| Andrew Betts Brown - 1807 - 424 pages
...since engineering began to be recognised and followed as a regular profession. At a period so recent as the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, the greatest engineering works were planned, and the most important mechanical improvements were devised,... | |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1889 - 1070 pages
...It was not, however, that the pig was overlooked at the time of the great agricultural revolution, at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The pioneers of improved farming could scarcely fail to be dissatisfied with their swine, and they seem... | |
| 1842 - 546 pages
...become an historical name on account of its long struggle against the forces of Ali Pasha of Janina, at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The political condition of Epirus, or Southern Albania, previous to that epoch, was very peculiar. The... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 pages
...become an historical name on account of its long struggle against the forces of Ali Pasha of Janina, at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The political condition of Epirus, or Southern Albania, previous to that epoch, was very peculiar. The... | |
| 1842 - 1046 pages
...become an historical name on account of its long struggle against tlie forces of Ali Pasha of Janina, at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The political condition of Epirus, or Southern Albania, previous to that epoch, was very peculiar. The... | |
| 1843 - 596 pages
...the manners of Germany ; in many respects, to those at the present day — in more, to those existing at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The Germans are generally unaware of the existence of such resemblances. They take their idea of England... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pages
...the manners of Germany ; in many respects, to those at the present day — in more, to those existing at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The Germans are generally unaware of the existence of such resemblances. They take their idea of England... | |
| 1843 - 602 pages
...the manners of Germany ; in many respects, to those at the present day — in more, to those existing at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. The Germans are generally unaware of the existence of such resemblances. They take their idea of England... | |
| Sir John Forbes - 1858 - 284 pages
...animal system in some way, were really as powerless in the cure of diseases as their predecessors. In the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, the expurgation of the Materia Medica from these imaginary specifics had advanced BO far, that of the hundreds... | |
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