...sold at £2 0 0 per ton. 1795 ............... i£2 2 0 1796. ............ ..£3 0 0 Average, £l 7 4 At the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, the price advanced to £5 per ton, and was then at its highest. The following table exhibits the prices...

...notwithstanding the immense erudition bestowed on them by CoteJier, Usher, Pearson, Le Clerc, and others, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Lardner has clearly shewn that all the works of Clement are spurious, except his first Epistle to the...

...than the British. The vast armies formed by French officers in the service of the Nizam and Scindiah, at the end of the- last and beginning of the present century, were in the pay of these princes ; and although Raymond, De Boyne,* and Perron were likely to have...

...neither immediate nor obvious, may sometimes weary those who have been accustomed in their own days, at the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, to such sudden and stupendous events — such decisive conflicts, both in Europe and Asia. To them...

...some of his essays on supposed facts and customs, which never had existence. But the German scholars at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, were no longer satisfied with the work of destroying the credibility of the early Roman history. They...

...Star-chamber persecutors have arisen from the tomb and witnessed the unwarrantable persecutions that existed at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, they would have smiled in sympathy ! The doctrine of constructive treasons was pushed to a dangerous...

...very best standard works of the day were his, and for a quiet provincial naturalist and tradesman, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, must have appeared extravagantly expensive. The following formed only a small part of his library:...

...themselves as descended from the Ten Tribes, ib. See Abyssinia. Gaming — progress and decline of, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, 34 — Watier's club in Piccadilly, and supporters, 35-36 — ' Crockford's,' 36-37 — necessity for...

...themselves as descended from the Ten Tribes, ib. See Abyssinia. Gaming — progress and decline of, at the end of the last and beginning of the present- century, 34 — Watier's club in Piccadilly, and supporters, 35-36 — ' Crockford's,' 36-37— necessity for...

...in developing more rapidly the agricultural resources of the country. During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the Board of Agriculture took upon itself to suggest and, as far as possible, provide remedies for...