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 artistic finish to Thomas... Summer Session - Stran 34avtor: University of California (1868-1952) - 1903Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Thomas Henry Briggs, Lotus Delta Coffman - 1911 - 336 strani
...published in Germany in 1776 by Frederick Eberhard Rochow. Among other readers which appeared during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century were : Lindlay Murray 's English Reader, published in London in 1799, which had its lessons "classified... | |
| 1903 - 1038 strani
...holiness no man can see the Lord. All in all, Rowland Hill was England's most conspicuous preacher during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The heart of the man is most completely revealed in his frequent observation, "The best of living is... | |
| Arthur Donald Innes - 1915 - 672 strani
...superseded the old laborious haulage by wagons, and the country was covered with a network of canals.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... | |
| Frederic C. Howe - 1915 - 418 strani
...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... | |
| Daniel Gregory Mason - 1915 - 754 strani
...considerably later, after other works in other styles had been performed. The sonatas and symphonies of the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries in the main lacked any logical principle of unity. We say in the main, because Emanuel Bach,... | |
| Alfred Marshall - 1919 - 936 strani
...of British industries was on similar lines ; for, as we have seen, the leaders of those industries in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries were mostly nigged men, with a much narrower outlook than that of most of the later leaders... | |
| George Richard Chatburn - 1921 - 406 strani
...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... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1921 - 332 strani
...We find ourselves, for instance, trying to account for the great shifting in pronunciation between the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century in words of the " er " and " ar " type. Why did " sarvice," " vartue," " sarmon " die out, and " Derby,"... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1921 - 696 strani
...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... | |
| Charles Frederick Hannaford - 1923 - 216 strani
...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... | |
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