...engage in other occupations, often not very consistent with the dignity of a learned profession. About the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, it was not unusual to find the Schoolmaster the auctioneer and land-surveyor of the district, and to...

...of manufactures, of commerce, and of navigation; of which the Prussians have had no part, but since the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present. This is not the place to make an exact and general table of the Prussian manufactures; 1 shall, therefore,...

...the direction of the government of Spain by Don Jose del Rio and Don Ventura de Barcaiztequi, near the close of the last century and the beginning of the present, the real magnitude of this island was imperfectly ascertained, and was usually overrated. It has been...

...by! ere the folly, ambition and ferocity of the few, open such a school for the many, as we all know the close of the last century and the beginning of the present afforded — may we be eternally grateful to the many who took high degrees there and especially thankful...

...deserved fame.' It was only with the growth of purer and more Catholic principles of criticism towards the close of the last century and the beginning of the present, that the popular verdict was affirmed and the Pilgrim's Progress registered among the choicest English...

...by day." He was twice married, and died in 1826, his second wife surviving him nine years. " Towards the close of the last century and the beginning of the present," says a notice of the present work, " there was a small print shop to be seen in the Parliament House...

...has said, in his quaint manner, of a peculiar kind of preaching which prevailed, as he conceives, at the close of the last century and the beginning of the present — ' Too often, they who came to us for the milk of the Word, found nothing but the dry husk of didactic...

...has said, in his quaint manner, of a peculiar kind of preaching which prevailed, as he conceives, at the close of the last century and the beginning of the present, — " Too often, they who came to us for the milk of the word, found nothing but the dry husk of didactic...

...superior to any other ecclesiastical body, in point of merit, as well as of consideration in society. The close of the last century and the beginning of the present furnished a memorable illustration of this remark. What a spectacle did the French clergy exhibit,...

...the outset, it is necessary next to advert to the leading facts of the history of the church. About the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, it was in a condition far from prosperous. At that period the spirit of the system had waxed feeble....