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1754 and 1762
But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.
On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention ; he withdrew to Mazarin college, where he worked actively for some years, and there died of an attack of gout aggravated by over-work in 1762.
Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.
William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.
Three editions were published, the first in 1754, followed by a virtual reprint in 1755, and finally a revised and enlarged edition in 1762, by which time Chippendale's illustrated designs began to show signs of Neoclassicism.
* Dorothea Christiane Erxleben of Quedlinburg ( 1715 – 1762 ) made her Doctor of Medicine in 1754 at the Medical Department of Martin Luther University ( MLU ).
Over the years they would have 12 children: Mary ( 1754 ), Lois ( 1756 ), Miriam ( 1758 ), Rhoda ( 1760 ), Hannah ( who died as an infant in 1762 ), Levi ( 1763 ), Migale ( 1765, died that same year ), Johnathan ( 1768 ), Ezra ( 1770 ), Sarah ( 1773 ), Hannah ( 1776, also died as an infant ) and a child that was never registered.
In the next fifteen years they would have eight children: Ithamar in 1752, Nahum ( 1754 ), Sara ( 1756 ), Thomas ( 1758 ), Artemas Jr. ( 1762 ), Henry Dana ( 1768 ), Martha ( 1760 ) and Maria ( 1764 ).
He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762.
Like his younger brother he was an influential statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1754 to 1756 and from 1757 to 1762.
Much of Whitehead's work was well received: his tragedy The Roman Father was successfully produced by David Garrick in 1750, Creusa, Queen of Athens ( 1754 ) was also praised and his comedies The School for Lovers ( 1762 ) and The Trip to Scotland ( 1770 ) were successful.
His studio was prodigious and he painted frescoes for the Church of Santa Chiara ( 1752 – 1754 ), five canvases for the Chapel in Caserta Palace ( now lost ), as well as many others including for the Benedictines of Aversa ( 1761 ), a History of Saint Francis of Paola for the Sanctuary of Saint Maria di Pozzano of Castellammare di Stabia ( 1762 – 1763 ), and many other altarpieces.
The eruptions of Mount Asama mark the span of Japan's recorded history, including: 2009, 2008, 2004, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1983, 1982, 1973, 1965, 1961, 1958 – 59, 1953 – 55, 1952, 1952, 1950 – 51, 1949, 1947, 1946, 1944 – 45, 1938 – 42, 1935 – 37, 1934, 1934, 1933, 1931 – 32, 1930, 1929, 1929, 1927 – 28, 1924, 1922, 1920 – 21, 1919, 1918 ?, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, 1909 – 14, 1908, 1908, 1907, 1907, 1906, 1905 ?, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1902, 1900 – 01, 1899, 1899, 1894, 1889, 1879, 1878 ?, 1875, 1869, 1815, 1803, 1803, 1783, 1779 ?, 1777, 1776, 1769, 1762, 1755, 1754, 1733, 1732, 1731, 1729, 1729, 1728, 1723, 1723, 1722, 1721, 1720, 1719, 1718, 1717, 1711, 1710, 1708 – 09, 1706, 1704, 1703, 1669, 1661, 1661, 1660, 1659, 1658, 1657, 1656, 1655, 1653, 1652, 1651, 1650 ?, 1649, 1648, 1648, 1647, 1645, 1644, 1609, 1605, 1604, 1600, 1598, 1597, 1596, 1596, 1595 ?, 1591, 1590, 1532, 1528, 1527, 1518, 1427 ?, 1281, 1108, 887, 685.
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Raja Sukh Jivan ruled as governor and, later, as king ( 17541762 ) of Kashmir.
In 1754 he became superintendent of the observatory, where he worked until his death in 1762.
Charles-Joseph settled in Paris in 1754, and established his own bookshop in 1762.
Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine ; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.
In 1754, Burton was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 48th Foot, which was involved in the captures of Quebec in 1759 and Martinique and Havanna in 1762.
Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right ( Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique ) ( 1762 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

1754 and published
Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ), published in 1755 in Holland.
Herschel's discoveries were supplemented by those of Caroline Herschel ( 11 objects ) and his son John Herschel ( 1754 objects ) and published by him as General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters in 1864.
De Moivre continued studying the fields of probability and mathematics until his death in 1754 and several additional papers were published after his death.
Nevertheless, the play has been intermittently popular, revived in productions in various forms and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespearean performance history, beginning after a long interval with David Garrick in his adaptation called Florizel and Perdita ( first performed in 1754 and published in 1756.
He was the greatest lawyer of his day, and part-author at least of Balfour's Practicks, the earliest text-book of Scottish law, not published, however, till 1754.
In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director.
Botany, particularly the leaves of plants, next attracted his attention ; and after several years of diligent study, rendered irksome by the increasing weakness of his eyesight, he published in 1754 one of the most original and interesting of his works, Recherches sur l ' usage des feuilles dans les plantes ; in which among other things he advances many considerations tending to show ( as was later done by Francis Darwin ) that plants are endowed with powers of sensation and discernment.
In 1754 his Essai de psychologie was published anonymously in London.
The inverted question mark was adopted long after the Real Academia's decision, published in the second edition of ( The Orthography of the Royal Academy ) in 1754 recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish — (" How old are you ?").
The Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste () is a 68-volume German encyclopedia published by Johann Heinrich Zedler between 1731 and 1754.
Bolingbroke's writings were edited and published by Mallet in 1754.
Working with the editor Denis-Marius Perrin of Aix-en-Provence, she published 614 letters in 1734-1737, then 772 letters in 1754.
A prominent critic of Sandemanian beliefs was the Baptist Andrew Fuller ( 1754 – 1815 ) who published Strictures on Sandemanianism ( 1812 ) in which he argued that if faith concerns the mind only, then there could be no way to distinguish genuine Christians from nominal Christians.
He published his discoveries in a treatise " Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell ' armonia '" ( Padua, 1754 ).
This work was published posthumously in Mémoires posthumes de M. de Chéseaux ( 1754 ).
This was done, but Leclerc sent the manuscript to the library of the Remonstrants, and it was later published in London in 1754 under the title Two Letters from Isaac Newton to M le Clerc.
In 1750 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society ; and, in 1754, he published, at Oxford, his Antiquities of Cornwall ( 2nd ed., London, 1769 ).
published in 1754 under title: Observations on the Antiquities of Cornwall.
First published in 1754, 27 years after his death, it claimed to review all the textual evidence available from ancient sources on two disputed Bible passages: and.
Hiller also published an essay on the Mimesis of Nature in Music ( Abhandlung über die Nachahmung der Natur in der Musik ) in 1754.
Joseph Joubert ( 7 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord – 4 May 1824 in Paris ) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées ( Thoughts ), which was published posthumously.
Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ), published by Marc-Michel Rey in 1755 in Holland.

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