution restored the stadtholderate with vastly increased powers for the stadtholder ( the stadtholderate became hereditary ).

These managed for a while to roll back a number of the reforms of the revolution of 1747, strongly diminishing his powers.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

A further siege took place in 1702, where General Menno van Coehoorn defended the town successfully for the Dutch and in 1747 when it was taken by the French after incompetent defence by Lt General Pieter de la Rocque.

The town was the site of many battles during King George's War, and in 1747 was abandoned for three years.

" The Speech of Polly Baker " was first published in April 1747 in The Gentleman's Magazine.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

* 1747 – John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1817 )

* 1747 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer ( d. 1822 )

* 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander ( d. 1792 )

* John Walker ( clerical historian ) ( 1674 – 1747 ), English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian

While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the 22-year-old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller John " Walking " Stewart ( 1747 – 1822 ), who was nearing the end of a thirty-years ' peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the fledgling United States.

* July 18 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain ( b. 1747 )

* July 20 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat ( d. 1747 )

* John Dunlap ( 1747 – 1812 ), publisher of the first American daily newspaper the Pennsylvania Packet in 1784, also the printer of the American Declaration of Independence.

* John Anderson ( Scottish businessman ) ( 1747 – 1820 ), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland

Painting of Deptford Dockyard in 1747 by John Cleveley the Elder

John Woolman noted in his journal attending a Quaker meeting at " Setawket " in the spring of 1747.

* John Potter ( Fellow 1694 – 1747 )

* John Paul Jones Cottage Museum – The traditional Scottish cottage in which John Paul Jones was born in 1747.

* John Billingsley ( agriculturist ) ( 1747 – 1811 ), British agriculturist

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

* Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth ( 1747 – 1817 ), accomplished Royal Naval officer who served under Nelson.

The work was undertaken at the request of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey ; from their correspondence came the idea for The Roman Senate, published in 1747.

He was conveyed in a litter to London, and after a trial of five days ( with evidence given against him by the fellow Jacobite John Murray of Broughton ) sentence of death was pronounced on 19 March 1747.

He was executed by John Thrift on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England.

* Richard ( died 1762 ), married Margaret Meadows ; his eldest son, Philip Taylor ( 1747 – 1831 ), was presbyterian minister at Kay Street, Liverpool ( 1767 ), and at Eustace Street, Dublin ( 1771 ), and grandfather of Meadows Taylor ; his second son, John Taylor, the hymn-writer.

Having a reputation for beauty, Woffington appeared in portraits and paintings by several artists of the day, including Jacobus Lovelace in 1744, Peter van Bleeck in 1747, and John Lewis in 1753.

John Machin served as secretary of the Royal Society from 1718 to 1747.