...the various forms and changes of the old bills to the new. Those of Covent Garden and Drury Lane at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present were small, about the size of half a sheet of that letter-paper called Bath post. The paper was thin,...

...learn the new mill hands who applied for work. More than 50 years ago we knew a number of old men who, towards the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present, were employed at Low Mill, some as overlookers, some as mechanics and others as bobbin turners. Mr....

...considerable distances, and with enormous velocity, by means of voltaic currents propagated in metal wires. Towards the end of the last century, and at...beginning of the present, many philosophers proposed to comFig. 438. spond at a distance by means of the effects produced by electrics! machines when propagated...

...had spirits, such as volatile liquids, gases, or even the theoretical conception like phlogiston. At the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present, ideas had already become more sensible. The notion of " fluid " was admitted, a mysterious and somewhat...

...same, and the present state of the Church in Belgium is due, as in France, to events which occurred at the end of the last century, and at the beginning of the present one. These writers assert that the episcopate both in France and Belgium impose an intolerable yoke...

...Arthur Young, a gentleman-farmer, who wrote vigorously against them a hundred years ago. But it was at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present, that the greatest mischief was done : for at that time, the quartern loaf having risen through the...

...education of Charles de Lys, as an English churchman, laid. He combined, as was far more common at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present than it is now, the beliefs and instincts of an evangelical and a high churchman. He was deeply impressed...

...last two about the year 1718. Portman, Manchester, Finsbury, and Fitzroy Squares were constructed at the end of the last century ; and at the beginning of the present century, about 1804, Russell Square, one of the largest in London, was finished, and about this time,...

...grain, as soon as they are sown. Benjamin Vaughan, the translator of "The Rural Socrates," says that at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present gypsum was used largely in the United States, and ho refers to the writings of Judge Peters, Robert...

...considerable distances, and with enormous speed, by means of electric currents propagated in metal wires. Towards the end of the last century, and at...at a distance by means of the effects produced by electric machines when propagated in insulated conducting wires. In 1811 Soemmering invented a telegraph...