...Bolingbroke and other English writers of the eighteenth century ? A remarkable reaction took place at the end of the last and beginning of the present century ; but what was the cause of it ? Was it not, on the one hand, the feelings of horror inspired in all...

...one month's further imprisonment, and finally, banishment from the County for life. No wonder that, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, so loud a demand was made for a reform of our penal laws and amelioration of the cruel system of punishment...

..."It is a square architectural wall monument in that sort of mixed Roman and Grecian style prevalent at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, and was erected to commemorate the death of three infant children. The relievo, which forms the centre...

...an important influence upon the study of mycology ; by it Persoou, a German botanist who flourished at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, was attracted to take up the investigation of the fungi, which he was the first to arrange and classify;...

...increased, with a progression exceeding that of arithmetrical ratio, until in the corresponding period of the end of the last and beginning of the present century the number of such deeds reached 360 ; while the total during the twenty years immediately following —...

...increased, with a progression exceeding that of arithmetrical ratio, until in the corresponding period of the end of the last and beginning of the present century the number of such deeds reached 360; while the total during the twenty years immediately following—from...

...CHAPTER II. ETON— CAMBRIDGE — CHOICE OF A PROFESSION — EARLY FRIENDSHIPS. 1794—1807. OF Eton life at the end of the last and beginning of the present century there is no very exact record. Although the discomforts of Long Chamber, the abuse of the fagging system,...

...between the classical and romantic style in literary art, which engaged the entire european learned world at the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, was finally though somewhat late, perceptible in the Dutch Literature chiefly through the influence...

...Memorials of his Time. ' This volume,' she wrote, ' presents a singular picture of Edinburgh society at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. It is written with much of the " attic salt " which was the prevailing characteristic of that literary...

...annum. A singular record is preserved of the old forest of Glenmore, which was almost wholly felled at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. The forest was purchased by William Osbourne of Hull, of the Duke of Gordon. When it had been entirely...