...progressive, and whatever of folly, of luxury, or of the evils of misguided1 ambition, may have designated the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, the most carping cynical admirer of the days that are past, must concede that a Jenner and a Greathead...

...department; though they are not so frequent in this country, as they were before the Spectators appeared. At the close of the last century, and the commencement of the present, your very fine gentlemen considered learning as a disgrace, and with fine estates, fine clothes, fine...

...department ; though they are not so frequent in this country as they were before the Spectators appeared. At the close of the last century, and the commencement of the present, your very fine gentlemen considered learning as a disgrace, and with fine estates, fine clothes, fine...

...Russia, and was annexed, as the Americans would Bay, in 1792; — How that decline continued through the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, while Europe was unhappily engaged" in quarrels which rendered it blind to the designs of Russia ;...

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...Corresponding Member of the Agricultural Society of Koningsberg, and of tlie Horticultural Society of Maryland. THE close of the last century and the commencement of the present, were marked by considerable advances in the science of agriculture. To this very desirable march of...

...infidelity arose, until it became fashionable, and reputable to a man's understanding, to be a sceptic. The close of the last century, and the commencement of the present, was an important crisis in the history of the world. Designing and deluded men attempted to create...

...all the present immense debts of Europe are the result of the wars that raged throughout Europe at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present. In the course of twenty years the debts of many of the countries accumulated beyond their ability to...

...of England were not half what they now are. [Cheers.] During the whole of the revolutionary war, at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present one, when Englishmen had to fight for their lives, their liberties, and their homes, is it not a fact...

...the cause of colonization, to the north-west of the Mississippi, be indebted, for its progress toward the close of the last century and the commencement of the present, to any class of men in particular, it is to the hunters and trappers, voyageurs, who in spite of difficulty...