And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.

In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.

Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.

In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.

Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.

In the eighteenth century there emerges for the first time the notion of a private tragedy ( or nearly for the first time, there having been a small number of Elizabethan domestic tragedies such as the famous Arden Of Feversham ).

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.

And not one single dwelling left there, though once, in the early eighteenth century, there were close to a hundred houses.

As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

It all takes place in the eighteenth century.

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, agrarianism felt the influence of the European Romanticism movement.

The eighteenth century saw major advances in acoustics as mathematicians applied the new techniques of calculus to elaborate theories of sound wave propagation.

The species was introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

André Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century ( but was supplanted later ).

The discipline of aesthetics, which originated in the eighteenth century, mistook this transient state of affairs for a revelation of the permanent nature of art.

In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

Although this is a relatively small value, it was well within the observational capability of the instruments available in the early eighteenth century.

Dr. Johnson and William Hazlitt of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England ; ;

" " Research has shown ", summarises William Lazonick, " that the ' free-born Englishman ' of the eighteenth century – even those who, by force of circumstance, had to submit to agricultural wage labour – tenaciously resisted entry into the capitalist workshop.

Records from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries show the Rivers family to be solidly middle-class with many Cambridge, Church of England and Royal Navy associations, the most famous of which were Midshipman William Rivers and his father Gunner Rivers who both served aboard HMS Victory.

* William Hogarth, artist, lived in Kennington in the early part of the eighteenth century.

Ownership was in the hands of a merchant from Bungay at the end of the eighteenth century, and was later bought by William Butcher.

In the eighteenth century, Massachusetts granted unappropriated land to veterans of Sir William Phipps ' 1690 expedition against French-held Canada as compensation for services.

In the eighteenth century Sir Edmund Halley and William Whiston ( Newton ’ s successor as Lucasian professor at Cambridge ) had theorized that one could calculate both the latitude and longitude of any position on the surface of the earth by measuring the magnetic dip of a compass needle.

Although Leland's Itinerary notes remained unpublished until the eighteenth century, they provided a significant quarry of data and descriptions for William Camden's Britannia ( first edition, 1586 ), and many other antiquarian works.

Impromptu performances of song and swimming were given by local celebrity William Cussans in the eighteenth century.

The Foundling Hospital Collection includes works of art by Britain's most prominent eighteenth century artists: William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Louis-Francois Roubiliac and many others.

March of the Guards to Finchley ( 1750 ), William Hogarth's satirical masterpiece, donated by the artist to the Foundling Hospital. The Committee Room, one of the original eighteenth century interiors, is the room where mothers intending to leave their babies would be interviewed for suitability.

Up to the eighteenth century, the Red-billed Chough was associated with fire-raising, and was described by William Camden as incendaria avis, " oftentime it secretly conveieth fire sticks, setting their houses afire ".

A ceiling in the eighteenth century Powerscourt Townhouse Centre | Powerscourt House, the townhouse of Viscount Powerscourt on South William Street, Dublin.

Sir William Blackstone KC SL ( 10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780 ) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.

At the close of the eighteenth century, William Cowper ushered in a renewal of blank verse with his volume of kaleidoscopic meditations, " The Task ", published in 1784.

Pagodas traditionally have an odd number of levels, a notable exception being the eighteenth century pagoda " folly " designed by Sir William Chambers at Kew Gardens in London.

No other Europeans visited Tasmania until the late eighteenth century, when several visited southern Tasmania ( then referred to as Van Diemens Land ) including Frenchman Marion du Fresne ( 1772 ), Englishmen Tobias Furneaux ( 1773 ), James Cook ( 1777 ) and William Bligh ( 1788 and 1792 ), and Frenchman Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux ( 1792 – 93 ).

* Dr William Battie, an eminent eighteenth century physician specialising in mental illness, built and lived in Court Garden House from 1758 until his death in 1776.

By the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Brooke's inheritance was again united in Sir William Boothby, 4th Baronet ; when he died in 1787, the quarter of the Barony of Burgh, and the heirship to Cobham, passed to his only sister, Mrs. Mary Disney.

William Maclay ( July 20, 1737April 16, 1804 ) was a politician from Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century.

William Gifford, perhaps the eighteenth century's most devoted reader of Jonson, called Marston " the most scurrilous, filthy and obscene writer of his time.

It subsequently declined in importance, and became a school which was managed by headmaster William Prosser in the latter eighteenth century.

1350 ); Guy of Warwick, a poem ( written in 1617 and licensed, but not printed ) by John Lane, the manuscript of which ( in the British Library ) contains a sonnet by John Milton, father of the poet ; The Famous Historie of Guy, Earl of Warwick ( c. 1607 ) by Samuel Rowlands ; The Booke of the moste Victoryous Prince Guy of Warwicke ( William Copland, London, n. d .); other editions by J. Cawood and C. Bates ; chapbooks and ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievements and Curious Events of Guy, Earl of Warwick, a tragedy ( 1661 ) which may possibly be identical with a play on the subject written by John Day and Thomas Dekker, and entered at Stationers ' Hall on 15 January 1618 / 19 ; three verse fragments are printed by Hales and F. J. Furnivall in their edition of the Percy Folio MS. vol.

William Stukeley attempted to reconstruct the damaged tomb in plan in the eighteenth century.

William Stukeley recorded the site in the eighteenth century when it was only partially destroyed and suggested it extended further although modern excavation and archaeological geophysics have not confirmed this.