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Starting in the late 1660s she retired from her courtesan lifestyle and concentrated more on her literary friends — from 1667, she hosted her gatherings at l ' hôtel Sagonne, which was considered " the " location of the salon of Ninon de l ' Enclos despite other locales in the past.
A Tudor fortress guarded the neck of water between the eastern Hoe and Mount Batten and some sheer granite and limestone cannon points remain, however in the late 1660s, following The Restoration, a massive star-shaped stone fortress known as the Royal Citadel, was constructed to replace it.
A recent assessment about the early history of the inverse square law is that " by the late 1660s ," the assumption of an " inverse proportion between gravity and the square of distance was rather common and had been advanced by a number of different people for different reasons ".
A recent assessment about the early history of the inverse square law is that " by the late 1660s ," the assumption of an " inverse proportion between gravity and the square of distance was rather common and had been advanced by a number of different people for different reasons ".
Corneille continued to write plays through 1674 ( mainly tragedies, but also something he called " heroic comedies ") and many continued to be successes, although the " irregularities " of his theatrical methods were increasingly criticized ( notably by François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac ) and the success of Jean Racine from the late 1660s signaled the end of his preeminence.
The settlement of Massacoe continued in the late 1660s.
This migration in the late landed the Westo Indians in the present area of Augusta, Georgia in what was likely to be the 1660s.
A series of disasters in the late 1660s and 1670s discredited Charles II's governments, and powerful political interests ( including some who had been identified with the Parliamentary side in the Civil War ) began to agitate for a greater role of Parliament in government, coupled with more tolerance for Protestant dissenters.
Although mining attempts began as early as the late 1660s, it wasn't until 1896 that gold was discovered on nearby Wawa Lake, leading to a rush to the area.
The colony's governance, which had first come under increased scrutiny by King Charles II beginning in the 1660s, came under substantial threat in the late 1670s.
It was invented by Christiaan Huygens in the late 1660s and was the first compound ( multi-lens ) eyepiece.
With Charles distracted by war with the Dutch and domestic politics in the late 1660s, the issue lay dormant until the mid-1670s.
William Byrd came to Virginia in the late 1660s.
In the late 1660s, there were thus three troops in England, one in Ireland, and two in Scotland of which one was ceremonial for attendance of Lord High Commissioner ( named after John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton and after John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes ).
The Royal Citadel in Plymouth, Devon, England, was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme.
Although préciosité was often mocked ( especially in the late 1660s, when the phenomenon had spread to the provinces ) for its linguistic and romantic excesses ( often linked to a misogynistic disdain for intellectual women ), the French language and social manners of the 17th century were permanently changed by it.
Many were successful, although the " irregularities " of his theatrical methods were increasingly criticized ( notably by François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac ); the success of Jean Racine from the late 1660s signaled the end of his preeminence.
Although Pierre Corneille continued to produce tragedies until the end of his life, the works of Jean Racine from the late 1660s on totally eclipsed the late plays of the elder dramatist.
At some point in the late 1650s or 1660s, his parents moved to Dublin, where they both died, his mother around 1669 and his father in 1671, so William may well have spent the bulk of his formative years in Ireland.
In the late 1660s, he was named écuyer ( equerry ) to Louis Joseph, duke of Guise.

late and early
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.
In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.
It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.
Accordingly, if epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion occurs in this phalanx near menarche, early and late menarches might have been forecast rather precisely at the time of Onset of ossification for the 18 girls with `` same schedule ''.
In spite of the defects in this system, the figures on total population during the late 1930's and again in the early 1950's seem to have represented actual conditions in most districts with approximate fidelity.
Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.
Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.
Synthetic Cubism began with Picasso alone, late in 1913 or early in 1914 ; ;
For critics, Hardy has had no poetic periods -- one does not speak of early Hardy or late Hardy, or of the London or Max Gate period, but simply of Hardy, as of a poetic monolith.
If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.
This carried over into the more urbanized late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the man ruled the roost in the best bull-roaring Life With Father manner.
The farmer must get up early, and, at times, work late at night.
There were mornings when Stanley came in late, afternoons when he left early, days when he didn't come in at all.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.
And there is the bright note: The gains were achieved in the face of temporary traffic lags late in 1960 and early in 1961 as a result of business recession.
Farther south, there are attractive patches all the way to the Ozarks, with some seasonal peaks as late as early November.
After a hiatus of several centuries, formal commentary by Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus reappears in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, apparently sponsored by Anna Comnena
The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.
Although they are often considered to be weeds in gardens, this viewpoint is not always necessary, as most of them die when the soil temperature warms up again in early to late spring when other plants are still dormant and have not yet leafed out.
He subsequently wrote three novels merging these overarching themes, The World of Null-A and The Pawns of Null-A in the late 1940s, and Null-A Three in the early 1980s.

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