...exception. Without this portentious institution of standing armies, would the great revolutionary wars which at the end of the last and beginning of the present century desolated Europe — which cost ner the lives of two millions of her sons, and two thousand six hundred...

...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...

...brother, an oflicer in the navy, and who in return composed this poetic epistle. 11 It was a popular song at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, and was one which Goldsmith is said to have relished highly. WD HOYLË. THE lÏEGiitENTAL KETTLES OF...

...Quentin Durward,' a book I have not read. F. ADAMS. 105, Albany H<m J, Camberirell. NOBTHALLBRTON. — At the end of the last and beginning of the present century spurs, among sporting men, frequently went by the паше of Northallertons, because, as it has been...

...intelligence, and which were confined to one particular district. During the years of scarcity in England, 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...

...in developing more rapidly tiii- aurirultural 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 ilscif to suggest and, as far as possible, provide remedies for...

...paid by the treasury, as were also those of all the other scientific and literary envoys. About Uiis time, too, the booksellers of Denmark began to cater...power to annihilate the literature of Denmark, at the eud of the last and beginning of the present century. Nor, indeed, was this intended by the excellent...

...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...

...the superiority of the spoke-wheel cart and its improved form and construction, that a very few years at the end of the last and beginning of the present century effected an entire revolution in the carrying department of the farm, and substituted the present light...