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" Surveys' are many of them imperfectly executed, but they were useful at the time, in developing more rapidly the agricultural resources of the country. During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the... "
Old and New Nottingham - Page 259
by William Howie Wylie - 1853 - 374 pages
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Catalogue of the Important and Valuable Library of the Late George Offor

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge - Bible - 1865 - 338 pages
...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...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1865 - 496 pages
...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...
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The English Cyclopaedia

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 520 pages
...in developing more rapidly the agricultural resources of the country. During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the Board of Agriculture took upon itself to suggest and, as far as possible, provide remedies for...
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Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 1

Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 532 pages
...in developing more rapidly the agricultural resources of the country. During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the Board of Agriculture took upon itself to suggest and, as far as possible, provide remedies for...
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Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1890 - 460 pages
...written or collected by, that celebrated antiquary, Archdeacon Payne, who was rector of the parish at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. The only regret was that a day or two could not be spent there to properly examine them. The visitors...
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...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, which is only a new variety of the cotillon....
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The History of Civilization, Volume 7

Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...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...
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Old and New, Volume 1

Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1870 - 868 pages
...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...
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Reminiscences of Fifty Years

Mark Boyd - 1871 - 400 pages
...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...
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Drawing for stonemasons

Ellis A. Davidson - 1872 - 164 pages
...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...
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