 | Robert Brydall - 1889 - 502 pages
...fought at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; Raeburn's first Lord Melville, Lords Hailes and Kames ; &c., &c. At the close of the last and beginning of the present century several private collections of works by the old masters were formed in Scotland. At Hopetoun House,... | |
 | 1892 - 438 pages
...Lodges, and the like, derive much light from the minutes and proceedings of Masonic bodies in existence at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. "Salopian Lodge, No. 1," was opened at the "sign of the Fox," July 3rd, 1788, the Rev. FH Egerton being... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland - 1898 - 560 pages
...cases with great harshness. This was especially true during the long and bloody struggle with France at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, and for a few subsequent years, until a rising public discontent with political prosecutions began... | |
 | Albert Sutton - 1898 - 92 pages
...being a Brief History of Lodge of Antiquity, No. 178, with References to other Lodges in the Borough, at the Close of the Last, and Beginning of the Present Century ; 2 plates in gold and colours, 8vo, cloth gilt, 53 6d " Wigan, 1882 1180 BULLOCK (Rev. R.) Geography... | |
 | Jane Frances Mary Carter - 1899 - 268 pages
...Society — Alexander Knox — HJ Rose — The British Magazine. IN reading the lives of Churchmen at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, one is continually struck by the tone of depression and dryness of spirit. They appear lonely, isolated,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 354 pages
...passage must appear to us, it reflects an estimate of the Sonnets which seems to have been largely held at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. In 1800 a writer in the Monthly Review, reviewing Mr. Chalmers's " Apology " for the believers in the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1925 - 420 pages
...passage must appear to us, it reflects an estimate of the Sonnets which seems to have been largely held at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. In 1800 a writer in the Monthly Review, reviewing Mr. Chalmers's Apology for the believers in the Ireland... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1925 - 420 pages
...passage must appear to us, it reflects an estimate of the Sonnets which seems to have been largely held at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. In 1800 a writer in the Monthly Review, reviewing Mr. Chalmers's Apo/ogy for the believers in the Ireland... | |
 | 1868 - 940 pages
...colonization of the American Continent. Most of the colonies planted here became independent nations at the clo.se of the last and beginning of the present century. Our own country embraces communities which at one period were colonies of Great Britain, France, Spain,... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1867 - 474 pages
...hypothesis has played a prominent part in many schemes of world-making that have long since been forgotten. At the close of the last and beginning of the present century, two rival schools of geology sprung up under the names of Wernerian and Huttoniaii. The founder of... | |
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Such was the condition of things with regard to this, and most other farm implements, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, or till within the last forty or fifty years. 
