...it may be doubted whether the political comedy is not a degenerate form. In the other writers of the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth absolutely no advance is made, indeed they may be said to relapse into conventional imitation of Molière....

...obliterated. Nothing will be censured as wild or extravagant which approves itself to be true. IV. DURING the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century there was a revival of Romanticism. Shallow philosophy and formal poetry were no longer adequate...

...century, on behalf of the mercantile interest and at the expense of the general public. During the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century the condition of the English workman was appalling. The wage* of all workmen were fixed by...

...indebted for many of the most active, worthy and useful men that labored in her vineyards during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth. Of course no individual pastor, burdened with the cares of one or, sometimes, many congregations, whatever...

...feeling, since predominant in our literature, the writings of Charles Lamb, whose life occupies the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth, are a transition ; and such union of grave, of terrible even, with gay, we may note in the circumstances...

...the French Revolution of 1789, are largely and unmistakably represented in the English poetry of the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth ; and it will be observed that the first division of the following Songs of Freedom is made to cover...

...the style of Wedgwood and in various bodies. A dozen other Staffordshire potters, belonging to the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth, might be named as having worked under the direct influence of the inventions and improvements introduced...

...impelling cause of the beginnings of our State Geological Surveys in the United States. The closing quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century marked the beginning of the modern school of geological thought. This period saw the gradual...

...glory in this particular. That this speech was the prevailing literary vogue in England during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century is shown by the concurrent testimony of Sheridan, Walker and Smart, the leading English lexicographers...

...President and Vice-President of the State had to belong to this " Council " in order to be eligible. The last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth com1 The same favored class whose right, as we have seen, was to choose State seuators. Supra, page...