...proportion as society advances, these dreadful visitations become less frequent; and when, as happened here at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, an extraordinary failure of the usual crop, or even a series of such failures, takes place, the people...

...as society advances, these dreadful v I sit at ions become less frequent; and when, as happened here at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, an extraordinary failure of the usual crop, or even a series of such failures, takes place, the people...

...chiefly of observations during his celebrated voyage to the equinoctial parts of the American continent, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, twentyfour years before mine ; the other made by M. Hansteen, and gentlemen who have used instruments...

...proportion as society advances, these dreadful visitations become less frequent; and when, as happened here at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, an extraordinary failure of the usual crop, or even a series of such failures, takes place, the people...

...few years' peace have wrought greater revolutions in Christendom, than twenty years of war effected, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century — with this important difference ; those overturnings were bloody, wicked, ruinous to the bodies...

...infidelity to her faith, than from her faith to infidelity. A great part of the infidelity of France at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, and even now, is, beyond all question, assignable to the inculcated, and believed, and felt identity...

...Philadelphia, in r, '>.'!. Dr. Caldwell taxes us with defective knowledge of the history of medicine at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. The accusation may be well founded; but the only additional sources unknown to us, to which the Doctor...

...however, that this was the condition and standing of the clergy and their sacred office, years gone by ; at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, rather than the present state of the profession now, in 1830. The " fashions of this world pass away,"...

...planted with very marked and favourable results. Even more striking, however, is the case of Egypt, where at the close of the last and beginning of the present century rain was a very rare phenomenon, not falling sometimes once in twelve months. Since that time Mehemet...

...traveller begins here to see the traces of the tremendous struggle which desolated this country twice over at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. The village of Clisson was almost entirely destroyed, and was not rebuilt till some time afterwards. The...