1600s

After the 1600s, the discourse on affects becomes confused with musical rhetoric: think of the first list of musicorhetorical figures published by Burmeister (1599), […]

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However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.

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Beer as a cocktail ingredient isn’t a revolutionary idea. It’s long played a part in drinkmaking. The original flips, concocted in the late 1600s, were made with beer, rum, sugar and whole egg, and served hot.

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Among Professor Spence’s most ambitious books was “The Search for Modern China,” which made The New York Times’s best-seller list and is now a standard text. It took an 876-page view of China’s history from the decline of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s to the democracy movement of 1989.

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