| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 páginas
...chiefly taken place ; and I have little doubt, that in estimating the decrease of the population, since the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, by the proportion of births at the different periods, they have fallen into the error which has been... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 páginas
...chiefly taken place ; and I have little doubt, that in estimating the decrease of the population, since the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, by the proportion of births at the different periods, they have fallen into the error which has been... | |
| Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 páginas
...communications by my friends, or from the county surveys, and other works, published either towards the end of the last or the beginning of the present century. Of the surveys, that of Kilkenny, Air. Tighe, appears on this head to be copious and correct. Those... | |
| Nathaniel MORREN - 1813 - 132 páginas
...can well be conceived. tion? But I will go back even to a period antecedent to the year 1833. Take the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, before there was that general revival and spread of evangelical religion which took place about twenty... | |
| 1839 - 826 páginas
...a straight line, or a very eccentric ellipse ; that an apparent maximum of distance was attained in the end of the last or the beginning of the present century ; and that, about twenty years hence, the stars will probably be seen very near each other, or in apparent... | |
| John Gordon Lorimer - 1841 - 648 páginas
...influence of evangelical religion. Surely no one acquainted with Scotland can imagine that there was in the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, as great a thirst for sound and devotional theology as we have seen to prevail at the present day.... | |
| Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 1847 - 516 páginas
...xvii., cap. xxxvi.) Next to the Abernethies, a family of Gordons were proprietors of Rothiemay till the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, when it was purchased by Ogilvie, whose son sold it to William Lord Braco, father of the present THE... | |
| 1850 - 418 páginas
...into a straight line or very excentric ellipse ; that an apparent maximum of distance was attained in the end of the last or the beginning of the present century ; and that about twenty years hence the stars will probably be seen very near each other, or in apparent... | |
| 1853 - 222 páginas
...the city. Certain modern tourists, merely following Du Paty, Kotzebue, and Madame de Stael, who wrote at the end of the last or the beginning of the present century, have been guilty of error and of injustice in describing this city as still swarming with lazy half-naked... | |
| 1855 - 802 páginas
...all that was really new and valuable in the Noctes when first published to the world. Going back to the end of the last, or the beginning of the present century, a very decided confliction of opinion existed on the subject of literary criticism. One set of critics... | |
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