...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...

...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...

...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...

...well be conceived. 116 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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...and the prurient. Pearse we cannot trace back farther than to the year 1719, but he also survived to the end of the last or the beginning of the present century. A Richard Saunder, or Saunders, published a work upon physiognomy, chiromancy, &c., in 1653, and an...

...Gordon's History of Scots Affairs, vol. i. appendix to the preface, no iv., pp. [1.] — [lxii.J .] 3 [" There is a tradition here, that Mary, Queen of...sold it to William Lord Braco, father of the present THE SHIRES OF ABERDEEN AND BANFF. Decreitt for the teyndis of the kirk of Rothymay-1 (11 October 1490.)...

...comparatively recent acquisition on the part of the college, and are mostly copies of older MSS., made about the end of the last or the beginning of the present century. The mass of them formerly belonged to Mr. John Bentley, author of An Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy,...