 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pàgines
...record, the Eolipile of Hero, also gave this motion in the most direct and simple manner ; but it was not till the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth ecntury, that Hero's machine was thought of for use on the large scale. Men's minds seemed confined... | |
 | Tighe Hopkins - 1899 - 370 pàgines
...the hours in vogue in Paris at the present day were universally adopted among the upper classes at the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century. The old dinner became the modern dejeuner, and supper was transformed into dinner. Observe, however,... | |
 | William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - 1903 - 450 pàgines
...1768, " is great resort ; and it is said that one much more considerable has dwindled to this." But by the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century, it seems to have died out altogether, and has not since been revived. Manors. — In Laindon parish... | |
 | 1901 - 458 pàgines
...contained in the Gul-i-Rdana, " charming rose," of Lachmi Naraydn, who flourished in Hyderabad about the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century. This author informs us, under the article of Mohsaa Fani, that " Mohsan, a native of Kachmir, was a... | |
 | George Frederick Abbott - 1903 - 388 pàgines
...inhabitants are colonists from Thessaly, who, according to a local tradition, migrated into Macedonia at the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century, and brought with them the hereditary industry for which their old home was famous. Early travellers... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1905 - 720 pàgines
...Reformation, the liberation of one-half the Western AVorld from Papal domination, marks a great epoch, lint, then, it is overlooked that many -of the fruits of...history of political institutions, the age of Simon of Montfort, of St. Louis, and of the interregnum, therefore, marks a greater epoch than that of Luther.... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 760 pàgines
...this punishment was prescribed by the criminal code of Charles V., side by side with drowning.0 Until the end of the eighteenth, or the beginning of the nineteenth, century, infanticide was a capital crime everywhere in Europe, except in Russia.10 Then, under the influence... | |
 | Willem Roosegaarde Bisschop - 1910 - 292 pàgines
...frequently originates in the most insignificant circumstance, we may quote the following story, dating from the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century : "Old Mr. Fuller (Fuller, Banbury & Co.), of Cornhill, belonged to that very old-fashioned, prim class... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1911 - 374 pàgines
...coarseness. The truth is that periodical writing, already to some degree purified by Addison, from the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century showed itself amenable to the same wholesome influences which, as has been pointed out by Mr. Andrew... | |
 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1912 - 88 pàgines
...from the member's ordinary place, and probably refers to the House of Commons as it existed towards the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century. But it would have applied to the House at a much later date. Last August Mr. Lloyd George gave a concrete... | |
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... (Roberts Vaux, Notices, 21, quoted in Teeters, 1937, 24). This practice was abolished practically everywhere at the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century. The public exhibition of prisoners was maintained in France in 1831,... 
