...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and...

...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and...

...vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and...

...spiritual. Just as in this same matter, the recoil from the cold, dry, common-sense mode of thought of the last quarter of the eighteenth, and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, threw men's minds towards the romanticism of Scott, the naturalism of Wordsworth, and the glow of Byron,...

...highly civilized nations has been increased in certain periods of extraordinary development, as during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, by the invention of new arts and the introduction of machinery, there is not the slightest reason to...

...tracing the beginnings of that reaction against the artificial poetry of Pope which is the glory of the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries. There is also too little reason why a book which gives chapters to the poetry of Scott and...

...tirst three-quarters of the eighteenth century, the wages of the labourer were again depressed during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, when the old rates con inued, and wheat kept rising ; for the average price between 1801...

...which the masses had wrested from the old semi-feudal aristocracy — was practically achieved during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. By the third decade of the nineteenth century, not only the economic but the social and political forces...

...responsible for it ; but in greater part I believe it was due to the transcendentalism and sentimentalism of the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, which had created false and pernicious opinions concerning personal character and conduct. There was...

...first threequarters of the eighteenth century, the wages of the labourer were again depressed during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, when the old rates continued, and wheat kept rising; for the average price between 1801...