5 sentences with 'sixteenth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sixteenth and other words derived from it.
• « Li Shizhen (1518-1593) famous Chinese physician of the sixteenth century wrote in his compendium of Materia Medica that the moxa plant has "the function of warming the channels, eliminating cold and dampness? »
• « There were exceptions, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, but beliefs clearly hardened in the course of the sixteenth century: what toleration had existed in the first decades of the Reformation era tended to disappear. »
• « At the same time, in the course of the sixteenth century, rival religious confessions declared more specific and hardened doctrines of belief. »
• « To cite just one example, the price of grain rose by 630% in England over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, driving peasants on the brink of subsistence to even greater despair. »
• « These attitudes began to undergo significant changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mainly as a result of the incredible success of foreign corporations, groups that generated enormous wealth outside the auspices of mercantilist theory. »