...for feeding thousands of people of different castes during the famines which raged in Western India at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century. The benevolence of Sorabji Mancherji Readymoney is thus referred to in a Bombay newspaper, dated 1790 :...

...in Oxford, whose object it is to bring the Church of England back to the false position it occupied at the close of the last and the commencement of the present centuries, and to make it subservient to the purposes of a political party. We may feel confident that...

...theories which have preceded it, or which have taken ihe field against it. § 2. The wages-fund theory.— At the close of the last, and the commencement of the present, century both the state of the industrial world in England, and the method of economic speculation then coming...

...at the commencement of the century was under 300, was 880 in 1887. The political storms which marked the close of the last and the commencement of the present century gave the death-blow to not a few of the ancient universities of Germany. Mainz and Cologne ceased to...

...drawn. The ballads in which their exploits were told were sung by blind beggars at the village fairs at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, and thus these men of the mountain, whose lives were passed entirely in the open air, moving from range...

..." the gentlemen carpenter's yard," so many gentlemen carpenters having served their time with them. At the close of the last, and the commencement of the present century, the shipbuilding trade seems to have been in a flourishing condition, for — irrespective of the annual...

...by no means at a standstill. One beneficent effect of the materialistic spirit which overran Europe at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, was that the student of nature was thrown back more and more upon the search after fact — after truth,...

...by no means at a standstill. One beneficent effect of the materialistic spirit which overran Europe at the close of the last and the •commencement of the present century, was that the student of nature was thrown back more and more upon the search after fact — after truth,...

...history, and leave its teachings to the appreciation of acandid world. IVly sketcii must be rapid. At the close of the last and the commencement of the present century Cuba was prosperous and happy. Subjected to a colonial system identical with that then generally prevalent...

...with Europe, such experiences grew in frequency just when the captures by pirates began to decrease. At the close of the last and the commencement of the present century the wrecks upon the coasts of Sus and the Draa grew especially numerous, and many are the records that...