How To Use Sixteenth In A Sentence
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The first great European ocean sailors were sent out in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to explore the world.
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To remove these difficulties, we transmit you a certified copy of an authenticated decree of the National Convention of France, of the sixteenth Pluviose, second year of the Republic; (February fifth, 1794,) which has been lately received by the Pennsylvania
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
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Süleyman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century extended his reach from the Sudan and the northern shore of Africa to Baghdad and far into Europe, where - twice - Turkish rams would batter at the gates of Vienna.
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In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
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The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
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In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examines the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
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Recently, literary scholars have been keen to discuss the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in terms of continuity as well as change.
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It will be observed that this hymn provided syllables only for the six tones of the _hexachord_ then recognized; when the octave scale was adopted (early in the sixteenth century) the initial letters of the last line (s and i) were combined into a syllable for the seventh tone.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Beginning in the sixteenth century many Greek classics were translated into the popular languages.
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The small tower room had been given to Sameth on his sixteenth birthday and had had much use since then.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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But the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
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The man is a sixteenth Spanish navigator.
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The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Similarly, sixteenth-century Italian paintings show little of the various new Turkish types influenced by Ottoman court art that were arriving in Venice by the 1530s.
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In the first part of the sixteenth century it had been one of the busiest and richest trading cities in the world.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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The pastorale was another form which flourished from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, sometimes having religious texts and then again voicing secular sentiments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The permanent embassy building with which we are so familiar had no counterpart in sixteenth-century London.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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The success of the humanists fostered a palpable sense of the difference between fifteenth- and sixteenth-century attitudes toward cultural inheritance and earlier attitudes.
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As well as levelling the town, the quake has also destroyed what remained of the ancient city and its sixteenth century citadel.
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Reuter, a trooper, which has given the sixteenth-century Eng. rutter, but not as a surname.
The Romance of Names
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Florentine Codex: an encyclopedia of Nahua culture and life in precontact Mexico, composed under the auspices of Fray Bernardo de Sahagún during the sixteenth century.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
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His conception of the infernal regions had been actively debated throughout the sixteenth century, two opposed views having been set forth by commentators on Dante's text.
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Allegretto third movement with an endless stream of sixteenth note rhythms, showing a dynamic and imaginative spiritual realm.
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Every moment dies a man, every moment one and one sixteenth is born.
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Several Jewish enclaves already existed within the Holy Roman Empire (from Prague to Frankfurt) well before the sixteenth century.
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Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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This is the sixteenth book by a woman whose name has become the byword for the authentic account of Irish living in the ‘Forties’ and ‘Fifties’.
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For historians of reading and historians of the book, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries offer particularly rich ground for tracing the evolution of the reading experience.
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Mayan civilization had collapsed by the sixteenth century, when Spanish expeditions reached the area.
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Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316.
How Taiwan Became Chinese
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In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
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Apart from the writings of Erasmus and Luther only two books of the sixteenth century can be acclaimed as bestsellers.
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The elevation of the Bible by the Protestants, and particularly the Calvinists — what has been called the bibliolatry of the sixteenth century — was to have im - portant and widespread consequences.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
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Religious opposition to coffee drinking resulted in political proscription a number of times during the sixteenth century.
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By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations.
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This music was full of accidentals, thirty-second notes, dotted whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, slurs, ties and key changes.
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By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
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For a millennium before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, great cities flourished close to what is now the lively Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, as they did elsewhere in Peru.
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The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America.
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Today he won his tenth gold medal, and sixteenth medal overall.
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The changing iconography of witchcraft seems to relate to another trend that only developed fully in the later sixteenth century, that of turning demonology into a kind of experimental science.
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By the time whole areas up to the sixteenth floor were visible, David Childs's intentions could be seen clearly.
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Fragments found at the sixteenth-century Red Bank site in New Brunswick, Canada, show both twill and check weaves in cedar bark, possibly for mats or baskets.
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Ever since the late sixteenth century, the monuments from Britain's remote past have attracted the attentions of antiquaries, novelists, poets and, later, of historians and archaeologists.
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Do you remember when stock used to be priced in sixteenths of a dollar?
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The word aristocracy appeared late in our language, arriving via France in the mid-sixteenth century.
'Aristocrats'
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life.
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For example, consider the widely accepted sixteenth-century ˜tower argument™ against the Copernican claim that the earth moves: the earth can't be moving, because a stone released from a tower will fall ˜straight down™ to the foot of the tower, and not land some distance to the west as apparently required by Copernicus.
Naturalism
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From the late sixteenth century, stasis replaced the earlier dynamism of ideas and applications.
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She began to tremble in fear when her heart's steady pace quickened into a fast-paced minuet, her breath's stable rhythm raced into a sixteenth note, and her feet's adagio tempo sped into a presto.
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What influences prepared the way for the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century?
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, the region was administered as a province of the Mogul Empire.
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By the sixteenth square there was already a kilo of rice on the chess board.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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One late sixteenth-century commentator on America recommended it as a purge for superfluous phlegm; and smokers believed it functioned as an antidote for poisons, as an expellant for "sour" humors, and as a healer of wounds.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
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If some parts of this document sound like a reprise of themes from the sixteenth century, it is because those themes have grown faint for many.
Christianity Today
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In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues.
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Rimbault (Edward F) on Agapemone of the sixteenth century, 50.
Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.
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Wright looks back to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England to explain the social origins of Australia's distinctive pub culture.
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Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style says the word "guillemet" honors the the sixteenth-century typecutter Guillaume le Bé. octothorpe: #
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The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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In Germany in the sixteenth century the Briefmaler, or print colorist, either used stencils to cover predetermined portions of a print or executed the coloring freehand.
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In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1
The English Is Coming!
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But in the sixteenth century houses changed, a process which had begun much earlier but now became commonplace.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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Somewhat nervously, she pressed the button for the elevator that would take her up to the sixteenth floor and Adrienne.
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Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
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The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of representatives among the several States was changed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the Sixteenth Amendment.
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The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration.
Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
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But if the clause be rendered in the second manner, then the sixteenth verse contains an exhortation in these words: "Walk in the Spirit;" and a consectary subjoined to the exhortation in these words: "And ye shall not fulfill the desires or lusts of the flesh.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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As a non-finisher in the event that determines grid placings, Griffiths should have left last for Finke, but was offered a start among the six bikes leaving the grid in the eleventh to sixteenth placings.
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In the sixteenth century, Western mathematics emerged swiftly from a millennial decline.
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Voicing in many pieces is made more advanced by placing the melody in the same hand as many moving sixteenth notes or triplets.
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
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We're studying the Italian masked characters from the sixteenth century commedia dell'arte.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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This actual moth is much larger than the sixteenth of an inch attributed to the fictional insect.
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Sixteenth-century Protestantism was slow to produce similar material, possibly because Protestant clergy were so busy preaching and catechising that they had little time for quiet and reflection.
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April passed, and Charlie spent her sixteenth birthday away from her family and away from Adam.
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The jingles on the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I., against the Tory, or Irish rapparee, and about the Gunpowder Plot, are of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
The Nursery Rhyme Book
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They were promoted to the Championship two seasons ago and are sixteenth in the table this campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Weighing in at a hefty 6.5 pounds and sporting an embossed reproduction of the head of Albrecht Durer's Rhinoceros on the soft-bound cover, this catalog delivers a fascinating look at the scientific technology of the sixteenth century and the celebrated artists who participated in it.
Jane Chafin: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge
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Laced outer garments to shape the body existed from antiquity, but laced undergarments date from the end of the sixteenth century.
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Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
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In his "dramatic journal,"kept irregularly from his sixteenth year, he dramatized scenes from Scott and burlesqued portions of Shakespeare.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
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The big bell in the Temple of Reclining Buddha was recast in the sixteenth century.
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Note 56: To rent additional camels for the transport of Durrani state property the qafilabashi relied on a number of "tahsil thekadars," who functioned as brokers in Peshawar's animal labor market and received an anna or one sixteenth of a rupee on each camel they provided.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examinees the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
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Among these were a commentary and a “questionary” on Aristotle's Physics; the latter, appearing in its first complete edition in 1551, was a much simplified and abridged version of the type of physics text that was used at Paris in the first decades of the sixteenth cen - tury.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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This district has been colonized by Europeans since the middle of the sixteenth century; but down to within a very few years ago immigration was on too limited a scale to make any very great change; and, speaking only of the pampean country, the conquered territory was a long, thinly-settled strip, purely pastoral, and the Indians, with their primitive mode of warfare, were able to keep back the invaders from the greater portion of their ancestral hunting-grounds.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young.
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They can trace their roots back to the sixteenth century.
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Beneath the bubbling sixteenths an obsessive rhythm, a rat-a-tat on a repeated note with a semitone fillip on the end, adds to the feeling of desperation.
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Shell cameos had been popular in the sixteenth century, but it was in the nineteenth century that the art flourished, with the helmet shell and the queen conch shell judged the most suitable for cameo carving.
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That process began in the sixteenth century with the voyages of discovery and has gone on accelerating ever since.
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I remember my first few assignments analyzing journals written by conquistadors and sixteenth-century mariners involved in the African slave trade.
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The work has been credited to a sixteenth century bishop.
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Carbide of 1 inch mesh and above shall not contain more than 5 per cent. of dust, such dust to be defined as carbide capable of passing through a mesh of one-sixteenth of an inch.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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Moreover, despite the butchers' sizable landholdings, the sixteenth-century speculative real estate boom in Antwerp passed them by.
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Both of these procedures are left until after the sixteenth week of gestation in order to reduce the risk of injection outside the amniotic cavity.
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The canzonas and sonatas are unsurpassed - in scale, expressive range, and sheer idiomatic flair - in the entire sixteenth-century instrumental repertoire.
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They were always aiming for at least a sixteenth of a point in profit.
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Having been ruled by foreign powers since the sixteenth century, Moldova declared its independence on 27 August 1991.
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Yet neither of these sources deal with the wars of the late sixteenth century, by which time major combatants were fielding armies of many tens of thousands.
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Southwark was London's bawdy pleasure district.
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The big bell in the Temple of Reclining Buddha was recast in the sixteenth century.
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This is the sixteenth and final issue of the journal that will be edited by me.
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But, as in the sixteenth century the harp went out and the bagpipes came into fashion, it may be surmised that it was brought in, with other French novelties, on the return of Queen Mary, perhaps by the Queen herself, or, maybe, some itinerant player of the cornemuse may have accidentally been in her train, and his music set a fashion which has now become national.
Brittany & Its Byways
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These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent, although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London.
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During the sixteenth century the intellectual climate in many parts of Europe was slowly changing.
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For those who don't know, the Honours of Scotland are the regalia or crown jewels, mostly dating from the early sixteenth century.
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The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were periods of recolonization in Ukraine, particularly in the provinces of Kiev and Bratslav.
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The figure of the circle that delineates the library was seen by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century humanists as an essential aspect of the encyclopedia.
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Flat alluvial fields rise up from the river to meet undulating slopes and escarpments that have been in cultivation since the sixteenth century.
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And, sixteenthly, the thruppenny bit has about it this noble quality, that it represents an aliquot part of that sum which is paid to me daily from the Royal Treasury in silver, a metal upon which we have always insisted.
On Something
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Some people of eastern Mediterranean and southern Italian origins suffer from a hereditary enzyme deficiency called favism, the symptoms of which, anemia, jaundice, fever, and diarrhea, can be brought on by eating fava beans.55 These beans had been grown in Languedoc long before seeds of Phaseolus beans were brought there from Spain at the end of the sixteenth century.
Savoring The Past
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It was the French chronologist, Scaliger, who in the sixteenth century asserted, "nulli melius piraticam exercent quam Angli"; and although he had no need to cross the Channel to find men proficient in this primitive calling, the remark applies to the England of his time with a force which we to-day scarcely realise.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
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In sixteenth-century governmental documents dealing with the Zecca, however, this particular representation of the lion is invariably called ‘San Marco in soldo,’ after the name of the coin, the soldo, on which it frequently appeared.
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The windmill is a machine for lifting water, turning wind power into dry land: trading energy for space, sixteenth-century style.
Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
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When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de Boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I.
The English Novel
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By the sixteenth century hypochondria had become an aspect of melancholy and was associated especially with the humour of black bile and with the spleen, the organ that was supposed to clear black bile from the body.
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To recognize the necessity of a religion, the necessity of authority, and then to leave to subjects the right to deny religion, attack its worship, oppose the exercise of power by public expression communicable and communicated by thought, was an impossibility which the Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of.
Catherine De Medici
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These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.
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Pi is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 80.
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English sixteenth centuries, and the alembicated exquisiteness of Catullus and Carew; he does not dislike Webster because he is not Dryden, or Young because he is not Spenser; he does not quarrel with Sophocles because he is not Æschylus, or with Hugo because he is not Heine.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The process was helped, after the mid-sixteenth century, by the arrival of a new foreign element.
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It is a sixteenth-century setting for four voices of a monophonic song notated c1100.
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That was in the sixteenth century.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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The projecting porch with its embattled parapet is rendered with local marl and is a late sixteenth-century addition.
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However, the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century continued to hold the Augustinian view of the millennium; nevertheless they suggested changes in eschatological interpretation that led to a renewal of premillennialism in the seventeenth century.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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Here there is a sixteenth-century white-washed country house or quinta, whose monumental outside staircase and onion-shaped cupolas are covered with peacock-blue tiles.
The Education of a Gardener
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The fuel cells in the tanker are made of nylon fabric less than one-sixteenth of an inch thick.
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Statura fuit supra modum humili," etc.] [Footnote 129: Sc. Sammarthani Elog., _ubi supra_.] [Footnote 130: Lefèvre's scientific works were numerous, and some of them passed through many editions during the early years of the sixteenth century.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Michelozzo, made in 1450, and covered with stucco decoration in the sixteenth century, form the cortile in which, over the fountain of
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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One happy illustration of the customs of the sixteenth century was the habit of the barber-surgeon's boy, who amused the customers, waiting for "next turn" to be shaved or bled, with his ballad or rhyming verse; and a boy with a good voice proved a rare draw to the "bloods" about town, and those who frequented the taverns and ordinaries within the City.
A History of Nursery Rhymes
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There is but little of interest in the present buildings at Vallombrosa, which date from the seventeenth century; nor does the church itself possess anything of importance, unless it be the relic of S. Giovanni enshrined in a casquet of the sixteenth century, a work of Paolo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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Sixteenth-century mansion with fine furniture, tapestries and objetsd'art.
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I had to shift her to the inside and kept her busy through the last sixteenth of the race.
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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Records of the sixteenth century show Stella Sacerdote and Chiara Sciunnach who engaged in the silk business, Dulcia bat Hanniah who raised buffalo (probably for manufacturing cheese) and Gioia di Montalto, who manufactured and sold buttons.
Entrepreneurs.
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At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century.
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This style of architecture is usually referred to the sixteenth century.
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Defamation continued to be prosecuted in the church courts over the course of the sixteenth century, and the volume of cases increased rather dramatically.
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Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
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The stained glass, which is mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was reset in 1912.
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The Badianus Manuscript, an indigenous herbal written in the mid-sixteenth century, recommends a strong purge for "oppression of the chest," an ailment that makes one feel "constricted" by a "certain fullness" in the chest area. 9
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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England passed through certain vicissitudes, until in the sixteenth century she began a career of expansion.
The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril
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It is my intention here to argue that herms, as they appear in modest abundance in sixteenth-century Italian art, were susceptible of many possible interpretations, often simultaneously.
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His valour, prudence, and humanity, more especially the latter quality, which shines forth strangely in contrast with the cruelty of Pizarro, ensures for him a distinction all his own among the "conquistadores" of the sixteenth century.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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This was formed in the sixteenth century from the verb disable, but the corresponding adjective abled seems not to have been used at that time.
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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Apocrypha is a Greek word, signifying "secret" or "hidden," but in the sixteenth century it came to be applied to a list of books contained in the Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament, but not in the Palestinian, or Hebrew
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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In this she looked at letters of remission in which people in sixteenth-century France begged to be pardoned after having been found guilty of capital crimes.
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Mathilde had planned a party for her, a party to celebrate her sixteenth birthday in a week's time.
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We're studying dramatic texts by sixteenth century playwrights.
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In addition to quarters, eighths and sixteenth notes, triplets and dotted rhythms are used tastefully and add variety.
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A bare majority of the Court declared the federal income tax unconstitutional, a position that was not reversed until the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913.
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The strict interpretation of statute, an important feature of the sixteenth century, owed much to the invention of printing.
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A few blocks away are Kelly Ingram Park, with its statues of police dogs and fire hoses, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, long since repaired from the bombing.
All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story
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The sixteenth century is the home ground of the non finito.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Florentine Dominican of the sixteenth century, and with several other stigmatics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The modern spread of witchcraft in English-speaking nations, began during the sixteenth century, in the setting of imported cabalist and Rosicrucian cults built up around Oxford and Cambridge.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
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Actually, late sixteenth-century playgoers, actors and playwrights considered the stage as a set of funerary items and buildings.
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It was against these excesses that the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was aimed.
Christianity Today
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The catch was one of the most popular forms of song from the mid-Sixteenth through the late-nineteenth centuries.
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In the early sixteenth century, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca compared them to carob beans and described how Texas Natives ate them ground into a meal.
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The species range from tropical tree ferns with leaves measured in yards, to small free-floating aquatics with leaves less than a sixteenth of an inch long.
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This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The old printed matters of the sixteenth century formed an extremely rare treasury; all the pieces, pamphlets, and placards on the reform of the Low Countries were kept together in a "varia" volume, thus constituting a unique ensemble.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
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States to keep troops in time of peace, and they are expressly distinguished and placed in a separate category from land or naval forces in the sixteenth paragraph above quoted; and the words _land_ and _naval forces_ are shown by paragraphs 12, 13, and 14, to mean the Army and Navy of the Confederate States.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
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In the case of Florence, we discover the 'Last Supper' no less than fifteen times in the refectories of various religious houses (sometimes in a wider iconographic context), from the earliest representation of about 1340 in Santa Croce, up to the middle of the sixteenth century ...
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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To trace their sources one can turn to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritan thought and practice.
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There is promise that, as the demology of aboriginal America is pushed forward, the records relating to the Siouan Indians and especially to their structure and institutions will aid in explaining why some stocks are limited and others extensive, why large stocks in general characterize the interior and small stocks the coasts, and why the dominant peoples of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were successful in displacing the preexistent and probably more primitive peoples of the Mississippi valley.
The Siouan Indians
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By the mid-sixteenth century cacao had acquired status as an elite beverage in New Spain, and a material culture and vocabulary had been developed or acquired to accompany it.
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Triangulation, first proposed by the sixteenth-century Dutch geodesist Gemma Frisius, was until the development of satellite geodesy the main method by which regional geodetic networks were measured.
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We have some extant parish records from the sixteenth century.
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From the start of the sixteenth century, as manufacturing techniques improved, Portugal started making its own highly distinctive tiles, synthesizing Islamic geometry.
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Gingerich noted ‘the majority of sixteenth-century astronomers thought eliminating the equant was Copernicus' big achievement.’
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_The growth of the wide gap_, is some-what irregular; but he means, the _growth_, or progression of the time which filled up the _gap_ of the story between Perdita's birth and her sixteenth year.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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We begin with Caedmon, from the seventh century, but by page 6 we are already up to the sixteenth century.
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Well into the sixteenth century the cedilla is often found wrongly added to words such as puer, equus, eruditus, epistola; in 1550 the Froben firm was still regularly printing aedo, aeditio; and in the index to an edition of Aquinas, Venice, 1593, aenigma and Aegyptus, spelt in this way, are only to be found under e.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
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When, in the early sixteenth century, Johann Tetzel jacked up the price of indulgences and even had one of the first singing commercials composed to push sales ( "When the coin into the platter pings, the soul out of purgatory springs"), he failed to realize that he was overreaching.
The Market as God
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Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
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Descriptions of the malady from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries relate the horror of its effects: the terrible sores and swellings, often extending into the mouth and throat, and leaving the body covered with scabs that turned from red to black; severe fever; pain in the bones so intense that patients "screamed day and night without respite, envying the dead themselves"; and, often early death.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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This objection had been voiced even in the sixteenth century.
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Her large collection of this ware encompassed a wide variety of forms and ranged in date from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.
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[177] I have found a notice of a similar case in France, during the sixteenth century, in Montaigne's _Journal du Voyage en Italie en_ 1850
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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In the sixteenth century, for example, pungent animal scents such as musk and civet were very popular.
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Protestantism in the sixteenth century, if it could have been accepted in France, would have been a more edifying dissolvent than Voltairism was in the eighteenth; but it is certain that the loosening of theological ideas and the organization connected with them and upholding them, was the first process towards making truly social ideas possible, and their future realization a thing which good men might hope for.
Voltaire
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It was the sixteenth VC awarded a Canadian in World War II; only the second for a Fleet Air Arm aviator.
Whirlwind
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The Tudors established a strong monarchy in the sixteenth century.
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In the sixteenth century the new towns on the Spanish islands were a compilation of mixed styles dominated by the plateresque style, although there were also many Gothic and Romanesque elements.
