What was life like for an intelligent, highly educated wealthy woman in mid-eighteenth-century Britain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore] Reference

Like those of other mid-eighteenth-century American artists, West's colonial portraits resemble the modest examples available to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

The man was given immunity in exchange for the stone, and now it rested sixty-four miles from Boston, by mid-eighteenth-century standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Best Highway] Reference

The map indicated that the location of the mid-eighteenth-century governor's mansion was a now a grassy area between two sidewalks in front of Dahlgren Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naval Maneuvers] Reference

During the early part of the afternoon session we spent some time looking at some line drawings by the mid-eighteenth-century anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [I, Hippopotamus] Reference

As Gerald Newman observes, Britain sought to see itself and its citizens in national and secular terms rather than in religious or tribal ones during the mid-eighteenth-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos] Reference

See Lockhart (1958 and 1993) for events in early - and mid-eighteenth-century Iran involving the Hotak Ghalzi and Nadir Shah Ashar that form a combined prelude to the rise of the Durrani empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference

Its construction features suggest it was built between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812; a late eighteenth-century bottle and mid-eighteenth-century lead-glazed earthenware support this date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short-lived Ship] Reference

The pinks, purples, and lime greens that rose and fell in popularity throughout the century, colors often associated with style and taste in mid-eighteenth-century France, exhibit the same brilliance and liveliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Given the Atlantic Ocean and mid-eighteenth-century limits on communication and travel, I doubt very much that the Europeans had any particularly good insights, even if their Confederate bond market left good records.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Were the Chances the South Would Win?] Reference

Just as the individualist ethos of Robinson Crusoe grabbed the American imaginary from the mid-eighteenth-century onwards, a conception of written constitutionalism similar to the one promulgated by Crusoe's author took root on American soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

I never did publish any of that work, but I was, at the time, working on something that had crystallized as a study of the cultural and artistic delineation of physical space in descriptions of late-seventeenth- and early- to mid-eighteenth-century London, and turning that back onto physical space again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

(late-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth-century), here the bawdy meaning would reinforce Chloe's enthusiasm for physical pleasures and spotlight what we learn later, that she seems to be supporting Strephon financially.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_] Reference

Beginning with the debate on the soul in England, in which political and religious concerns were intertwined, and ending with the eruption of materialism onto the public stage in mid-eighteenth-century France, Ann Thomson looks at attempts to explain how the material brain thinks without the need for an immaterial and immortal soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754), the two great mid-eighteenth-century novelists.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Literature] Reference