...primitive theocratic civilisations of the Oriental world, of Egypt and Asia. The view largely prevalent, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, was that these social organisations were the surviving monuments of a high primitive culture. In the...

...the elder, "there is no duty in the case ; it was taken oS glass by the late Act." HE WOULD NOT DINE. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, few of the great London merchants (says Boyd) had their private residences in the West End. They lived...

...Entomology, and some of whose papers appeared in the ' Transactions ' of our Linnean Society quite at the end of the last, and beginning of the present, century. He was related by marriage to M. Planchon, the wellknown Professor of Botany at Montpellier. If I mistake...

...though very erroneously. " Slang " is not necessarily "cant," and "cant" is not necessarily "slang." At the end of the last and beginning of the present century it was the fashion to call the peculiar jargon once known as " cant " by the name of flash. That also...

...of curates in charge to very few ; but, on the other hand, with the great increase of the population at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, the incumbents of populous parishes began to engage the services of curates, not to supply their place,...

...judgment, but was allowed to be so by Mr. Price's bailiff, who was well acquainted with its produce." At the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, William Curtis — referred to by George Sinclair in his " Hortus Graminens Woburnensis " as " the...

...occupier of Creslow Pastures, near Whitchurch ; was a leading exhibitor at the Smithfield Fat Cattle Shows at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. He was the first grazier in this district to introduce a system of conveying fat cattle to the London...

...scored, July 4, do. ALEXANDER, JOHANN (or, according to Fétis, JOSEPH), violoncellist, lived at Duisburg at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. He was distinguished more for the beauty of his tone and the excellence of his style than for any great...

...is probably under 100,000. Later writers also, including Colonel Symes, wrote in a similar strain, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, on the desolation of Ava while Amarapura was in the height of its glory. There are numerous temples,...

...beautifully clear hand, a characteristic also of the royal brothers, as, in fact, of most of the gentlemen at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. " Having decided on the first principle of arrangement — namely, that it was to be chronological...