| 1834 - 358 pages
...concerto of GIOVANNI MANE GIORNOVICHI, * a violinist who attained great celebrity in Paris and London at the latter part of the last, and beginning of the present century. He was born at Palermo, in 1745, and about 1770 appeared at the Concert Spirituel. In 1782, he was... | |
| William Henry C. Grey - 1835 - 592 pages
...condition! Amid the warfare of opinions, on the policy which directed the machinery of government, during the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century, the liberal party in this country seem to have entirely lost sight of the necessity for maintaining... | |
| James Grant - 1837 - 666 pages
...publisher with a great quantity of manuscript, consisting of anecdotes of the most celebrated wits of the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century. The manuscript was carried in to the bibliopole, who was in his sanctum, by a friend with whom he used... | |
| 1840 - 694 pages
...prevalent system of religion has not been able to counteract the increasing depravity. For a time, during the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century, the ministers of Scotland very generally relinquished the high Calvinistic, or, as it would be called,... | |
| 1848 - 748 pages
...the externals of religion had sunk to so low an ebb throughout the Catholic world, as was the case in the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century, when the most mighty and glorious works of Catholic antiquity were actually regarded as the unsightly productions... | |
| John Struthers - 1850 - 320 pages
...assembled, or rather that assembles, in what was formerly the Relief Meeting-honse, Dovehill, Glasgow, in the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century, who bestowed upon him a college education, though he had destined him to be a cotton lord. In furtherance... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1851 - 428 pages
...hollow formed beneath was so considerable that the smugglers who abounded in this neighbourhood in the latter part of the last, and beginning of the present century, frequently employed it as a receptacle for their contraband goods. It is said that when the clue to... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1851 - 388 pages
...hollow formed beneath was so considerable that the smugglers who abounded in this neighbourhood in the latter part of the last, and beginning of the present century, frequently employed it as a receptacle for their contraband goods. It is said that when the clue to... | |
| Charles Rogers - 1853 - 490 pages
...Ochtertyre, the property of the Right Honourable Sir David Dundas. The proprietor of Ochtertyre, in the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century, was John Ramsay, a friend and patron of Burns. Ramsay was a considerable writer, and to eminent knowledge... | |
| 1858 - 798 pages
...the true origin of this phrase arose from certain coins in the United States similar to our tokens in the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century. These coins bore the figures of various animals, but most commonly of a hog. " To go the whole hog,"... | |
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