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Johnson had no trouble finding fairly exact counterparts in his London of the eighteenth century for many of the blights of Juvenal's ancient Rome, but there was really nothing to match the horror of the amateur poetry reading in Trajan's time; the closest analogy Johnson could come up with, an elegant one under the circumstances, is his “female atheist.”
Found throughout Mexico, retablos date from the middle of the eighteenth century in New Mexico.
"Scholars," Grafton explains, "have placed the birth of the footnote in the twelfth century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, and the nineteenth--never without good reason but usually without attending to the other chapters in this story."
First were the Mexican Spaniards who settled the region in the eighteenth century and their descendents, called Californios, who represented the California Spanish traditions that Espinosa most wanted to study.
By the late eighteenth century, the Catholic Church forbade additional burials inside churches, supposedly for public health reasons, but the ricos, the well-to-do, continued to buy their way into the churches.