As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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In fact, he actually emphasized a concept that was first stated by a French philosopher Louis Blanc in the mid-nineteenth century.

事实上，他特别看重,一个由法国哲学家路易·勃朗,在十九世纪中期,率先提出的概念。

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Amsterdam, by mid-seventeenth century, by 1650, increases to 150,000 people.

阿姆斯特丹,到十七世纪中叶 也就是1650年,人口增长至十五万

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