...superseded the old laborious haulage by wagons, and the country was covered with a network of canals. In the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the main roads at least were improved past recognition. But the time was at hand when canals in their...

...to its needs as during the generation which followed the development of factory industry in England in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries. Doctor Albert Shaw has described the conditions of the British city of the later mediaeval...

...the way while others followed with poles to pry the carriage from the numerous mud holes encountered. In the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries road building received considerable impetus. This has resulted in fine paved roads throughout...

...government had not been born. The group of poets that was the glory of England and Scotland during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century arose under an oligarchy, and were the harbingers rather than the harvest of political freedom. This...

...towards modern deposit banking, which was then only in its infancy. The history of country banking during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century does not make very pleasant reading. The war with France and the panic of 1825 produced successive...

...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...

...child-nature and method as well as of subject-matter as prerequisites to teaching was formulated in Europe in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, this philosophy did not begin to influence American thought to any extent until some time...

...in due course. The country clergyman of 1799 may be taken as a type of his class at any time during the last quarter of the eighteenth, and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Individual specimens lingered on into our own age; but as the prevailing species they went out with...

...Administrative Barriers to Good Hoods 241 complained of, and, despite the vast increase of the tolls in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the debt in which many of the trusts were involved was unaccountable to those who did not know the...

...Parliamentary Debates, 1831, v, p. 1035. complained of, and, despite the vast increase of the tolls in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the debt in which many of the trusts were involved was unaccountable to those who did not know the...