 | Congregational churches - 1807 - 612 pages
...witnessing any remarkable deviation from the ordinary course of Providence. But now a new era is commencing. The close of the last, and the opening of the present century exhibit strungc and astonishing things. Principles and achievements, revolutions and designs, events... | |
 | Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...TOM BELCHER. i 1 1 1 . 1 1 engaged on the bright galaxy of fistic heroes whicli Bristol produced at the close of the last, and the opening of the present, century, we will take, though a trifle out of the order of strict chronology, the career of TOM [ BELCHES, many... | |
 | Charles Frederick Henningsen - France - 1848 - 462 pages
...measure it by the standard of Great Britain. The inference to which a perusal of European history at the close of the last and the opening of the present century might have led, that the moral and material resources of France render her a match for the combined... | |
 | William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - English literature - 1852 - 488 pages
...KA1IBEK. THE name of Kund Lyne Rahbek is connected inseparably with the literature of Denmark, during the close, of the last, and the opening of the present century. For fifty years of that time, he was actively and influentially at work in it. But Rahbek is a very... | |
 | John Strang - Clubs - 1856 - 622 pages
...worthiest of our citizens. Here it is, as it was often sung to the air of the " Humours of Glen," at the close of the last and the opening of the present century : — " Let proud politicians, in vain disputation, Contend about matters they don't understand, Fall... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 pages
...should never have been able to give full scope to the great mechanical inventions brought forth towards the close of the last, and the opening of the present century ; we should have been debarred from taking rank as the great engineers and engine-makers for the rest... | |
 | Catherine Maria Fanshawe - English poetry - 1865 - 82 pages
...but intimately united by a common love of literature and art and science, which existed in London at the close of the last and the opening of the present century, and which, perhaps, "taken for all in all," has never been surpassed. W. HARNESS. KENSINGTON GOBI,... | |
 | Charles Grey - Biography - 1867 - 520 pages
...the account of this, as well as the other events of that year, must be reserved for another volume. APPENDICES APPENDIX A. REMINISCENCES OF THE KING OF...French Revolutionary War ; his father commanded a corps towards its close ; while his uncle Leopold, after greatly distinguishing himself in the latter campaigns... | |
 | Charles Grey (hon.) - 1867 - 520 pages
...the account of this, as well as the other events of that year, must be reserved for another volume. APPENDICES. APPENDIX A. REMINISCENCES OF THE KING...French Revolutionary War ; his father commanded a corps towards its close ; while his uncle Leopold, after greatly distinguishing himself in the latter campaigns... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1868 - 330 pages
...intimately united by a common love of literature, and art, and science, which existed in London at the close of the last and the opening of the present century, and which perhaps, ' ' taken for all in all," has never been surpassed.' * In Miss Berry's Life, and... | |
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Yet his immediate ancestors for two, if not three generations, had been so mixed up with the stirring events which marked the close of the last and the opening of the present century... 
