...ship — " FLOATING BELL ! " •• And there into vice, witli some hundreds, 1 fell. * Ships of war at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, in the royal navy of England, were justly called, "jljating hells," from the vice and immorality prevailing...

...be out of place if we glance at the work performed by what are now termed the Reserve forces, during the close of the last and the commencement of the present century. To quote from Raike's "Reserve Forces," out of 80,626 militiamen, in the year 1798, 15,712 volunteered...

...come. Let us carry our thoughts a little up the stream of time, about coprolites and green sand. About the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, attendants at agricultural meetings might have seen a sturdy, plain-looking, but intelligent man, with...

...which seeks gratification in internal revolutions, or wars with other nations. Thus the great wars at the close of the last and the commencement of the present centuries appear to be natural events transpiring in order to restore the necessary equilibrium between...

...Chahta-Muskokee Nations — their Iliad and their Voluipa. One of these is Colonel Benjamin Hawkini, who, about the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, was United States Agent to the Creeks ; and was somewhat acquainted with their language, and familiar...

...investigating the alarming increase in pauperism, which, as indicated by the rise in the money value of relief, the close of the last and the commencement of the present century witnessed, I will, by permission of the Meeting, read a succinct account of the general law in regard...