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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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Music in the
Seventeenth Century
Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.
Seventeen-year-old Angie, living with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.
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Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture
Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this book takes a fresh look at the careers ofthe Baroque Masters and many lesser-known artists.
Ann Sutherland Harris, 2005
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Major Women Writers of
Seventeenth-century England
The texts included are newly edited and rely on the best manuscripts and editions of the time.
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Witch-Hunting in
Seventeenth-Century New England: A ...
Illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England.
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The Medical Revolution of the
Seventeenth Century
This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in seventeenth-century medicine.
Roger Kenneth French, Andrew Wear, 1989
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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high ...
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The Cambridge History of
Seventeenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music seeks to provide the most up-to-date knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
Tim Carter, John Butt, 2005
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in ...
Shapin explains how gentlemen-philosophers resolved varying testimony about such phemonema as comets, icebergs, and the pressure of water by bringing to bear practical social knowledge and standards of decorum.
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The Old Dominion in the
Seventeenth Century: A Documentary ...
Freshly rethought chapter introductions and suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30 years. New illustrations of seventeenth-century artifacts and buildings enrich the texts with recent archaeological findings.
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Sunday School: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
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Vonage Becomes Seventeenth Member Company To Join NYC …
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Sweden's Seventeenth-Century Mummy Examined
LUND, SWEDEN—The well-preserved mummy of Peder Winstrup, a bishop who had been buried in a crypt at Lund Cathedral a year after his death in 1679, has ... «Archaeology, 六月 15»
Seventeenth member of Geelong Powerball syndicate steps forward
May 28, 2015: A 17th syndicate member has made a separate claim to Geelong's Powerball prize on the same day his former colleagues had a minor victory in ... «9news.com.au, 五月 15»
Do snails have eyes? Seventeenth century 'mythbuster' and science …
Thomas Browne was a seventeenth century doctor who championed rational thinking, challenged established thought, and investigated the natural world. «The Guardian, 五月 15»
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll review (Dunstan playhouse …
Unlike the other play that won first prize in the 1955 Playwright Advisory Board Competition — Oriel Gray's The Torrents – Ray Lawler's Summer of the ... «Daily Review, 四月 15»
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
There is a great deal of depth and many layers in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll: it is essentially about masculinity and alpha males coming to terms with ... «InDaily, 四月 15»
U.S. Rig Count Falls for Seventeenth Week as Crude Price Dips
In its weekly release, Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI - Analyst Report) reported another fall in the U.S. rig count (number of ... «Zacks.com, 四月 15»
Seventeenth-Century Camel Skeleton Unearthed in Austria
(Alfred Galik/Vetmeduni Vienna)VIENNA, AUSTRIA—The complete skeleton of a camel dating to the Second Ottoman War of the seventeenth century was ... «Archaeology, 四月 15»
