...Portraits sketched from the life, 143 portraits of the principal authors, physicians, artists, actors, &c. at the close of the last and commencement of the present century, engraved by \V. Duniell in the style of the original drawings, folio ha(f morocco, £2 12s Gd 735 Ditto,...

...reasons, these reasons called forth replies, and thus the subject became matter of public controversy. At the close of the last and commencement of the present century, the Rev. Drs. Lotto, and Anderson occupied the field. The last edition of Dr. Anderson's very full...

...confines his attention to small communities: for they, loo, may have successors to be benefited hy llie picture of their vicissitudes. No excuse, therefore,...without allowing them any share in the proceeds of tuition. There is a vis inertia; in mind as well as in matter, and the best men acknowledge (hat, to...

...originated the improvements and inventions of all the presse-arteres which were so highly extolled in France at the close of the last and commencement of the present century.* The invention of instruments of this * " Aneurisms of various arteries have been cured by the steady...

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...its sphere of usefulness. The historian of nations deems it his duty not only to record alternations of prosperity and misfortune, glory and disgrace;...without allowing them any share in the proceeds of tuition. There is a vis inertias in mind as well as in matter, and the best men acknowledge that, to...

...deficiency of any kind be perceptible. That a better average taste is now established among us, than that at the close of the last and commencement of the present century, we do not deny : still it falls greatly short of what it might and would be had it been allowed to...

...deficiency of any kind be perceptible. That a better average taste is now established among us, than that at the close of the last and commencement of the present century, we do not deny ; still it falls greatly short of what it might and would be had it been allowed to...

...commerce, and of mercantile letters and correspondence. Among the Italian writers on maritime law, at the close of the last and commencement of the present century, we may also rank MDA Azuni, who was judge in the maritime and commercial court of Nice, and whose work...

...collection of some select passages from the speeches of those distinguished Irish orators, who lived at the close of the last, and commencement of the present century. Grattan, Sheridan, Curran and Phillips, are most frequently quoted from; and we must do the compiler...