seventeenth

• The prospect was encouraging; there was no doubt at all of the elasticity of the Articles: to take a palmary instance, the seventeenth was assumed by one party to be Lutheran, by another Calvinistic, though the two interpretations were contradictory of each other; why then should not other Articles be drawn up with a vagueness of an equally intense character? —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• The prospect was encouraging; there was no doubt at all of the elasticity of the Articles: to take a palmary instance, the seventeenth was assumed by one party to be Lutheran, by another Calvinistic, though the two interpretations were contradictory to each other; why then should not other Articles be drawn up with a vagueness of an equally intense character? —  Apologia pro Vita Sua
• Then the telescope will reveal stars still fainter and fainter, down to what we term the seventeenth or eighteenth magnitudes, or even lower still. —  Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
• And now the seventeenth was here, to-day. —  V. V.'s Eyes
• His imagination was so wide and his pen so facile that he has been called a seventeenth-century prose Shakespeare. —  Halleck's New English Literature

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