...profitable on a large scale. Although the advance of scientific knowledge was very marked during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth, there was a strong feeling that knowledge for its own sake was the true ideal to be striven for, and to make...

...Ashby's monograph on the working of the poor law in the south Warwickshire village of Tysoe during the greater part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth is equally interesting, despite the fact that it deals with a subject much more familiar. Based in...

...of "fractur," or illuminated handwriting on paper or parchment. PURPOSE AND SORTS During the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth this art flourished vigorously in the counties inhabited by the Pennsylvania Germans, and illuminated...

...Temple, County Westmeath, Ireland, where his grandfather, Thomas Seery, was a miller during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth, dying in 1839. He and his wife, who before her marriage was a Miss Clark, and the daughter of the Episcopalian...

...efforts of prison reformers like John Howard,1 Samuel Romilly, and Elizabeth Fry, who, during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century, endeavored to better these conditions.2 These prison conditions led inevitably to the physical...

...flatboat came AN EARLY TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP 302 into use on the Ohio and Mississippi. During the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth nearly all the adventurous men of the West near the Ohio River took part in flatboat movements. Many...

...1,800 or 2,000 relate in some way or other to the history of Florida and Louisiana during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth. Here the English and French originals of the Spanish translations, found in the regularly accessible...

...settled in 1626, by a company of "planters" under the leadership of Roger Conant. During the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth, it was a leading seaport, and during the Revolution and the War of 1812 Salem privateers were an active...

...co-operation are found in the cooperative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth. The oldest of these is the Society of Shakers which was established at New Lebanon, New York State,...

...Diderot, and Hoibar.h in France were outspoken in their materialism of the attributive kind. The latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century were characterized by a strong antimatcrialistic reaction, to be followed again in the middle...