...the name of a brisk dance, of French origin, performed by eight persons. It was common in Scotland at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, continuing fashionable till superseded by the quadrille, whicli is only a new variety of the cotillon....

...Sacrament, printed within borders, imperfect 2Amo. in 1 vol. 2471 French Chap-Books, mostly issued at Troyes at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, many duplicates . 18mo. and smaller, a parcel 2472 Frend (W.) Two Addresses, St. Ives, 1788-89, with...

...distress. These are only a few instances out of many which occurred during his long life. Caithness was, at the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, one of the least improved and most uncultivated counties of Scotland. It remained nearly in the rude...

...under-petticoat), the name of a brisk dance, of French origin, performed by eight persons. It was common in ScoUand at the end of the last and beginning of the present century, continuing fashionable till superseded by the quadrille, which is only a new variety of the cotillon....

...avoided by assuming the independent attitude and occupying the lofty position of the older writers. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, for example, it was no doubt the intention of such chemists as Macquer, Lavoisier, Davy, and Th6nard...

...From these different sources a new desire was awakened for an elder and severer style of architecture. At the end of the last and beginning of the present century, war and political agitation prevailed to such an extent, as to prove extremely unfavorable to the progress...

...subjected, as described by Dr. Willard, is only to be compared with their worst treatment in Europe at the end of the last and beginning of the present century." Every philanthropist will gladly witness as many such reproaches, and as bitter ones as may be necessary...

...the ass was Missing ! " 140. "Then, John, I shall not dine with you to-day, you may depend upon it." At the end of the last and beginning of the present century few of the great London merchants had their private residences in the West End. They lived chiefly...

...and the other two generally at right angles to this. Rustic quoins were much used in brick buildings at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Rustic work is a mode of building in imitation of simple nature, rather than allowing the work to have...

...the History of the Roman Republic, who had lived at Hallyards, in the parish of Manor, Peeblesshire, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century. From his acquaintance with the Fergusons, Scott, when travelling to Carlisle in 1797, paid a passing...