 | 1806 - 616 pages
...progressive, and whatever of folly, of luxury, or of the evils of misguided1 ambition, may have designated the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, the most carping cynical admirer of the days that are past, must concede that a Jenner and a Greathead... | |
 | 1823 - 302 pages
...fine gentlemen, I repeat, are by no means confined to the army. There are some to be found in almost every department; though they are not so frequent...minds as unfurnished as those of their valets, or theh» chambermaids. They could scarcely write a card or letter on the most 2A3 270; WINTER EVENINGS:'... | |
 | 1854 - 734 pages
...Russia, and was annexed, as the Americans would Bay, in 1792; — How that decline continued through the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, while Europe was unhappily engaged" in quarrels which rendered it blind to the designs of Russia ;... | |
 | Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - 712 pages
...Corresponding Member of the Agricultural Society of Koningsberg, and of tlie Horticultural Society of Maryland. THE close of the last century and the commencement of the present, were marked by considerable advances in the science of agriculture. To this very desirable march of... | |
 | 1848 - 660 pages
...infidelity arose, until it became fashionable, and reputable to a man's understanding, to be a sceptic. The close of the last century, and the commencement of the present, was an important crisis in the history of the world. Designing and deluded men attempted to create... | |
 | 1847 - 652 pages
...all the present immense debts of Europe are the result of the wars that raged throughout Europe at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present. In the course of twenty years the debts of many of the countries accumulated beyond their ability to... | |
 | National association for the protection of British industry and capital - 1849 - 56 pages
...of England were not half what they now are. [Cheers.] During the whole of the revolutionary war, at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present one, when Englishmen had to fight for their lives, their liberties, and their homes, is it not a fact... | |
 | Adolphus Mordecai Hart - 1853 - 308 pages
...the cause of colonization, to the north-west of the Mississippi, be indebted, for its progress toward the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, to any class of men in particular, it is to the hunters and trappers, voyageurs, who in spite of difficulty... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 pages
...exertions, and point out to them the path to success and glory. It was singularly thus with England during the close of the last century and the commencement of the present. When her very existence, in a political sense, was threatened with destruction — when her national... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...memoirs of a man who played a far from unimportant part in the events which agitated Europe during the close of the last century and the commencement of the present. Regarding them dispassionately, and with the light thrown upon them by other writers, we have no reason... | |
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Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present... 
