 | 1864 - 862 ページ
...the name of a brisk dance, of French origin, performed by eight persons. It was common in Scotland at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, continuing fashionable till superseded by the quadrille, whicli is only a new variety of the cotillon.... | |
 | Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge - 1865 - 338 ページ
...Sacrament, printed within borders, imperfect 2Amo. in 1 vol. 2471 French Chap-Books, mostly issued at Troyes at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, many duplicates . 18mo. and smaller, a parcel 2472 Frend (W.) Two Addresses, St. Ives, 1788-89, with... | |
 | 1865 - 496 ページ
...distress. These are only a few instances out of many which occurred during his long life. Caithness was, at the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, one of the least improved and most uncultivated counties of Scotland. It remained nearly in the rude... | |
 | 1868 - 854 ページ
...under-petticoat), the name of a brisk dance, of French origin, performed by eight persons. It was common in ScoUand at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, continuing fashionable till superseded by the quadrille, which is only a new variety of the cotillon.... | |
 | 1868 - 1022 ページ
...avoided by assuming the independent attitude and occupying the lofty position of the older writers. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, for example, it was no doubt the intention of such chemists as Macquer, Lavoisier, Davy, and Th6nard... | |
 | Amos Dean - 1869 - 652 ページ
...From these different sources a new desire was awakened for an elder and severer style of architecture. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, war and political agitation prevailed to such an extent, as to prove extremely unfavorable to the progress... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1870 - 868 ページ
...subjected, as described by Dr. Willard, is only to be compared with their worst treatment in Europe at the end of the last and beginning of the present century." Every philanthropist will gladly witness as many such reproaches, and as bitter ones as may be necessary... | |
 | Mark Boyd - 1871 - 410 ページ
...the ass was Missing ! " 140. "Then, John, I shall not dine with you to-day, you may depend upon it." At the end of the last and beginning of the present century few of the great London merchants had their private residences in the West End. They lived chiefly... | |
 | Ellis A. Davidson - 1872 - 164 ページ
...and the other two generally at right angles to this. Rustic quoins were much used in brick buildings at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Rustic work is a mode of building in imitation of simple nature, rather than allowing the work to have... | |
 | William Chambers - 1872 - 364 ページ
...the History of the Roman Republic, who had lived at Hallyards, in the parish of Manor, Peeblesshire, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. From his acquaintance with the Fergusons, Scott, when travelling to Carlisle in 1797, paid a passing... | |
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During the years of scarcity, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century... 
