 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1885 - 442 pàgines
...of the exhibition of water-colour drawings of John and William Joy, illustrative of England's navy at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, went far to show that connoisseurs are not restricted solely to the fashionable parts of Bond Street... | |
 | 1885 - 816 pàgines
...of gas used can be accurately read off. 2. Nitrogen. We are in possession of two monographs written at the end of the last and beginning of the present century on the action and use of nitrogen, one of which, by Wintrop Saltonstall, does not rise above the region... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1885 - 130 pàgines
...Coleridge, who, as JS Mill has remarked, were the two leading minds in philosophical thought in England, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, there occurs a break in the tradition. Bentham's powerful but partial treatment of Ethic, from a law-reformer's... | |
 | 1885 - 434 pàgines
...of the exhibition of water-colour drawings of John and William Joy, illustrative of England's navy at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, went far to show that connoisseurs are not restricted solely to the fashionable parts of Bond Street... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1886 - 306 pàgines
...the elder, "there is no duty in the case ; it was taken oS glass by the late Act." HE WOULD NOT DINE. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, few of the great London merchants (says Boyd) had their private residences in the West End. They lived... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, William Anderson - 1886 - 672 pàgines
...talented book illustrator. He drew innumerable sketches for guide-books, historical works, and novels, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, before the publication of the Hokiisai Mangwa. Amongst many volumes containing his sketches may be... | |
 | Ernest Belfort Bax - 1886 - 460 pàgines
...primitive theocratic civilisations of the Oriental world, of Egypt and Asia. The view largely prevalent, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, was that these social organisations were the surviving monuments of a high primitive culture. In the... | |
 | Entomological Society of London (1833-1933) - 1886 - 670 pàgines
...Entomology, and some of whose papers appeared in the ' Transactions ' of our Linnean Society quite at the end of the last, and beginning of the present, century. He was related by marriage to M. Planchon, the wellknown Professor of Botany at Montpellier. If I mistake... | |
 | 1886 - 228 pàgines
...Library, the property of Mr. JE Severne, MP, which has just been dispersed at Sotheby's, was formed at the end of the last and beginning of the present century by Mr. Michael Wodhull, the translator of Euripides. He was born at Thenford on the 15th of August,... | |
 | William Henry Long - 1886 - 192 pàgines
...celebrity, as " Bendozer " is a palpable corruption of the name Mendoza, borne by a noted Jew pugilist, at the end of the last, and beginning of the present, century. In the older MS. of the play, before quoted, instead of " King George" fighting the " Noble Captain,"... | |
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During the years of scarcity, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century... 
