...impossibilities, the delicate distresses and sentimental perplexities, that came out in five or seven volumes at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, have almost entirely disappeared. Female education, registrations, railways, and a penny post, have...

...seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; and does not even equal those written by our envoy, Colonel Syme, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. It is quite clear that all these Indo-Chinese nations have been rapidly declining these last two hundred...

...banishment of Malte-Brun and the elder Heiberg, had the power to annihilate the literature of Denmark, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Nor, indeed, was this intended by the excellent prince, afterwards Frederick VI., who then governed...

...proceedings was to commence a survey of all the English counties on a uniform plan. The ' Surveys ' were useful at the time in developing more rapidly...of Agriculture took upon itself to suggest, and as iar as possible provide, remedies for the dearth, by collecting information and making reports to the...

...and almost all returned to the Turkish territory. not however produce any effect upon that country. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, Bulgaria was greatly disturbed, and exposed to much suffering, by the well-known Pasvan Oglou, for...

...clamorous charges of fraud, said to have been practised in certain proceedings which took place in the end of the last and beginning of the present century. The preliminary defence involved three points. First, the alienage of the Pursuer; secondly, the vicennial...

...to the leading traits in the art-life of David, the great reformer and master in the French school, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. In this way we may perhaps convey instruction to those who desire to attain distinction in painting,...

...with him have been lost many minute details bearing on the social and commercial aspects of Bristol at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. He married, Nov. 11, 1800, Mary, youngest daughter of Robert Bush, esq. of Bristol, and of Tracy Park,...

...communion began to take root there just at the very worst period in respect of church architecture — at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Latterly, however, with the revived spirit of ecclesiastical architecture in England, we find indications...

...animal system in some way, were really as powerless in the cure of diseases as their predecessors. In the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the expurgation of the Materia Medica from these imaginary specifics had advanced so far, that of the hundreds...