| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 strani
...the begin"• ning of this century, or even so late as 1745, 1 Vol. vp 1. in Scotland and Ireland. " would have been the parents of a numerous and " healthy...particularly noticed with regard to Switzerland, and have in consequence made the difference greater than it really is. 1 The general inference on this... | |
| Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 strani
...communications by my friends, or from the county surveys, and other works, published either towards the end of the last or the beginning of the present century. Of the surveys, that of Kilkenny, Air. Tighe, appears on this head to be copious and correct. Those... | |
| Nathaniel MORREN - 1813 - 132 strani
...can well be conceived. tion? But I will go back even to a period antecedent to the year 1833. Take the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, before there was that general revival and spread of evangelical religion which took place about twenty... | |
| 1839 - 826 strani
...a straight line, or a very eccentric ellipse ; that an apparent maximum of distance was attained in the end of the last or the beginning of the present century ; and that, about twenty years hence, the stars will probably be seen very near each other, or in apparent... | |
| John Gordon Lorimer - 1841 - 648 strani
...influence of evangelical religion. Surely no one acquainted with Scotland can imagine that there was in the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, as great a thirst for sound and devotional theology as we have seen to prevail at the present day.... | |
| Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 1847 - 516 strani
...xvii., cap. xxxvi.) Next to the Abernethies, a family of Gordons were proprietors of Rothiemay till the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, when it was purchased by Ogilvie, whose son sold it to William Lord Braco, father of the present THE... | |
| 1850 - 418 strani
...into a straight line or very excentric ellipse ; that an apparent maximum of distance was attained in the end of the last or the beginning of the present century ; and that about twenty years hence the stars will probably be seen very near each other, or in apparent... | |
| George Hogarth - 1851 - 400 strani
...Several other composers for the Italian stage, whose names are worthy of commemoration, flourished at the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, and filled up the interval between Cimarosa and Rossini. Simone Mayer, though a German, passed his... | |
| 1853 - 222 strani
...city. Certain modern tourists, merely following Du Paty, Kotzebue, and Madame de Stael, who wrote at the end of the last or the beginning of the present century, have been guilty of error and of injustice in describing this city as still swarming with lazy half-naked... | |
| 1855 - 802 strani
...all that was really new and valuable in the Noctes when first published to the world. Going back to the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, a very decided confliction of opinion existed on the subject of literary criticism. One set of critics... | |
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