...XVIH. MODERN FEMALE POETS — MRS. TIGHE — MRS. HEMANS. — MISS LANDON — MRS. JOANNA BAILLIE. TOWARDS the end of the last century, and the beginning of the present, we had a number of female writers who, in the exercise of the highest imaginative and descriptive power,...

...unfavourable influences ; but they do not invalidate the general truth, that in Dissenting schools, towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present, classical instruction was of limited extent and inferior quality. Little attention was paid to the...

...menaced the coasts of Great Britain, the citizens rose and ran to arms in order to repulse the invader. Towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present, events aroused, together with the latent forces of the nation, the example of what their ancestry had...

...English Church besides Evangelicalism. But the national importance of the English Evangelical movement, towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present, is now universally recognised. Now, in Scotland there was a corresponding movement — with this difference,...

...name into disrepute. In what form, he asks, did Locke's philosophy present itself to European critics towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present ? " In that," he says, " of the shallowest set of " doctrines which perhaps were ever passed off "...

...name into disrepute. In what form, he asks, did Locke's philosophy present itself to European critics towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present? " In that," he says, "of the shallowest set of doctrines which perhaps were ever passed off upon a...

...name into disrepute. In what form, he asks, did Locke's philosophy present itself to European critics towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present ? " In that," he says, " of " the shallowest set of doctrines which perhaps were ever " passed off...

...name into disrepute. In what form, he asks, did Locke's philosophy present itself to European critics towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present ? " In that," he says, " of " the shallowest set of doctrines which perhaps were ever " passed off...

...give their owners great influence over the representation of Cockermouth and the West of Cumberland. Towards the end of the last century, and the beginning of the present one, the Wyndhams, Earls of Egremout, were indeed somewhat supine in exercising their influence, and...

...scepticism. Avowed and reasoned free thought has never been very common in Ireland,2 and the Irish literature towards the end of the last century and the beginning of the present is full of the usual denunciations of scepticism, and the usual depreciation of 1 A contemporary Irish...